The EO4Resilience project aims to develop innovative Earth Observation (EO)-based biodiversity indicators to assess forest resilience to drought. By leveraging data from hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) missions, the project seeks to establish a set of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) to monitor and better understand the role of biodiversity in resilience to environmental stress. …
The ability to accurately characterize either fixed objects or moving targets is a critical need for security, defence and intelligence purposes. Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems are revolutionizing this domain, and advancements in Inverse SAR (ISAR) techniques offer unprecedented improvements in moving target identification and analysis. Current EO systems can provide very high-resolution (VHR) …
The combined use of traditional satellite SAR and Inverse SAR (ISAR) techniques applied to SAR data has been investigated to assess their impact on feature extraction processes and improvements in data fusion results. Unlike SAR, which uses the radar platform’s motion to generate a synthetic aperture for imaging, ISAR relies on the motion of the …
This post contains educational materials from the event ESA Training on EO for Forestry held in Belém, Brazil, November 1- 3, 2024. Access zip files (click on ), presentation slides (click on ), practical exercises (click on ), and exercise data (click on ) from the sessions here below, or download all the theory slides, …
The goal of this project is to further develop and validate a high frequency SAR interferometric phase center (DSM) approach together with existing and forthcoming DTMs to map forest biomass (AGBD). To that end, the study will: 1) develop a novel method for annual AGBD mapping with individual TanDEM-X DSMs and Sentinel-1 time series for …
Background The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in association with the European Space Agency (ESA), are jointly organising a course on Advanced SAR Technologies & Applications. This course focuses on SAR data processing, polarimetry, and interferometry. It will cover a range of applications, from terrain mapping to vegetation analysis and ocean/coastal monitoring. Objectives The …
The focus of CROSCIM is Arctic operations and the development of a processor that will take advantage of the novel products from the Copernicus Expansion missions and deliver near real time and short term forecast (up to 2 days) level 4 products for sea ice concentration, sea ice thickness, snow thickness, sea surface height anomaly …
This PolInSAR course is an online, hands-on course that aims to develop an understanding of the information content of multi-parameter SAR data in an interactive way, without assuming any prior/background knowledge – though some knowledge in Python programming is welcome. It is organised around 11 sessions over 11 weeks, with lectures and tutorials ranging from SAR image formation up …
This in-person training, organised in the frame of the ISPRS-SELPER 2024 symposium, will take place just before the event at the same location. The main purpose is to present and to teach how to handle various tools to process Earth Observation (EO) data relevant for forestry applications. The course will combine theoretical lectures and practical …
This post contains educational material from the 13th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing that was held in Innsbruck, Austria, from the 16th September – 20th September 2024. The lectures can also be found on YouTube by clicking here. Access specific videos (click on ), presentation slides (click on ), and exercise data (click …
