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EO Africa Online Training #3: Water and Energy Budgets from Space

April 18, 2022 - May 13, 2022

3rd EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Course Deadline for applications: April 1, 2022 Introduction to the course: Satellite Earth observation, hydro-meteorological modelling and data assimilation provide a powerful combination for quantifying hydroclimatic variables to effectively address water management issues in this online course, an introduction will be given to the theory and techniques to observe the …

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Hydrology in the Po River basin

A research in the context of the Irrigation+ project follow-on activity DTE Hydrology analysed the potential for inferring rainfall measurements from satellite data at higher resolution than the current usual one (10km). In particular, it explored the application of the SM2RAIN (Soil Moisture to Rain) algorithm for rainfall estimation to a high resolution soil moisture …

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EO Africa Webinar Series on EO for Water and Food Security

Developed in the context of the EO Africa project, this series of webinars covers a variety of topics related to the use of Earth Observation (EO) for topics related to water and food security. The recorded webinars, which consist of theoretical background, applications examples and Q&A session, are available here below. Access specific videos (click …

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MOOC: Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space

Developed in the context of the EO Africa project, this free MOOC provides an introduction to the topic of droughts and details how they can be quantified, assessed and monitored from space. The contents include the role of cloud computing and the access to satellite data. No prior knowledge in Earth Observation (EO) is required. The …

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Copernicus RUS Training Materials

Running from 2017 to December 2021, the Copernicus Research and User Support (RUS) service aimed to develop an online free-access platform to promote the uptake of Copernicus data and support the scaling up of educational and R&D activities. In particular, the service provided Copernicus data access, cloud computing resources, access to effective software tools and …

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Tim Trent

Tim is currently a research fellow working within the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) based at the University of Leicester. In addition to his research role, he also co-chairs the international GEWEX Water Vapour Assessment (G-VAP) working group. Output from this group features in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …

RUS webinar: Drought monitoring with Sentinel-2

November 23, 2021 @ 14:30 UTC+2

This webinar will show how to use Sentinel-2 optical data to monitor changes in surface water extent due to long-lasting drought in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. It will show how different Sentinel-2 derived water radiometric indices can be used to detect water bodies and monitor changes in their extent. The webinar will also show how …

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Water cycle changes characterised from atmospheric moisture recycling (WEATHER)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Tim Trent. Water vapour is an essential greenhouse gas in the Earth climate system, acting as a natural feedback mechanism for carbon dioxide forcing. Critical to the development of cloud and precipitation, water vapour also has a significant influence and impact on surface fluxes and radiative balance. Water vapour …

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L-band Observations of Soil and Trees in Freezing/Thawing Conditions – LOSTinFTC

Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Anna Kontu. Passive microwave observations at L-band (1.4 GHz) can detect soil freeze/thaw status based on the differences in the electrical properties of ice and liquid water. This method is suitable for detecting autumn freezing, but during spring thawing the liquid water in melting snow confounds the signal from …

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Streamride

Prime company: CNR-RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR GEO-HYDROLOGICAL PROTECTION – IRPI (IT)

This project is a proposal extension of the ESA STREAM (SaTellite based Runoff Evaluation And Mapping, Contract Number 4000126745/19/I-NB, ) project and it is addressed to investigate the possibility to improve river discharge estimates by merging STREAM approach with the one developed within the ESA RIDESAT (River flow monitoring and discharge estimation by integrating multiple …

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