Category: ESA Training

12th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2022

Application deadline: 13 May 2022 The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Earth Observation (EO) training course in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, the Institute of Environmental Solutions and Riga Technical University. The course will take place from 27 June – 1 July 2022 at the…
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EO Africa F2F Training #2: Earth Observations for Water Resources Assessment and Monitoring

The second face to face (F2F) course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Accra, Ghana, immediately after the United Nations/Ghana 5th International Conference on the Use of Space Technologies for Water Resources Management. Deadline for applications: April 25th, 2022 In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based image analysis techniques…
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3rd edition of the DLR/ESA open PolInSAR training course

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 10 sessions over 10 weeks, with lectures and tutorials ranging from…
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EO Africa Online Training #3: Water and Energy Budgets from Space

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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Mapping Crops and their Biophysical Characteristics with Polarimetric SAR and Optical Remote Sensing

Mapping crop types and assessing their characteristics is critical for monitoring food production, enabling optimal use of the landscape, and contributing to agricultural policy. Remote sensing methods based on optical and/or microwave sensors have become an important means of extracting information related to crops. Optical data is related to the chemical properties of the vegetation,…
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EO Africa Online Training #2: Principles of and Advances in Earth Observation

2nd EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Course Deadline for applications: March 3, 2022 Introduction to the course: This online course will provide participants with fundamental EO knowledge to better understand and use Earth Observation data. The focus of the course will be on optical data and their advantages and limitations but also active SAR will be…
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EO Africa Webinar 4: Evapotranspiration from Space

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar is devoted to evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring with Earth Observation (EO) satellites. The webinar is going to have four parts: During the first 20 minutes, the concept of ET and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman (1948) – Monteith (1965) approach to its modelling will…
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EO Africa Online Training #1: Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses

1st EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Course Deadline for applications: March 3, 2022 Introduction to the course: This course introduces participants to Cloud Computing and its usage for Earth Observation (EO) data analysis. It starts with big geospatial data concepts and extends to Cloud Computing as one of the solutions for solving the problems of big…
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Software Tools for Earth Observation analyses

3rd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar provides an overview of existing open-source tools for processing data coming from different satellite missions with a main focus on Copernicus missions’ products. During the webinar participants get familiar with ESA SNAP software and its toolboxes. Then a short demonstration of QGIS plugins used in…
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Training session on Copernicus Data Access (Spanish)

ESA, the Water Observatory of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the National University of Itapúa, the Space Agency of Paraguay and the Joint Commission from Argentina and Paraguay for the Paraná River are organising a training session dedicated to the access of Copernicus Sentinels data. The session is intended for professionals, students, researchers…
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