Month: October 2021

Registration is open: Copernicus4regions webinar on Natural Disasters on Thursday 18 November at 10.00-11.00 am

The Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies (NEREUS) in tandem with the European Commission and the European Space Agency is pleased to invite you to the Copernicus4regions webinar: How Copernicus supports Europe’s regions to improve prevention and preparedness to natural disasters. Impulse statements from Members of European Parliament: Younous Omarjee, president of the EP-Committee on Regional…
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Virtual EXCELSIOR Workshop: Developing tools for marine plastics monitoring on 2nd of November 2021

Topic: Developing tools for marine plastics monitoring Time:  11:00 EET (08:00 UTC)  Language: English Virtual invited talk ‍ Speaker: Ms. Els Knaeps Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUud-6tpjgqE9BoZYvW0q5DO3V_OT33aC0S    Els Knaeps obtained a Master’s degree in Geography and a Master’s degree in GIS and Remote Sensing. She has 10 years of experience in Remote Sensing Image processing for water quality and coastal…
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Follow-up of the Copernicus4regions webinar “How Copernicus helps Europe’s regions to support biodiversity and environmental protection”

On the 26th of October 2021, NEREUS together with the European Commission and the European Space Agency organised the 3rd Copernicus4regions webinar: “How Copernicus helps Europe’s regions to support biodiversity and environmental protection” as part of a series of 5 online events. The objective of the webinar was to engage in a debate on the dimension of…
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Sound, Space and Waste: Ireland’s First Space Waste Residency Artist Lands in Cork

26 October — The National Space Centre (NSC) in partnership with Greywood Arts has named Swedish sculptor Nicklas Lundberg as the Artist in Residence for Ireland’s first Space Waste Residency. Lundberg will travel to Ireland at the beginning of November for the month-long artist-in-residence programme, which examines waste produced by the acceleration of space technology…
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ESPA now includes Landsat Collection 2 Normalized Difference Snow Index

Derived from Landsat Collection 2 Surface Reflectance data, Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) products are produced using scenes that can successfully process to Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Surface Reflectance products. The NDSI science product is the normalized difference between spectral bands green (G) and the shortwave infrared (SWIR). NDSI is useful for separating snow from vegetation, soils,…
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From 4 to 6 November all roads lead to EUSPA!

EUSPA is introducing itself to general public in Prague and the newly created EU Space Programme with an Open Space open-air, flashy exhibition full of colour. Our daily lives are influenced by what happens in space, much more than we realise. Satellites in orbit allow millions of people to communicate and navigate using new technologies,…
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Smart cities and green transportation modes take center stage in #myEUSpace

With less than a month left for the submission deadline of EUSPA’s latest innovation competition it’s time for a short recap the ‘’Map My World’’ and ‘’Move Me Smart’’ challenges.  According to UN projections, urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050.…
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EO Training before the XIX SELPER International Symposium: Sentinels for vegetation and natural disasters

Course re-scheduled: Updated 23/07/2021: In view of the recent developments related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the direction from the respective health authorities, SELPER and the European Space Agency  have  schedule this course. It will take place in a fully online format from 8-12 November 2021.  ESA and the Latin American Society of Remote Sensing…
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RUS webinar: Coastal erosion monitoring with Sentinel-1 data

This webinar will demonstrate how to process Sentinel-1 data in order to monitor coastal changes due to erosion in West Africa. The webinar will also show how to access the RUS environment to download, process, analyze and visualize the free data acquired by the Copernicus satellites. It will end with a Q&A session. Apply from Monday…
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Galileo 10th launch anniversary: The day the European Union broke through the GNSS industry

On October 21, 2011 Europe took a major step in its space history by launching the first two operational Galileo satellites at 12h30 CET from Kourou, French Guiana. That day the EU came one step closer to having its own Global Navigation Satellite System. Galileo is the European Union navigation and positioning system, and currently,…
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