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EO AFRICA Webinar: Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought

September 19, 2023 @ 14:00 - 16:00 UTC+2

This webinar will provide insights concerning the developed EO-based insurance model that utilizes NDVI-imagery to quantitatively assess occurring agronomic droughts. As a business model, since 2018, the Vegetation Index Crop Insurance (VICI) scheme is successfully in use by various Ethiopian organizations. The webinar will be executed under the framework of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility by  ITC-UTwente.

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13th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2023 Croatia

September 18, 2023 - September 22, 2023
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 10b
Osijek, 31000 Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)

The purpose of this training course was to train the next generation of Earth Observation scientists in Croatia and beyond. This training course was organised jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA),  Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek (FERIT), Croatia and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia (MZO). The course …

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SELPER/CEOS WGCapD Training Course – Remote Sensing Applications to Floods, Droughts, fires, and landslides (Spanish)

May 31, 2023 - June 2, 2023

The application deadline is 20th May 2023. Register HERE. This is a training course on the use of satellite data for floods, droughts, wildfires, and landslide applications. Note that the course will be mainly in Spanish with some parts in English. The Mexico Chapter of the Sociedad Latinoamericana en Percepción Remota y Sistemas de Informatión …

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International Workshop on High-Resolution Thermal EO

May 10, 2023 - May 12, 2023
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background High-resolution thermal Earth Observation (EO) has been identified as a major observational gap in our rapidly warming climate. Land-surface temperature is a key variable needed for understanding and adapting to climate variability, managing water resources sustainably for agricultural production, mitigating health stress during heatwaves, predicting droughts, monitoring coastal and inland waters and addressing natural …

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Space for International Development Assistance

Launched March 13th, 2023. This mini-MOOC will look at how Earth Observation (EO) data can be used for International Development Assistance (IDA). Imperative Space, commissioned by ESA, has created this MOOC  in cooperation with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and client countries. The MOOC will teach you how EO data, applications, and capabilities are …

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MOOC: Towards Zero Hunger

The first parts of this Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) are out now! Further modules will be sequentially released until the end of 2023. The MOOC is developed by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Ruhr University Bochum with a community of stakeholders including ESA. It will give you insights on the potential of remote …

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR WIDER USE OF CIVILIAN EARTH OBSERVATION IN COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Prime company: CSNSC Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelős (HU)

The aims for the study are: To summarize current understanding of the main proliferation related actors, threats and underlying processes and their evolution expected over the next 5 years. To identify organizations responsible for collecting information and analysing threats and risks related to chemical, nuclear and radiological proliferation and their interaction. To review the information …

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SELPER/CEOS WGCapD Training Course – Remote Sensing Applications to Floods, Droughts, and fires (Spanish)

October 24, 2022 - October 25, 2022
Biblioteca Universitaria Rangel Frías, Ciudad Universitaria Campus of the UANL, Av Alfonso Reyes 4000
Monterrey, Nuevo León 64500 Mexico

ESA and the partner institutions of the Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy (WGCapD) of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) organised a training course on remote sensing applications for floods, droughts, and wildfires.  This course ran on 24th & 25th October 2022 with a hybrid format, where participation is possible either …

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