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ESA PolInSAR – Biomass 2026 – 12th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, 6thBiomass Science Workshop and 1st Cal/Val meeting
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ESA Digital Twin Earth Components: Open Science Meeting 2026
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8th Advanced Training Course on Radar Polarimetry
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Land Cover Change Detection and Monitoring Methodologies Based on the Combined Use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for Natural Resources and Hazard Management.

Prime company: CLS COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES (FR)

The main objective of this R&D activity is to develop and validate novel methodologies for Land EO products based on the joint exploitation of Sentinel-1A SAR data and Sentinel-2A optical imagery. The outcome of the activity is intended to be the prototype implementation of a new change detection methodology for land cover and agricultural monitoring …

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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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5th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2019

Educational materials from the 5th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2019 held in Frascati, Italy, on 22-25 January 2019. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link. Welcome and EO missions  Welcome to ESA, D.Fernandez (6.2 MB) S1 mission, B.Rosich (6.2 MB) COSMO SkyMed Second …

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5th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2019

January 22, 2019 - January 25, 2019
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

The European Space Agency (ESA) organised the 5th Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists to exploit dual and fully polarimetric data for science and applications development. A total of 70 post-graduate, PhD students, post-doctoral research scientists and users from European countries and Canada interested in …

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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, …

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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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Outcomes of the Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing in Leicester

A full week is just over of training on the theory and applications of land remote sensing, ranging from the theoretical fundamentals and advanced concepts of spaceborne optical, thermal and microwave remote sensing to hands on use of software tools for a variety of applications including urban mapping, change detection, fire detection, forestry, vegetation monitoring, …

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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)

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 …

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8th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2018

September 10, 2018 - September 14, 2018
University of Leicester, University Road
Leicester, United Kingdom

The European Space Agency (ESA) organised an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) for science and applications development. The course was part of ESA’s EO Science for Society – Scientific Exploitation element of …

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GlobWetland Africa: Development of EO Tools for the Conservation, Wise-Use and Effective Management of Wetlands in Africa

Prime company: DHI GRAS A/S (DK)

GlobWetland Africa aims at facilitating the exploitation of satellite observations for the conservation, wise-use and effective management of wetlands in Africa, by providing African stakeholders with EO methods and tools to fulfil their Ramsar obligations and monitor the extent, integrity and conditions of their wetlands. The main project output is a free-of-charge and open-source toolbox …

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