EOSAT 4 SUSTAINABLE AMAZON
Prime company: SARVISION BV (NL)EOSAT 4 Sustainable Amazon demonstrates near real time monitoring of forest disturbances in the Colombian Amazon to support the country in reaching its sustainable development goals.
Tag: forestry
CUSTOMISED FOREST ASSESSMENT SERVICE FOR INSURANCE (CASSIA)
Prime company: REACH-U (EE)CASSIA’s objective is to develop forest value assessment and temporal forest change detection monitoring service for insurances to detect e.g. storm and insect damages and provide damage evaluation and verification. Based on synergistic use of Sentinel-1 and -2 monitoring capabilities an early assessment of regional forest loss and related damage probability maps will be generated …
SENTINEL-1 FOR OBSERVING FORESTS IN THE TROPICS (SOFT)
Prime company: GLOBEO (FR)The world’s forests have undergone substantial changes in the last decades. Deforestation and forest degradation in particular, contribute greatly to these changes. In certain regions and countries, the changes have been more rapid, which is the case in the Greater Mekong sub-region recognized as deforestation hotspot. Effective tools are thus urgently needed to survey Illegal …
EO4SD – FOREST MANAGEMENT
Prime company: GAF AG (DE)The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) Initiative (http://eo4sd.esa.int), linked to the ESA-WB partnership, has started in September 2020 a new thematic cluster dedicated to Forest Management which is financed by ESA through 2023. The EO4SD-Forest Management Cluster has the overall objective of demonstrating the utility and benefits of mainstreaming Satellite …
Trans-Atlantic Training 2021 (TAT-8): Cloud-based Methods for Change Detection: SAR and Optical Processing
Educational materials from the Trans-Atlantic Training (TAT-8) held online from 1-4 June 2021. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the link on the left side window. Video recordings from the sessions can be accessed from the official course website. Day 1 – Tuesday 1 June 2021 Antonios Mouratidis …
Trans-Atlantic Training 2021 (TAT-8): Cloud-based Methods for Change Detection: SAR and Optical Processing
June 1, 2021 - June 4, 2021
The purpose of the series of Trans-Atlantic Training (TAT) courses is to disseminate and discuss research methods and technologies from space. It is organised jointly by ESA, NASA and the Charles University of Prague, in close cooperation with the Regional Information Network for Southern, Central and Eastern Europe (SCERIN). This training was the eighth in …
6th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2021
Educational materials from the 6th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2021 held online on 10-14 May 2021. Access specific videos (click on ), presentation slides (click on ), and exercise data (click on ) from the sessions here below, or download all the theory slides, practical slides and datasets from the window left side …
6th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2021
May 10, 2021 - May 14, 2021
The European Space Agency (ESA) organised the 6th 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. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event took place in an online format. A total of 40 post-graduate, PhD …
FORESTSCAN
Prime company: UCL CONSULTANTS LTD (GB)ESA’s upcoming Biomass mission will deliver valuable P-band SAR data aimed at forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation across the humid tropics. Additionally, the current NASA GEDI mission on the International Space Station (LiDAR), the NASA NISAR and JAXA ALOS-4 (L-band SAR) will widen our possibilities to estimate AGB from space. However, all these missions rely on …
11th ESA Training on Earth Observation 2021 (online)
Educational materials from the 11th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2021 held online from 22-26 March 2021. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the link on the left side window. Recordings from some of the sessions are available as well (click on the icon ), and the …