Tag: forestry
Invitation to Tender: “Support to R&D coordination for the Global Forest Observations Initiative”
The Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI) is an informal partnership to help coordinate international support to developing countries on forest monitoring and greenhouse gas accounting for REDD+ and related activities. Together with “Data Coordination”, “Methods and Guidance Documentation” and “Capacity Building”, the “R&D Coordination” is one of the four pillars of the GFOI. The purpose …
Sentinels for Vegetation and Natural Disasters
Educational materials from the EO Training before the XIX SELPER International Symposium: Sentinels for Vegetation and Natural Disasters held online from 8-12 November 2021, with sessions mostly in Spanish. Materiales de formación del Curso de Formación en Observación de la Tierrra ligado al XIX Simposio Internacional de SELPER: Sentinelas para Vegetación y Desastres Naturales, que …
EO Training before the XIX SELPER International Symposium: Sentinels for Vegetation and Natural Disasters (in Spanish)
ESA and the Latin American Society of Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems (SELPER) organised a training course preceding the XIX International SELPER Symposium. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event took place in an online format. The theoretical and practical sessions were led by different experts coming from ESA, CONAE, CRECTEALC, NASA ARSET, NASA …
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, …
S14SCIENCE AMAZONAS
Prime company: GISAT S.R.O. (CZ)PROJECT GOALS The dense spatial and temporal coverage of the Amazon basin with Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar scenes has opened vast potential for capturing the complexity in tropical forest loss and regrowth. Sentinel-1 for Science Amazonas aims to: Develop, test and validate an operational-level Multi-temporal forest Change Detection (MCD) algorithm, Estimate carbon loss and gain …
L-band Observations of Soil and Trees in Freezing/Thawing Conditions – LOSTinFTC
Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Anna Kontu. Passive microwave observations at L-band (1.4 GHz) can detect soil freeze/thaw status based on the differences in the electrical properties of ice and liquid water. This method is suitable for detecting autumn freezing, but during spring thawing the liquid water in melting snow confounds the signal from …
RUS webinar: Estimation of forest above-ground biomass using Sentinel 2 data
This webinar will use Sentinel-2 data to estimate the value of forest above-ground biomass in a forest area in Ethiopia. As a reference dataset it will use the publicly available database produced by the ESA Biomass Climate Change Initiative (BCCI), for the year 2017. Processing of the image will be done using a combination of …
10th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2021
Ljubljana, Slovenia
EO and AI for Forestry This course is dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts working in forestry domain to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science and applications development. The training will include theory and hands-on sessions on …
Monitoring, Measurement, Reporting and Verification System for Cocoa sector in the Dominican Republic
Prime company: GMV NSL LTD (GB)The MRV4C project, developing a Monitoring, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for cocoa agroforestry in the Dominican Republic (DR) was a 1-year activity funded by the European Space Agency through the Open Call funding opportunity, addressing activity line 6, “EO for Sustainable Development”, of the ESA EO SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY programme. The aim of …