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ecosystems functioning / vegetation dynamics

Global vegetation monitoring from active and passive microwave sensors (GVMAP)

Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Samuel Favrichon. Vegetation is a central component of the Earth’s system, governing surface water exchanges and constituting one of the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Ongoing disturbances, whether natural or human-induced, combined with the impacts of changing climate, induce rapid alterations on a global scale. Accurate and consistent assessments of …

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EO AFRICA F2F Training: Assessing vegetation dynamics from space with cloud-based EO analyses

November 19, 2023 - November 23, 2023

The F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Cairo, Egypt in close collaboration with the National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS). In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based techniques for assessing vegetation dynamics with Earth Observation data. The training includes face-to-face lecturing and reading …

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Javier Pacheco-Labrador

Javier Pacheco-Labrador is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) in Germany. He is interested in understanding ecosystem properties, functions, biodiversity, and responses to the environment from space. Javier confronts models and data to improve models, methods, and assimilation schemes and answer ecological questions regarding ecosystems’ adaptation to climate change. He …

Ground Reference Observations Underlying Novel Decametric Vegetation Data Products from Earth Observation – GROUNDED EO

Prime company: University of Salford (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Luke Brown. Ground Reference Observations Underlying Novel Decametric Vegetation Data Products from Earth Observation (GROUNDED EO) aims to exploit cutting-edge machine learning approaches, ground data collection capabilities, and data fusion methods to develop improved decametric vegetation biophysical products from Sentinel-2 and -3, ultimately facilitating better environmental decision making. The …

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Integrated Remote Sensing for Biodiversity-Ecosystems Function – IRS4BEF

Prime company: MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (DE) and CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS – CSIC (ES)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Javier Pacheco. The combination of information provided by different optical and thermal spaceborne imagers can give complementary information about vegetation plant biodiversity and ecosystem functions to understand their links (BEF relationships) better. However, how integrating multi-mission information in this context remains unclear. Therefore, IRS4BEF wants to solve relevant methodological …

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ESA CARBON SCIENCE CLUSTER – Research Opportunities 1: Near-Real-Time CARBON EXTREMES

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (GB)

There is a need for comprehensive, accurate, and low-latency information on land carbon fluxes to be underpinned by high resolution remote-sensing datastreams. A key policy-relevant challenge for the scientific community is the lack of a rapid quantification of carbon losses from recent mega droughts or fires despite numerous observations being available. The Near-Real-Time (NRT) Carbon …

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Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration Consultation Survey Results

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 …

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

January 23, 2023 - January 27, 2023
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, funded by the ESA, is taking an innovative approach to predicting seasonal wildfire patterns in Europe. SeasFire uses cutting-edge technology, such as modern deep learning models and Earth Observation data, to explore the spatio-temporal connections between atmospheric conditions and fire regimes to gain valuable insights into predicting potential wildfires. The project aligns …

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