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12th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2022
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Trans-Atlantic Training 2022 (TAT-9): A Changing Eastern Europe: New Challenges for Science and Capacity Building in Land Remote Sensing

September 5 - September 9
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6
Prague, Czech Republic

The deadline for the applications is 25th of July 2022 The purpose of the series of Trans-Atlantic Training (TAT) courses is to disseminate and discuss research methods and technologies from space. It is organised jointly by ESA, NASA and the Charles University of Prague, in close cooperation with the Regional Information Network for Southern, Central …

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12th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2022

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

Application deadline: 13 May 2022 The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising 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 will take place from 27 June – 1 July 2022 at the …

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EO Africa

24 May is Africa day at LPS22!

Join us during LPS22 in Bonn to learn about EO AFRICA and the latest research results in Africa. LPS22 is the key event in Earth Observation, organised every 3 years by ESA and gathering more than 3000 participants from any part of the world. During the 5-days event, the state of the art of scientific …

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Scientists

Mapping water use in agriculture

Within two years, the Irrigation+ project consortium published 16 peer-reviewed scientific papers which leverage advanced Earth observation algorithms and techniques for irrigation mapping, quantification and detection. An overview of main achievements – taking advantage of the exploitation of Copernicus Sentinel data – is provided in a webstory published today. Read the story.     Featured …

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Invitations to Tender Scientists

Invitation to Tender: “Agriculture science precursors”

With this ITT ESA wishes to open research opportunities focused on scientific priorities related to foods systems and in particular agriculture, aiming at exploring and exploiting the huge synergistic opportunities offered by the increasing EO European satellite capacity together with in situ observations, advanced models and novel technologies in order to enhance EO capacities to …

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

April 12 - May 3

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 Industry Permanently Open Call Users

Soybean futures: innovative use of EO in financial markets

The agricultural commodities market is one of the most active, liquid and vibrant markets in the world thanks to its mix of participants, ranging from individuals to farmers, commercial firms, large corporate companies and government institutions, accessing it from anywhere in the world. Soybeans and soybean by-products are the most-traded agricultural commodities, comprising more than …

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SPATIAL – Soybean Price forecAsting based on saTellite-derIved services and Artificial intelligence

Prime company: HYPERTECH S.A. (GR)

The main objective of SPATIAL is to provide a proof-of-concept (PoC) prototype for forecasting soybean futures contracts price moves using Artificial Intelligence models based on financial & macroeconomic features and Earth Observation products. SPATIAL is realizing two distinct Machine Learning (ML) models, one for soybean crop yield forecasting and one for prediction of soybeans futures …

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EO Africa Webinar #4: Evapotranspiration from Space

March 25 @ 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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