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Coastal Blue Carbon: User Consultation Meeting

April 8 - April 10
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Coastal Blue Carbon project consortium are organising a three-day User Consultation Meeting on coastal blue carbon monitoring from 8–10 April 2026 at ESA ESRIN in Frascati, Italy. This event brings together practitioners from public institutions, research organisations, NGOs, and international initiatives to share results from the project in …

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2nd Ocean Carbon from Space workshop

November 24, 2025 @ 09:00 - November 26, 2025 @ 17:00 UTC+2

Background Quantifying the ocean carbon budget and its response to anthropogenic forcing is a major goal in climate research. The ocean has absorbed about a quarter of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions while the proportion of carbon uptake has increased relative to emissions. However, our understanding of ocean carbon pools, processes that modulate them, and interactions with …

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Satellite-based tools for investigating aquatic ecosystems 2023

This post contains educational material from the 2023 ‘Satellite-based tools for investigating aquatic ecosystems’ online training course. It was held as a precursor to the Trevor Platt Science Foundation Symposium, and was run for 4 months from April – July 2023. The lectures can also be found on YouTube by clicking here. Access specific videos …

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AQUA SUP

Prime company: EOMAP GMBH & CO.KG (DE)

Six new Sentinel Expansion missions are being developed to tackle prospective societal challenges such as global warming and its impact on nature and humans, urbanisation and food security. The combined data exploitation of these missions allows for the definition of new applications bringing benefit to their end-users and thereby addressing EU policies and gaps in …

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BioSpace25 – Biodiversity insight from Space

February 10, 2025 @ 13:00 - February 14, 2025 @ 17:00 UTC+2
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

BACKGROUND BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) across the various dimensions of biodiversity, and addressing the use of Earth Observations in all realms, from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal to marine ecosystems. It is the first edition of a series of BIOSPACE conferences that ESA and its partners intend to organise on …

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Advancing Lagrangian modelling with satellite-derived oceanic flow fields

From October 30 to November 6, 2024, the Science Hub of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati, Italy, hosted an international workshop titled Grounding Lagrangian particles in satellite-derived oceanic flow fields. Organized in the framework of the 4DMED-Sea project the event convened 16 participants, including 11 senior experts and 5 early-career researchers from France, …

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Space for Shore: Sentinel-1 reveals Arctic glacier retreat

The Space for Shore project has revealed trends in Arctic glacier retreat and calving intensity, with notable impacts observed in regions like Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Using over 1,000 radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, scientists monitored the evolution of Svalbard’s coastal glaciers between 2015 and 2023. The study highlights a statistically defined mapping of summer …

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Assessment of wave energy resource in the European and Mediterranean coastal zones using high resolution altimetry products – WAPOSAL

Prime company: INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO (PT)

The project’s primary objective is to evaluate the potential of wave renewable energy sources in coastal zones of Europe, Mediterranean and archipelagos where the energy can be efficiently harnessed. To achieve this objective, the project is processing the whole CryoSat, Sentinel-3A, and Sentinel-3B missions data over specific coastal zones and using the advanced SAMOSA+ retracker …

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EO for Africa Symposium 2024

September 23, 2024 @ 09:00 - September 26, 2024 @ 13:00 UTC+2
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background ESA is pleased to announce the organization of the 2024 EO for Africa Symposium in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE), the European Commission (EC), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The …

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Dedicated dredge plume monitoring with EO (PLUMES)

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

Dredging operations are essential to protect coastlines, safe navigation and ensuring access to harbours. With threats of sea level rise, flooding and more extreme storms, the need for dredging operations will only increase and their sustainable implementation will be key. Clients are ever more aware of the need for a sustainable dredging operation and also …

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