ESA Advanced Training on Land Remote Sensing
2nd September, 2007 – 7th September, 2007
Deadline for applications 15 May 2007
The training will be devoted to the exploitation of Earth Observation data from ESA and Third Party Mission instruments for land applications, with a focus on applications over Europe. The training course will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 2 to 7 September 2007. It is hosted by the Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ISEGI-UNL), with coordination support from the Remote Sensing Unit of the Portuguese Geographic Institute (Instituto Geográfico Português, IGP). As an advanced training course, it is targeted to the European and Canadian research and development community, in particular post-doc researchers as well as masters and PhD students.
There is no fee for the training course but students are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
The specific objectives of the advanced land training course are to:
1. Stimulate and support the exploitation of ESA EO and Third Party Mission (TPM) remote sensing data for land applications;
2. Introduce available tools and methods for the exploitation of ERS, Envisat, TPM and Explorers satellite data;
3. Train the next generation of European and Canadian Principal Investigators (PIs).
The 2007 land training course will address both Radar and Optical/Thermal remote sensing and will focus on GMES land thematic priorities:
Land resources (forestry, agriculture, urban);
Disasters (fires, floods, landslides);
Water resources (water availability and quality).
It will include lectures by leading scientists as well as hands-on computing exercises exposing students to remote sensing applications and illustrating the use of specific software tools for the exploitation of EO data, with a focus on Envisat and ERS data products for land applications (e.g. (A)SAR, MERIS and (A)ATSR).
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact: Muriel Simon, Clara Moura-Cruz , eotraining @ esa.int
Tel: +39-06-94-180-671, Fax: +39-06-94-180-942
