Tag: cryosphere
ArcticSummIT: Arctic Summer Ice Thickness
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (GB)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Jack Landy. Arctic-SummIT will deliver, for the first time, a sea ice thickness product during summer months from the ESA Cryosat-2 satellite. As the extent of Arctic sea ice has declined at unprecedented speed over the past few decades, we have been able to view only limited …
Bas Altena
“The Fellowship was my first independent project, which I perceived it as an encouragement to innovate and explore new avenues” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Bas got another research grant and continued working on optical remote sensing of glacier change, though along the way he discovered more opportunities exist, and has …
STSE CryoSat+ CryoTop Evolution
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (GB)The aim of the CryoTop Evolution is to generate L2, L3 and L4 products over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from swath processing of CryoSat SARIn mode data. The CryoTop datasets contain surface elevation generated from swath processing of CryoSat-2 measurement. The CryoTop datasets also contain gridded products generated from the swath derived elevation, …
Sentinel-3 for Science, Land Study 1: Snow
Prime company: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND (DK)This SEOM study is to develop, implement and validate algorithms for deriving several key snow parameters from Sentinel 3 optical satellite data, appropriate for addressing ESA’s Cryosphere challenge (Seasonal snow, lake/river ice and land ice, their effect on the climate system, water resources, energy and carbon cycles: the representation of terrestrial cryosphere in land surface, …
Sentinel-3 Performance Improvement for ICE Sheets (SPICE)
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT (GB)SPICE (Sentinel-3 Performance improvement for ICE sheets) is a 2-year study, which began in September 2015 and has been funded by ESA’s SEOM (Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions) program. The project aims to contribute to the development and evaluation of novel SAR altimetry processing methodologies over ice sheets, primarily using dedicated CryoSat-2 SAR acquisitions made …
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, …
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 …
10th ESA Training on Earth Observation 2018
September 17, 2018 - September 21, 2018
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (SCSTI),
Lamačská cesta 7315/8A, 811 04 Staré Mesto,
Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
The European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic organised a Training Course on Earth Observation, that took place from 17 – 21 September 2018 in the premises of the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (SCSTI) in Bratislava. The main aim of …
9th Earth Observation Summer School 2018
July 30, 2018 - August 10, 2018
ESA-ESRIN,
Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: European Space Agency (ESA) organises a series of summer schools on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation EO data across disciplines, with a specific focus on their assimilation into Earth System models. The two-week course, held in ESA/ESRIN (near Rome, Italy) from 30 July to 10 …