This webinar will use Sentinel-2 data to estimate the value of forest above-ground biomass in a forest area in Ethiopia. As a reference dataset it will use the publicly available database produced by the ESA Biomass Climate Change Initiative (BCCI), for the year 2017. Processing of the image will be done using a combination of…
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“Space for our Planet” exhibition will be inaugurated at the Esplanade of the European Parliament on 28 Sep (13.30-14.30)! This is an outdoor event open to everyone: https://www.space4ourplanet.org/ ‘Space4OurPlanet’ examines the key role of space technologies in the transition towards a sustainable planet whilst also showing how younger generations are empowered and involved in…
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EO and AI for Forestry This course is dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts working in forestry domain to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science and applications development. The training will include theory and hands-on sessions on…
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For Landsat Collection 2, users are encouraged to use the new LandsatLook 2.0 tool. The new tool allows rapid online visualization and access to the Landsat archive. It also enables users to create dynamic custom mosaics using three band combinations, to select spectral indices, and to perform quality assessment band filtering. Landsat Collection 1,…
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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 helps European regions to better preserve and grow Europe’s forests on 23rd September 10-11 am. Impulse statement by Member of European Parliament Mauri Pekkarinen.…
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Posted by United Launch Alliance on September 16, 2021 The encapsulated payload stack with Landsat 9 is transported from the Integrated Processing Facility (IPF) to Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 for hoisting aboard the Atlas V. Photo by United Launch Alliance Yesterday, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., the encapsulated payload stack was transported from the…
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It’s 7 o’clock on a Tuesday morning. As you decide what kind of cereal to have, you accidentally splash a bit of almond milk onto your cotton pajama top. The last thing on your mind is a pair of satellites orbiting Earth over 400 miles away. And yet, those satellites are a part of your morning routine. They tell farmers how much water their almond trees need to thrive…
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Fire history metrics, in years, for natural pinelands in Florida. (Map courtesy of Casey Teske, Melanie Vanderhoof, Todd Hawbaker, Joe Noble, and John Hiers) The Florida Forest Service issues permits for an average of 2 million acres of prescribed burns each year. That’s 16 times the annual prescribed burn acreage in California, according to the California…
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A U.S. Geological Survey analysis, completed in August 2021, found a 0.9% increase in the percent of national lands and water protected primarily for biodiversity since the database’s last major update in May 2016. This was one of the key findings of the Spatial Analysis and Statistics data summaries of the version 2.1 of Protected…
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C2 ARD are tiled, georegistered, top of atmosphere, and atmospherically corrected products defined in a common projection that make the Landsat archive more accessible, easier to analyze, and reduce the amount of time users spend on data processing for time-series analysis. Landsat C2 Level-1 data that are processed into Albers-projected Level-2 Surface Reflectance and Surface…
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