The KO has been hold the 27 August 2019 at ESRIN, for a duration of 2 years. The Mid Term Review has been successfully passed the 31 August 2020. The Final results are expected for June 2021. The project consists of the following cardinal requirements: Generation, delivery and validation of a LC map of the …
Monitoring of cropland has been critical for several national and international programmes (e.g., Sustainable Development Goals – #2 Zero Hunger, European Common Agriculture Policy). Furthermore, early identification of crops is becoming more stringent in the context of climate change that can influence severely crop yields in some parts of the world. Given the size of …
The CrowdVal project had five main objectives: Develop new innovative sampling schemes that allow a stratification and bias removal via road networks and that take other constraints into account for in-situ data collection; Enhance LACO-Wiki and LACO-Wiki Mobile with the new sampling strategies, functionality for opportunistic map evaluation on the ground, and the addition of …
Interferometric (InSAR) short-time-series of Sentinel-1 SAR data acquired over central Europe were exploited in a new approach for the generation of large-scale thematic maps. Temporal features, extracted from the evolution of the interferometric coherence, together with backscatter, were used as input for a machine learning-based classifier. Three land cover classes were extracted: artificial surfaces, forests, …
Soil, the mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids and organisms that constitute the upper layer of the Earth, is key for life. Climate change, industrialization and urbanization, intensive agriculture and livestock farming are exercising pressures that might lead to soil degradation. Consequently, as highlighted from several international treaties, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, …
Educational materials from the Trans-Atlantic Training 2019 (TAT-7) held in Novi Sad, Serbia, on 20-24 June 2019. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the link on the left side window. Introduction to ESA EO Missions (focus on SAR missions), F. Sarti (554 MB) Reminders of SAR Theory …
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 seventh in …
The Science and Applications with Sentinel-2 special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment has been completed with the last paper published on 5 April 2019. It features a selection of 28 key papers covering a wide range of new applications monitoring natural and human-induced dynamic processes up to national and even continental scale at high-resolution. …
During the past decades infrastructures had to meet rapidly increasing users’ needs in terms of construction of new buildings, transportation, energy, water supply, sewer system and information networks. In this context, Earth Observation (EO) represents an opportunity for innovative science, applications and information services to face some of the issues related to such increase as …
The project aims at defining the scientific methods and the related prototype algorithms for addressing three main challenges with the multispectral and multiresolution Sentinel 2 images: 1) change detection; 2) analysis of image time series; and 3) updating of land-cover maps.
