A few months ago, East Africa faced the consequences of weeks of heavy rains and subsequent flooding, attributed in part to the El Niño weather phenomenon, impacting Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Somalia. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the flooding has devastated communities, with over 750,000…
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Earth Observation (EO) training course in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, SIOS. The course will take place from 9-14 September 2024 at the Svalbard Science Centre in Svalbard, Norway. The training is designed to promote and…
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The COST Action CA19109 “MedCyclones – European Network for Mediterranean Cyclones in Weather and Climate” and ESA are delighted to announce the 3rd Workshop on Mediterranean Cyclones, scheduled for 15-19 July 2024 at ESA’s ESRIN facility in Frascati, Italy. This event aims to present cutting-edge research and developments in understanding, modelling, and monitoring Mediterranean cyclones…
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The deadline to register is May 31st, 2024. Trans-Atlantic-Training (TAT) is a series of annual workshops and training courses in Earth Observation (EO), organized since 2013 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Charles University in Prague, Czechia. TAT 2024 training: “Earth Observation and Machine Learning for Disaster Mapping” (TAT-11) will take place from…
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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…
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Save the date! The Science and Data programme, EOP-SD, of the European Space Agency (ESA), is organising an advanced training course on remote sensing of the Cryosphere, devoted to training the next generation of scientists and specialists to exploit EO data for science and applications. Postgraduate-level, PhD students, post-doctoral research scientists and users from Europe…
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The webinar will describe ways to monitor flood events and surface soil moisture on a global scale, using microwave Earth Observation data. The webinar will be executed under the framework of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility by TU Wien. The post EOAFRICA Webinar: Global flood monitoring and Surface Soil Moisture anomalies appeared first on eo science for society.…
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The webinar provides a biological basis for crop yield estimation and within-season forecasting with Earth observation image data. The webinar will be executed under the framework of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility by the University of Twente – Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation. The post EOAFRICA Webinar: fPAR as a Proxy for Yield Estimation/Forecasting appeared first on…
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The 6th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Rabat, Morocco at CRASTE-LF (African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology in French Language). This course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on vegetation and drought monitoring based on satellite EO data. It will focus both…
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This webinar will focus on the importance and use of Sentinel-1 SAR data for flood mapping. With Sentinel-1 SAR data, we can map and analyse the affected flooded areas over a region, that may be not easily accessible, and even compare them with the official flood maps available. The post EOAFRICA Webinar: Flood Mapping with…
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