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HYDROSPACE-GEOGloWS 2021

June 7, 2021 - June 11, 2021
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

This HYDROSPACE-GEOGloWS joint conference represents an opportunity to address key surface water issues including: What are the new key science questions? What are the new challenges and how should we address them? What are the new algorithms and the new advancements allowing the use of satellite data with the most advanced models in particular for …

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CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers in Alaska and Asia

Between 2010 and 2019, the Gulf of Alaska lost 76 Gt of ice per year while High Mountain Asia lost 28 Gt of ice per year. These losses are equivalent to adding 0.21 mm and 0.05 mm to sea level rise per year, respectively. The results, based on interferometric swath processing of CryoSat-2 altimeter data, …

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Matthew Gaddes

Matthew has been at Leeds since 2014 and was initially a PhD candidate, before completing his studies and becoming a postdoc in 2019.  Since July 2020, he has been a European Space Agency Living Planet Fellow, and is part funded by the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) and …

SEN4CARBON Theme 2: Fire Dynamics (SENSE4FIRE)

Prime company: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN (DE)

Based on the new possibilities of the Sentinel series of satellites, this project aims to develop a highly novel approach to derive global fire emissions estimates based on the characterisation of individual fires and their behaviour. These data will be combined with bottom-up estimates of fuel and combustion and top-down constraints on total carbon emissions …

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VMDL: Volcano Monitoring using Deep Learning

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Matthew Gaddes. The Earth’s subaerial volcanoes pose a variety of threats to humanity, yet the vast majority remain unmonitored.  However, with the advent of the latest synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, interferometric SAR (InSAR) has evolved into a tool that can be used to monitor the majority …

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Fringe 2021

May 31, 2021 - June 4, 2021

  This event will take place online.   Fringe 2021 is a free workshop, focused on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry and Sentinel-1 InSAR” open to scientists, students and Sentinel-1 data users, as well as representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industries. Its main objectives are: …

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Impact of COVID-19 on harvest of row crop

Prime company: VISTA GEOWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FERNERKUNDUNG GMBH (DE)

The project aims at determining changes in agricultural management patterns, particularly in crop harvest dates, as accurately as possible using Sentinel-1 radar data, and assessing whether linked to Covid-19. 

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Alpsnow

Prime company: ENVEO – ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH OBSERVATION GMBH (AT)

The AlpSnow project will develop improved products for a number of snow parameters (area extent, albedo, grain size, depth, snow water equivalent, snow melt area and wetness). A dataset covering the entire Alps for 4 years will be produced, and its usefulness will be demonstrated through three science cases and three demonstration cases related to …

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The curious incident of Swarm and sprites in the night-time

We are all familiar with the bolts of lightning that accompany heavy storms. While these flashes originate in storm clouds and strike downwards, a much more elusive type forms higher up in the atmosphere and shoots up towards space. So, what are the chances of somebody taking photographs of these rarely seen, brief ‘transient luminous …

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The Marine Atmosphere eXtreme Satellite Synergy – MAXSS

Prime company: IFREMER (FR)

The general objectives of this activity is to foster the scientific exploitation of EO-based products to improve the observation, understanding and prediction of extreme wind events and their interaction with the ocean and the earth system. In particular, the required activities include (1) the development, implementation and validation of new methods allowing to fully exploit …

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