Development and testing of novel Deep Learning based methods for detection and classification of priority features of interest (tents, vehicles, rotary wing aircraft etc).
Twenty years after ESA’s 2003 workshop on Coastal and Marine applications of SAR (ESA SP-565), the SeaSAR workshop is returning to Svalbard from 2-6 May 2023. The format of the workshop will be similar to the 2003 workshop and will be organized around keynote presentations and thematic discussions. The following targeting themes will be addressed: …
Ethiopia is the largest wheat producer in sub–Saharan Africa, but also a hot spot for wheat rust diseases. Based on wheat rust surveillance on the ground, the Ethiopian Wheat Rust Early Warning and Advisory System (EWAS) was established by a consortium of national and international partners including Cambridge University, UK Met Office, and CIMMYT. This …
In Q4 2022, ESA organised an open Information Day to address Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)/ Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) with presentations on the potential of EO in support to ecosystems restoration and conservation. The event was attended by around 60 CSOs/NGOs. The Consultation was complemented with a questionnaire circulated to participants and interested stakeholders to capture …
Following the public release of the beta version Green Transition Information Factory (GTIF) demonstrator for Austria one month ago, ESA and the Austrian BMK Ministry invited various Green Transition implementers for a GTIF user consultation workshop in Vienna on March 6th . More than 125 people from over 40 different organisations attended the event taking …
Introduction and Objectives The European Space Agency, ESA, is organising the EO Science for Society Info Days to introduce activities in FutureEO-1 Segment 2 Block 4 “EO Science for Society”. The main goals of these Info Days will be to present the upcoming opportunities for European entities to participate in the activities of the ongoing …
Following the successful 2022-2023 call for research proposals, the EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched in September 2022 a 2nd call for proposals. The aim of this call is to extend the support to African-European collaborative research efforts in the domain of …
EW-Explore is a pilot project to investigate interferometric (InSAR) applications of Sentinel-1 (S1) Extra Wide mode (EW) beyond the ocean- and sea ice applications where this mode was designed for.
The SDG Pathfinder project – EO for Sustainable Forest Management will develop and showcase in partnership with the custodian agency FAO innovative EO approaches to produce indicators on the sustainable management of natural, semi-natural and planted forests. It will benefit from improved data availability to support the SDG 15 Life on Land with the SDG …
