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Trans-Atlantic Training 2020 (TAT-8): Earth Observation of land cover/land use change in the era of big data

June 11 - June 15
Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center (KEDEA), 3ης Σεπτεμβρίου, Πανεπιστημιούπολη
Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece

Trans-Atlantic-Training (TAT) is a series of annual workshops and training courses in Earth Observation, whose objective is to share and discuss advanced research methods and technologies from space during a series of meetings for scientists and students from both Europe and the USA. The eighth edition (TAT-8) will focus on the use of Earth Observation data …

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EO for Agriculture under Pressure

May 25 - May 29
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

The workshop is open to experts in EO for agriculture (science, commercial Service Providers, institutions) and end-users and stakeholders (International Organisations, food agencies, NGOs, agro-insurance, agro-industry, …). Its main objectives are to: Discuss the role of EO for supporting evidence-based decisions for improving food security at national to global scale Explore novel EO observation capabilities …

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Scientists

New rainfall products available

Accurate measurement of precipitation over the relevant space and time scales is  a challenge. The SMOS+RAINFALL project has the objective to ingest satellite soil moisture information derived from ASCAT, SMOS and SMAP into the latest state-of-the-art satellite precipitation products like those derived from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) to enhance rainfall observation accuracy over land. Access the datasets generated by …

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Sustainable Development

Towards deforestation-free commodities production

According to the World Economic Forum the production of agriculture commodities including palm oil, soy, beef, timber, cocoa and rubber are accounting for the majority of deforestation world-wide.  This ‘deforestation trajectory’ is directly associated with a growing carbon footprint of basic food staples therefore a wide range of new programmes and agribusinesses commitments emerge to …

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Platform Services

Aquaculture service pilot explained in short

 Hatfield Consultants, Canada have done a great work in explaining their EO Mangrove Service to support sustainable aquaculture development in this very beautiful 2-minutes video! Follow the Food Security TEP playlist on YouTube, more content will come up regularly! The video can also be accessed from the Food Security TEP videos page.

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Food Security Exploitation Platform (FS-TEP)

To support future sustainable and efficient farming and aquaculture, the FS-TEP addresses the needs of a heterogeneous user community, spanning from agriculture to aquaculture, from small-scale farmers to agricultural industry, from public science to the finance and insurance sectors, from local and national administration to international agencies. EO data plays a major role in understanding and managing …

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Scientists Training and Education

Hands-on training on agriculture at UCLouvain

The Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing: Agriculture is taking place now (16-20 September) at UCLouvain outside Brussels.  During the entire week 92 PhD students, postdocs, specialists and experts from international agencies and the European Commission are following lectures in the morning and doing hands-on exercises using software tools in the afternoon. The course …

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Advanced training course on Land remote sensing with the focus on Agriculture

September 16, 2019 - September 20, 2019
Université catholique de Louvain, Place de l'Université 1
Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

This course was dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts from agriculture and food security related agencies to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) for science and applications development in the domain of agriculture. Post graduate, PhD students, post-doctoral research scientists and professionals from European countries …

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