Despite their global coverage and public availability, measurements of water quality parameters retrieved by remote sensing have not been used for local short-term forecasting of water quality yet. In fact, forecasting based on remote sensing water quality products with on-ground resolution from, say, 30 m (Sentinel-2 MSI, Landsat-8/9 OLI) to 300 m (Sentinel-3A/B OLCI) or …
In the next decades, population growth is expected to amplify current pressures on critical resources such as fresh water or food, intensify the stress on land and marine ecosystems and increase environmental pollution and its impacts on health and biodiversity. Global warming and the increasing impacts of climate change, especially on most vulnerable populations, will …
This post contains educational materials from the event 13th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2023 Croatia held in Osijek, Croatia, from September 18-22, 2023. 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 …
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 …
The Unfolding the Sea State Bias: Isolating a physical mechanism causing swell dependence of SAR altimeters (SwellStats) project is a project funded by ESA aiming at improving the reliability of the estimates of the sea surface’s geophysical parameters made by SAR altimetry processing, increasing its value to assess informed climate-related decisions. Estimates of the geophysical …
In situ bio-optical datasets are essential for the assessment of the uncertainties of satellite ocean colour measurements and derived products. This is especially critical in coastal waters (between 200m and 5km distance from the coastline), where land adjacency effects, complex atmospheric aerosol mixtures, high loads of optically active components in particular high concentration of chromophoric …
The European Space Agency, in the context of the “FutureEO – Earth Observation Science for Society” Programme, and the World Climate Research Program are organising the Earth Energy Imbalance Assessment workshop, which will be hosted ad a hybrid event at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy, Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 May 2023. TARGET AUDIENCE …
The BICEP project is an innovative effort to better understand the biological carbon pump in the oceans using satellite data. By mapping the distribution of phytoplankton and other satellite-based products of different pools and fluxes of biological carbon in the surface ocean, the project seeks to improve our understanding of the role of the ocean …
Application deadline for the in-person component is February 13th, 2023! The Trevor Platt Science Foundation Symposium will be preceded by a training course on Satellite-based tools for investigating aquatic ecosystems. The training course will centre on a subset of the themes of the Symposium, such as remote sensing of ocean colour, water quality and human …
Contributions from the World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting 2022 held on 10-12 October 2022 in a hybrid format (both online and in presence at ESA-ESRIN, Italy) Day 1 – 10th October 2022 Session1: Introduction ESA opening (Giuseppe Ottavianelli, ESA) UCM context and objectives (Marie-Hélène RIO, ESA) Keynote 1: Ocean currents in support of the …
