Tags: ecosystems/vegetation, forestry, water resources
ecosystems functioning / vegetation dynamics
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
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 …
BAMS-MAZOVIA: Built-up Areas Monitoring Service for Mazovia
Prime company: Geosystems Polska (PL)The project created a service platform providing reliable information on changes in built-up areas, derived from Sentinel-2 data in a fully automatic manner using image classification algorithms. These algorithms, selected for the tool, are successfully operated and validated in other Land Cover mapping activities conducted by the consortium partners. Results of the image classification contributed …
SDG 15.2.1 EO Pathfinder – EO for Sustainable Forest Management
Prime company: IABG MBH (DE)The SDG Pathfinder project – EO for Sustainable Forest Management will develop and showcase in partnership with the custodian agency FAO innovative EO approaches to produce indicators on the sustainable management of natural, semi-natural and planted forests. It will benefit from improved data availability to support the SDG 15 Life on Land with the SDG …
PEOPLE – Ecosystem Restoration
Prime company: HATFIELD CONSULTANTS (CA)The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration focus on the restoration of ecosystems on a large scale to achieve the United Nations sustainable development agenda in 2030. The PEOPLE Ecosystem Restoration project will develop innovative products and indicators determining and monitoring processes, both degradation and/or recovery. In several pilot sides in various ecosystems like boreal peatland …
BiomAP
Prime company: GAMMA REMOTE SENSING AG (CH)The BiomAP project aims to Integrate active and passive microwave data towards a novel global record of aboveground biomass maps. This comprises an end-to-end assessment of active and passive microwave observations at coarse spatial resolution at the longest wavelengths available in space to generate global AGB estimates. This work will eventually provide a 5-years baseline, …
EO AFRICA – Water Resources Management (WRM)
Prime company: Planetek Italia (IT)The project plans to estimate crop water stress and evapotranspiration, exploiting ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data by experimental EO analysis techniques. Expected outcome: an open source innovative model will be developed to assess actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) using EO-derived crop coefficient (Kc) and crop water stress index (CWSI). The solution will be integrated into a web …
EO AFRICA Water Stress and Climate Indices for Africa – WASCIA
Prime company: TELESPAZIO VEGA UK LIMITED (GB)‘Water Stress and Climate Indices for Africa’ (WaSCIA) is an ESA funded project that aims to deliver high-quality Water Stress and Climate Indices through an easy-to-use web interface to help the management of drought and water stress in Africa. The project is led by Telespazio UK with the partnership of RSS-Hydro, Telespazio France, AGRHYMET (Centre Regional de Formation et d’Application en Agrométéorologie …
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 …
EO AFRICA F2F Training #5: Cloud based EO analyses for Water and Food Security
November 7, 2022 - November 11, 2022
The 5th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Nairobi, Kenya in close collaboration with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources or Development (RCMRD). In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based image analysis techniques for Water and Food Security. The training includes face-to-face lecturing and reading …