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13th ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE ON LAND REMOTE SENSING (Snow and Glaciers)

September 16 - September 20
University of Innsbruck, CCampus “Universitätsstraße” – Sowi
Innsbruck, Austria

Background The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Snow and Glaciers in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck. This course is dedicated to train the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts, working in the domains of snow and glaciers, in using data from Copernicus …

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30 YEARS OF PROGRESS IN RADAR ALTIMETRY” SYMPOSIUM | Montpellier, France 2-7 September 2024

September 2 - September 7

Background Following on from the 15, 20 and 25 “Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” Symposia (respectively in 2006, 2012, and 2018), all deemed very successful milestones by the participants and the readership of the Proceedings, we have now reached the 30-year anniversary of precise altimetry. To mark this occasion the European Space Agency, in …

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FAST-EO (Fostering Advancements in Foundation Models via Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning for Downstream Tasks in Earth Observation)

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

Fostering Advancements in Foundation Models via Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning for Downstream Tasks in Earth ObservationThe objectives will be achieved through the validation of the proposed FMs (Multimodal Foundation Models) on suitable downstream applications that address global societal challenges. More specifically, the validation of the proposed FM architectures will be conducted on six main use …

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SENTINELS FOR LAND DEGRADATION NEUTRALITY (SEN4LDN)

Prime company: VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK VITO (BE)

To address the need for higher spatial resolution datasets to monitor Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). The SEN4LDN consortium aims to develop, demonstrate and validate robust and automated EO methods to map land cover changes and land productivity dynamics that exploit the high frequency and spatial resolution of Sentinel-1 and 2. Land degradation affects the livelihoods of millions of …

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APPLICABILITY OF SATELLITE AND DRONES EO DATA FOR LANDFILLS DETECTION AND MONITORING

Prime company: FUNDACIÓN ANDALUZA PARA EL DESARROL (ES)

SAT+Dron4Landfills is a project which aims to use EO data for effective and timely detection and monitoring of landfills. As a major innovation, two main types of EO data are considered under the project: from existing satellite systems, and from in-situ drone campaigns. EO satellite data will be used to provide relevant information to detect …

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WIDE-AREA SENTINEL-1 DEFORMATION CLASSIFICATION FOR ADVANCED DATA EXPLOITATION

Prime company: CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACI (ES)

The WISE (Wide-Area Sentinel-1 Deformation Classification  for  Advanced  Data  Exploitation)  project focuses on developing advanced tools to exploit the large amount of satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. The main data source will be the Sentinel-1 SAR data: this Copernicus mission provides, with its fast revisit time, high-resolution and multi-polarization, an unprecedented amount of data, …

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Training and Education

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, …

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MOOC4LAND – DEVELOPING A MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE ON EO LAND APPLICATIONS

Prime company: EARTH OBSERVATION SERVICES GMBH (DE)

The key objective of the proposed project is the development and deployment of a massive open online course (MOOC) to convey the spectrum o applications of Earth Observation (EO) over land surfaces. The first course is part of a series of online learning materials that will give insights on the potential of remote sensing technologies …

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WorldSoils

Prime company: GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA (ES)

The WorldSoils activity aims at developing a global Earth Observation-Soil Monitoring System (EO-SMS) on a suitable cloud environment utilizing open source and information available from operational services (e.g. information layers from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) such as impervious layers e.g. soil sealing, land cover and change, soil moisture, etc…), user exchangeable soil reference …

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