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Trans-Atlantic Training 2020 (TAT-8): Earth Observation of land cover/land use change in the era of big data (POSTPONED)

June 11 - June 15
Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center (KEDEA), 3ης Σεπτεμβρίου, Πανεπιστημιούπολη
Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece

Course postponed until further notice Updated 20/04/2020:  In view of the recent developments related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the direction from the respective health authorities, the Trans-Atlantic Training 2020 (TAT-8) “Earth Observation of Land Cover/Land Use Change in the Era of Big Data”, originally planned for 11-15 June 2020,  has been postponed. The future …

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Space key to wetland conservation

Wetlands worldwide are vanishing at an alarming rate. Read how Earth Observation helps to quantify and describe such changes as well as identify their causes in the article published on the occasion of recent World Wetlands Day.

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IV ESA EARSEL CNR School: Remote Sensing for Forest Fires

Educational materials from the IV ESA EARSEL CNR School: Remote Sensing for Forest Fires held in Rome, Italy, on 3-5 October 2019. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link. Introduction to ESA EO Programme and to ESA CCI Programme in the context of Fire (S.Plummer/F.Sarti, …

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IV ESA EARSEL CNR School: Remote Sensing for Forest Fires

September 30, 2019 - October 1, 2019
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

ESA, CNR and EARSeL organised a course dedicated to exploiting data from active and passive Earth Observation sensors for applications related to forest fires, and to discuss relevant research methods and technologies. The course was held on the occasion of the workshop “12th EARSeL Forest Fires SIG Workshop” (3-5 October 2019, Rome, Italy). The programme …

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SenSPa – Sentinels for Sustainable Pasture Management

Prime company: KARTECO ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY (GR)

Grasslands are a major part of the global ecosystem, covering 37 % of the earth’s terrestrial area. For a variety of reasons, mostly related to overgrazing and the resulting problems of soil erosion and weed encroachment, many of the world’s natural grasslands are in poor condition and showing signs of degradation. There is general agreement …

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Trans-Atlantic Training 2019 (TAT-7): Radar and Optical Remote Sensing in the Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring

June 20, 2019 - June 24, 2019
University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3
Novi Sad, 21000 Serbia

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 Charles University of Prague. This training was the seventh in the series of TAT courses. This edition focused on Earth Observation from optical and radar sensors …

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Sentinel-1 Interferometric Coherence for Vegetation and Mapping (SINCOHMAP)

Prime company: DARES TECHNOLOGY (ES)

SINCOHMAP is an ESA SEOM project with the objective of developing, analysing and validating novel methodologies for land cover & vegetation mapping using Sentinel-1 Interferometric Coherence Evolution. One of the main objectives of the project is to quantify the impact in using S-1 InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data relative to traditional land cover and vegetation mapping …

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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 …

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