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6th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2021

February 1, 2021 - February 5, 2021
Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, Route de Narbonne
Toulouse, 31330 France

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising the 6th Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists to exploit dual and fully polarimetric data for science and applications development. Post graduate, PhD students, post-doctoral research scientists and users from European countries and Canada interested in Radar Polarimetry, …

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EO for Agriculture under Pressure

October 5 - October 9

This will be an online event. 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 …

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WorldCereal – Global crop monitoring at field scale

Prime company: VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK VITO (BE)

The overarching goal of the WorldCereal project is to develop an open source EO solution for monitoring of global crop area extent, which can be exploited by a wide community of stakeholders involved in the agricultural sector and active over a range of scales – from national agricultural reporting, regional crop productivity management, up to …

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EO Industry Invitations to Tender

Invitation to Tender: “From Farm to Table. Supply Chain Management with Traceability and Verification”

There are significant opportunities to be explored in the context of “tracking and tracing” of agriculture commodities, in particular by the convergence of traditional EO information services with emerging distributed data, platforms and IoT sensor networks. These new concepts allow to demonstrate where the produce has originated, how it has been handled, how well it …

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Digital Transformation with Blockchain: Issue Brief

In April 2019 ESA has released a White Paper on “Blockchain and Earth Observation” to define the key focus areas for the EO community to explore in the context of the Space 4.0 and future digital engineering for space missions. This publication is a second installation of the “Issue Briefs” by the ESA Blockchain / …

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IRRIGATION+ EXPRO+

Prime company: CNR-RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR GEO-HYDROLOGICAL PROTECTION – IRPI (IT)

The project aims at advancing capabilities towards a quantitative, accurate and routine estimation of irrigation information by means of multi-mission satellite EO approaches: Irrigation mapping, quantifying the irrigation amount and detecting the seasonal timing of irrigation.

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SenCYF: Sentinel-2-based estimation and forecasting of winter wheat crop yield at field scale, with national coverage

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN (BE)

The SenCYF project proposes an innovative crop yield forecasting model based on Sentinel-2 data, validated with a France-wide in situ yield data set. It aims at addressing two core scientific questions: What are the performances of a nation-wide S2-based winter wheat yield estimation model at farm level? What are the performances of a nation-wide S2-based …

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Next Generation Drought Index Project Webinar

June 15 - June 16

The World Bank’s Crisis & Disaster Risk Finance (CDRF) team is coordinating the Next Generation of Drought Index Project (NGDI) effort, through a research consortium led by IRI and including IWMI and AIR Worldwide, to catalyze transformation of insurance development. With technical support from ESA, NGDI is developing a practical framework for a set of …

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