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EO AFRICA F2F Training #6: Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space

January 23 - January 27
CRASTE-LF, Sis EMI, Av. Ibn Sina
Rabat, 10090 Morocco

The 6th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Rabat, Morocco at CRASTE-LF (African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology in French Language). This course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on vegetation and drought monitoring based on satellite EO data. It will focus both …

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting Workshop (EO4EA 2022)

November 28, 2022 - December 1, 2022

The 2022 Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA 2022) is organized by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Environmental-Economic Account section of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting initiative of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO EO4EA). Background The System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) provides …

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SeasFire: Earth System Deep learning for Seasonal Fire Forecasting in Europe 

Prime company: NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS (GR)

The SeasFire project aims to explore and capture potential spatio-temporal asynchronous links happening between pre-occurring and non-overlapping atmospheric conditions and European fire regimes to predict the seasonal burned areas sizes in Europe by leveraging two major advancements of our time: a) the availability of a huge amount of satellite data with a good spatio-temporal resolution, …

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Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration: Open Information and Consultation Day for CSOs/NGOs

October 14, 2022 @ 09:30 - 12:30 UTC+2

Introduction and Objectives The Sixth IPCC Assessment Report highlighted that the rise in weather and climate extremes has led to some irreversible impacts as natural and human systems are being pushed beyond their ability to adapt. Restoration of degraded ecosystems is key to mitigate the impacts of climate change, as healthy and resilient ecosystems are …

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Artificial Intelligence for SAR at High Resolution (AI4SAR HighRes)

Prime company: ICEYE OY (FI)

AI4SAR is an attempt to harness AI techniques for high-resolution, high-fidelity SAR data, both in time and spatially. It aims to process rapid-revisit SAR data  and develop modular applications for high-frequency monitoring of Earth.  The inherent complexity of the backscattered SAR signal presents a daunting challenge to data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers, thereby increasing …

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Users

ESA invites CSOs / NGOs to an Open Information and Consultation Day on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration

The European Space Agency (ESA) invites all civil society organisations (CSOs) / non governmental organisation (NGOs) with an environmental focus to a knowledge-sharing webinar to discuss the potential of Earth Observation (EO) data exploitation for ecosystem conservation and restoration. The webinar is part of an Open Consultation process with CSOs / NGOs. This is an …

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4th EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Course: Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space

September 19, 2022 - October 14, 2022

This online course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on vegetation and drought monitoring based on satellite EO data. It will introduce the general concept of EO-based vegetation/drought monitoring, show the different types of potentially useful EO data, highlight relevant satellite sensors and freely available data products as well as explain …

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Invitations to Tender

Invitation to Tender: “WorldPeatland”

Globally peatlands store 550 Gt Carbon, which is 30% of terrestrial carbon and twice the carbon stored in forests. Based on requirements from user organisations within the Global Peatland Initiative GPI the project objectives are improved mapping and monitoring of intact, degraded and cultivated peatlands for conservation, management and restoration worldwide. Learn more about this …

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Users Workshops

EO for Ecosystem Accounting workshop: submit your abstract!

Abstract submission is now open (12 Jul – 12 Sep) for the upcoming online workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting 2022, to take place in the afternoons (13:00 – 17:00 CET Rome time, 07:00 – 11:00 NY time) from 28 Nov to 1 Dec. The workshop will feature invited talks, open sessions with oral …

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Training and Education

Free online EO learning for everyone

Most recent add-on to the collection of online MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) dedicated to Earth observation data, techniques and applications is Land in Focus, launched last 4 October. This MOOC, funded by ESA, has been developed by experts from various internationally renowned institutes such as EOS Jena, WUR Wageningen, RUB Bochum, FSU Jena, Sinergise, …

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