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12th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2022

June 27, 2022 - July 1, 2022
RTU Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Zundas Krasmala 10
Riga, 1048 Latvia

The European Space Agency (ESA) organised an Earth Observation (EO) training course in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, the Institute of Environmental Solutions and Riga Technical University. The course took place from 27 June – 1 July 2022 at the premises of the Riga Technical University, Faculty …

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Mapping Crops and their Biophysical Characteristics with Polarimetric SAR and Optical Remote Sensing

April 12, 2022 - May 3, 2022

Mapping crop types and assessing their characteristics is critical for monitoring food production, enabling optimal use of the landscape, and contributing to agricultural policy. Remote sensing methods based on optical and/or microwave sensors have become an important means of extracting information related to crops. Optical data is related to the chemical properties of the vegetation, …

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EO Africa Webinar #4: Evapotranspiration from Space

March 25, 2022 @ 14:00 - 15:00 UTC+2

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar is devoted to evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring with Earth Observation (EO) satellites. The webinar is going to have four parts: During the first 20 minutes, the concept of ET and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman (1948) – Monteith (1965) approach to its modelling will …

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EO Africa Webinar Series on EO for Water and Food Security

Developed in the context of the EO Africa project, this series of webinars covers a variety of topics related to the use of Earth Observation (EO) for topics related to water and food security. The recorded webinars, which consist of theoretical background, applications examples and Q&A session, are available here below. Access specific videos (click …

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Copernicus RUS Training Materials

Running from 2017 to December 2021, the Copernicus Research and User Support (RUS) service aimed to develop an online free-access platform to promote the uptake of Copernicus data and support the scaling up of educational and R&D activities. In particular, the service provided Copernicus data access, cloud computing resources, access to effective software tools and …

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Sentinels for Vegetation and Natural Disasters

Educational materials from the EO Training before the XIX SELPER International Symposium: Sentinels for Vegetation and Natural Disasters held online from 8-12 November 2021, with sessions mostly in Spanish. Materiales de formación del Curso de Formación en Observación de la Tierrra ligado al XIX Simposio Internacional de SELPER: Sentinelas para Vegetación y Desastres Naturales, que …

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EO Training before the XIX SELPER International Symposium: Sentinels for Vegetation and Natural Disasters (in Spanish)

November 8, 2021 - November 12, 2021

ESA and the Latin American Society of Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems (SELPER) organised a training course preceding the XIX International SELPER Symposium. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event took place in an online format. The theoretical and practical sessions were led by different experts coming from ESA, CONAE, CRECTEALC, NASA ARSET, NASA …

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Agricultural Crop Classification with Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical Remote Sensing

October 5, 2021 - October 19, 2021

For years, mapping of crop types and assessment of their characteristics has been carried out to monitor food security, inform optimal use of the landscape, and contribute to agricultural policy. High-quality crop mapping has become a requirement for most nations given its importance in national and international economics, trade, and food security, and is a …

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10th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2021

September 20, 2021 - September 24, 2021
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG), Jamova cesta 2
Ljubljana, Slovenia

EO and AI for Forestry   This course was dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts working in forestry domain to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science and applications development. The training included theory and hands-on sessions on the …

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