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

Prime company: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) (ES)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Riccardo Palama. 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, …

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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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Earth Observation for Landslides ‘eo4alps landslides’ – Alps regional initiative

Prime company: SATT CONECTUS ALSACE (FR)

The project focuses on implementing regional geoinformation services and products for landslide risk assessment over the Alpine mountain range. EO4ALPS-landslides will set the basis for the creation of harmonized and advanced landslide inventories and susceptibility/hazard maps based on EO ground motion services linked to advanced modelling capabilities all embedded in the user-driven GeoHazard Exploitation Platform …

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Zina Mitraka

Zina Mitraka is a Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Lab (rslab.gr) of FORTH. She is a mathematician by training (Applied Mathematics Department of the University of Crete, Greece) with further studies in Environmental Engineering (MSc in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece) and a PhD on satellite Earth Observation for urban …

Large Scale Exploitation of Satellite Data for the Assessment of Urban Surface Temperatures (EO4UTEMP)

Prime company: FORTH (GR)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Zina Mitraka. The rate at which global climate change is happening is arguably the most pressing environmental challenge of the century and it affects our cities. Temperature is one of the most important parameters in climate monitoring and Earth Observation (EO) systems and the advances in remote …

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Volcanic monItoring using SenTinel sensors by an integrated Approach (VISTA)

Prime company: GEO-K SRL (IT)

Volcanic monItoring using SenTinel sensors by an integrated Approach (VISTA) project is aimed at developing a novel ensemble of algorithms to completely characterized the effects of volcanic emissions on land and atmosphere. Volcanic activity is observed worldwide with a variety of remote sensing instruments, each one with advantages and drawbacks. Because a single remote sensing …

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ALBIOM (ALtimetry for BIOMass)

Prime company: DEIMOS SPACE UK LTD (GB)

The ALBIOM project (ALtimetry for BIOMass) proposes to derive forest biomass using SAR Altimetry Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 (S3) Mission. Biomass is at present monitored globally using optical satellites, SAR and LiDAR technology, but it is still poorly quantified in most parts of the world, and the satellite data currently exploited for this purpose …

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