Month: July 2022

OBSERVER: How Copernicus Helps Monitor the Health of Europe’s Coastal Waters

OBSERVER: How Copernicus Helps Monitor the Health of Europe’s Coastal Waters motta@spacetec… Thu, 28/07/2022 – 13:03 Europe’s coastal areas: vital but vulnerable The EU has around 68,000 km of coastline[1]. To put this into perspective, this represents over three times the coastline of the United States. Coastal areas are vital. For plants, animals, and other…
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Registration is available! Space 4 Critical Infrastructures on 13 October 10.00-11.00 am: Banking and Financial Market Infrastructures

This thematic session of “Space 4 Critical Infrastructures” revolves around banking and financial entities and how to manage operational risks and ensure business continuity. Space technology can support the digitalisation and greening of the financial sector. Satellite applications can contribute to credit, payment, and insurance processes, and in particular Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), to…
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Galileo OSNMA workshop highlights preliminary test results

On 28 June 2022, the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) held an online workshop about the ongoing testing of the Galileo Open Service – Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA). The event was an opportunity to both learn about the status of the testing phase and discuss preliminary results. As to the latter, highlights included:…
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OBSERVER: How Copernicus supports you with seasonal allergies

OBSERVER: How Copernicus supports you with seasonal allergies motta@spacetec… Thu, 21/07/2022 – 08:00 Map of Europe showing the birch pollen for late March 2022. CAMS provides forecasts for both pollen and air quality that are updated daily in the Atmosphere Data Store. This data can be used by health professionals and allergy sufferers to make…
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Save the date! Irish Earth Observation Symposium IEOS2022, 3rd & 4th November 2022 @TU Dublin City Campus

When: 3-4th November 2022Where: @TU Dublin Grangegorman/Bolton StreetWho: Remote sensing/Earth Observation and Geospatial research, academia and industry community in Ireland and overseas!Cost: Free! However, you will need to register (TBA) Important dates Mid-July: “Save the date” first announcementw/c 1st August: call for abstracts (talks/posters), call for EO Tech Expo, call for sponsorsMid-September: registration opens3rd and…
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EU Space enables safer maritime operations

  It’s the middle of the summer holiday season and an earthquake strikes Greece, rendering all ground-based communication services worthless. At this exact moment, a leisure boat sailing several kilometres off the coast of Athens experiences an on-board fire. Luckily, they have a Galileo-enabled Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) to send a distress signal with,…
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OBSERVER: Sensing the currents – detecting marine plastic litter in the Mediterranean

OBSERVER: Sensing the currents – detecting marine plastic litter in the Mediterranean motta@spacetec… Thu, 14/07/2022 – 10:17 Preserving our waters Water is vital to life. With our marine resources increasingly at risk, the world’s attention is shifting to the protection of its assets from oceans, seas, rivers and lakes down to the smallest streams and…
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Save the date 1-3 December 2022: New Space Economy Expoforum, Fiera di Roma , Italy

NSE, the New Space Economy Expoforum, is the yearly date on the economic impacts of the space sector, on what drives the rapid evolution of the institutional and private involvement in the New Space. In addition, NSE networks big industrial players, small and medium innovative companies, investors, venturers, startups, research centers, academia, space agencies, institutions…
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Trans-Atlantic Training 2022 (TAT-9): A Changing Eastern Europe: New Challenges for Science and Capacity Building in Land Remote Sensing

The deadline for the applications is 25th of July 2022 The purpose of the series of Trans-Atlantic Training (TAT) courses is to disseminate and discuss research methods and technologies from space. It is organised jointly by ESA, NASA and the Charles University of Prague, in close cooperation with the Regional Information Network for Southern, Central…
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ESA Training Course on Artic Methane and Permafrost 2022

Application deadline: 15 July 2022 The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Earth Observation (EO) training course in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The course will take place from 19 – 23 September 2022 at the premises of the Andoya Space Centre (ASC) in Andenes, Norway. The training is designed to…
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