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EO4SD Agriculture capacity building workshop – second edition

February 11 - February 15
ILRI, P.O. Box 5689
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Following the fruitful first series of trainings organised last year in different cities and countries of the globe, the Agriculture Cluster is conducting the second edition of local workshops starting in Ethiopia in February. The five-day training event is focusing on the practical implementation of the knowledge and insights gained during the 2018 edition. It is an excellent occasion …

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ESA/CONAE L/C/X band SAR Training Course

Educational materials from the ESA/CONAE L/C/X band SAR Training Course held in Argentina on 12-17 November 2018. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link. Introduction ESA EO Intro, FSarti (23.6 MB) SAOCOM, LFrulla (9.81 MB) Vegetation  Vegetation_CSchmullius_theory (36.7 MB) Vegetation_ACastro_exercises (SNAP: Sentinel-1, ALOS PALSAR, ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, …

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ESA/CONAE L/C/X band SAR Training Course

November 12, 2018 - November 17, 2018

ESA and CONAE organised a SAR course in preparation of CONAE’s SAOCOM mission. The topics focused on demonstrating the combined use of X/C/L band SAR data for a variety of applications (including vegetation monitoring, disaster mapping and cryosphere)  and using different techniques (among which InSAR and Polarimetry). This training addressed 70 Argentinian users with previous …

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EO4SD Agriculture info session at the WorldBank

September 27, 2018 - September 28, 2018
WorldBank HQ, Washington D.C., Connecticut Avenue - K Street
Washington, United States

The European Space Agency and the World Bank are jointly organising a 2-day knowledge sharing and capacity enhancement event on satellite Earth Observation applications in agriculture and rural development. Download the final agenda.

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EO4SD Agriculture info session at the WorldBank

The European Space Agency and the World Bank are jointly organising a 2-day knowledge sharing and capacity enhancement event on satellite Earth Observation applications in agriculture and rural development. The meeting will take place on 27 and 28 September 2018 at the World Bank premises in Washington D.C. The 2-day event explores the utility and …

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How much water is used for irrigation?

Feeding a growing global population is a major concern, but efforts to grow more food will place an added burden on precious supplies of freshwater. New research shows how measurements of soil moisture from space could be used to understand how much water is used for agriculture and potentially help farmers manage consumption. A new …

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8th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing

September 10, 2018 - September 14, 2018
University of Leicester, University Road
Leicester, United Kingdom

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) for science and applications development. Post graduate, PhD students, post-doctoral research scientists and users from European countries and Canada …

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Stay tuned with the Sen4CAP project progress

The Sen4CAP project is aimed at providing validated algorithms, products, workflows and best practices for agriculture monitoring, relevant for the management of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).   Read the first Sen4CAP newsletter featuring: Why we think you’ll be interested 1st Evidence Review The New CAP Monitoring Approach Crop Diversification Use Case Agricultural Practices …

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GEORICE (DUE Innovator III Series)

Prime company: UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE III – PAUL SABATIER (FR)

The GEORICE innovator addresses research priorities within the Group of Earth Observation Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative related to SAR techniques for rice monitoring. The project developed and demonstrated EO products for crop rice stage monitoring based on the high temporal frequency of Sentinel-1 over the Mekong delta to derive statistics of rice planted area …

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Sentinel-2 for Agriculture (DUE)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN (BE)

The Sen2-Agri project is designed to develop, demonstrate and facilitate the Sentinel-2 time series contribution to the satellite EO component of agriculture monitoring at national scale. The project will demonstrate the benefit of the Sentinel-2 mission for the agriculture domain across a range of crops and agricultural practices. The project objectives are to provide validated …

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