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 …
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.
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 …
Educational materials from the 9th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2019 (focus on Agriculture) held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on 16-20 September 2019. Access specific videos (click on ) – presentation slides (click on ) – and exercise data (click on ) from the lessons here below or access the full video playlist …
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 …
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 …
The Pannonian basin is a sheltered region, with relatively low levels of precipitation (< 600 mm/year), therefore its surrounding mountains are considered a key water source. Over the last decades several drought episodes took place. Scientific research groups with cross-border cooperation on drought monitoring and management were established including the Drought Management Centre for South-Eastern …
Educational materials from the Trans-Atlantic Training 2019 (TAT-7) held in Novi Sad, Serbia, on 20-24 June 2019. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the link on the left side window. Introduction to ESA EO Missions (focus on SAR missions), F. Sarti (554 MB) Reminders of SAR Theory …
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 and Eastern Europe (SCERIN). This training was the seventh in …
The Science and Applications with Sentinel-2 special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment has been completed with the last paper published on 5 April 2019. It features a selection of 28 key papers covering a wide range of new applications monitoring natural and human-induced dynamic processes up to national and even continental scale at high-resolution. …
