Course re-scheduled: Updated 23/07/2021: In view of the recent developments related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the direction from the respective health authorities, SELPER and the European Space Agency have schedule this course. It will take place in a fully online format from 8-12 November 2021. ESA and the Latin American Society of Remote Sensing …
The educational materials from the Agricultural Crop Classification with Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical Remote Sensing webinar series, held online from 5-19 October 2021 can be accessed from the link on the left menu. The training materials are available in English and Spanish, and include the recordings of the webinars, the theory presentations and the …
Scarcity of water resources is today a real issue in some geographic areas. Temperatures have increased by 0,85°C on average between 1880 and 2012 and could reach 4,8°C increase by 2100 compared to the period 1986-2005, according to the latest IPCC report. As one of the consequences, agriculture and viticulture are facing droughts at the …
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 …
Optimizing water resources is a real issue in some geographical area. Temperature have increased by 0,85°C on average between 1880 and 2012 and couldreach 4.8°C by 2100 compared to the period from 1986 to 2005, according to the last IPCC report. As a result, agriculture and viticulture are facing an increasing water scarcity at the …
Historically, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has represented the biggest share of the EU budget. From more than 70 percent of finances in the 1980s to about 40 percent, the CAP provides farmers with direct payments to make their businesses more profitable, reduce risks associated with weather and guarantee food supply chains across the continent. …
EO and AI for Forestry This course is 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 will include theory and hands-on sessions on …
Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants, in order to produce desired characteristics. Plant breeding has been practiced by farmers since the dawn of agriculture, as they selected plants for larger seeds, tastier fruits, and other valuable traits. In other words, the goals of plant breeding are to produce crop varieties …
The MRV4C project, developing a Monitoring, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for cocoa agroforestry in the Dominican Republic (DR) was a 1-year activity funded by the European Space Agency through the Open Call funding opportunity, addressing activity line 6, “EO for Sustainable Development”, of the ESA EO SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY programme. The aim of …
This webinar will demonstrate how data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 can serve the purpose of crop mapping using different types of classification algorithms (supervised and unsupervised) in the R language. The study area will be the Guadalquivir Marshes near Seville, Spain. The webinar will also show how to access the RUS environment to download, process, analyze and …
