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📢Don’t miss the European Space Agency - ESA tender📢 –🌍 Sentinel users preparation (SUP) – target to strengthen expertise in downstream service development. 🚀This competitive tender will lead to multiple contracts, with a maximum value of 💶€800K per contract and with an implementation over a 2-year period⏳. High priority applications : 🌾 Food systems and agriculture 🌍 Ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring 👩🌾 Soil management 💦 Inland water management 🌊 Coastal management 🌬️ GHG and air quality 🌳 Forest management 🏢 Urban resilience 🌉 Critical infrastructure management ⛏️ Mining and extractives ❄️ Arctic operations 🔥 Natural hazard management 👩🚀Let's connect if KALAXIE can contribute in your preparation of the tender! ☄️ Tender's link in the comments session Giuseppe Ottavianelli European Commission EARSC EuroGEO - Europe’s part of the Group on Earth Observations Group on Earth Observations (GEO) #Space #tender #earthobservation #geospatial #gis

"Satellite remote sensing is vital for monitoring marine and freshwater ecosystems, leveraging missions like SeaWiFS, MODIS, MERIS, Landsat, and Sentinel to track water parameters such as chlorophyll, sediment, and temperature. The dynamic nature of water bodies demands high-frequency observations for accuracy, with limitations highlighted by factors like clouds and sunlight. Despite its longer revisit cycle, Landsat's observations are invaluable for inland and coastal waters, emphasizing the need for more frequent data to monitor the dynamic changes in aquatic ecosystems effectively. In a recent study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing, advancements in analyzing water environments via Landsat missions are revealed. For the first time, this research offers a global assessment of cloud-free observations (NCOs) from Landsat, emphasizing its critical contribution to environmental and hydrological studies, marking a significant leap in our capability to monitor and understand water bodies on a global scale."... Phys org read & learn more More information: Lian Feng et al, Quantifying Cloud-Free Observations from Landsat Missions: Implications for Water Environment Analysis, Journal of Remote Sensing (2024). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0110 https://lnkd.in/e5MM-3Zj

🗞️ Big news from the Renoster team! Our Remote Sensing Scientist, John Kilbride, has contributed to a notable advancement in rapid forest detection. His latest article, published in MDPI's remote sensing science journal, introduces a SAR-based forest alert system utilizing deep learning and Sentinel-1A/B satellite imagery. 🌏 This will help Renoster and also aid workers at the SERVIR and USAID programs to track and prevent deforestation in the region. The work is particularly important right now because nations like Cambodia are dealing with some of the highest deforestation rates in the world. Numerous REDD+ projects exist within this scope and each struggle to identify deforestation as it happens. This work is part of a larger effort that Jack was a part of to provide data directly to Cambodian conservationists, and the paper accompanied in-person GIS training and exercises in Cambodia and Thailand. 👉 Give it a read here: https://lnkd.in/gFucnuGN #RemoteSensing #ForestConservation #DeepTransparency

At Geography2050, Tobin W. McGilligan, Project Manager at CARTO, discussed using geospatial analytics to boost #climateresilience in Hawai’i 🌎 Discover how you can use geospatial solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change here 👇 https://hubs.ly/Q029RGq90

Long-term statistics and wind dependence of near-bottom and deep-sea ambient noise in the northwest South China Sea - Frontiers in Marine Science: Research on ocean ambient noise is highly important for environment monitoring, marine mammal protection, underwater communication and navigation. In this paper, we present the long-term statistics and wind dependence of near-bottom and deep-sea ambient noise in the northwest South China Sea, at a depth of 1240 m. The data were collected from 11th July 2022 to 31st December 2022 together with local wind speeds ranging from 1 to 58 knots (two typhoons involved), and the processing frequency band is between 20 and 2000 Hz. The long-term mean noise level is calculated along with its skewness, kurtosis and percentile distributions. Diurnal and monthly average of noise levels are analyzed, and the large fluctuations in lower (≤100 Hz) and higher (≥400 Hz) frequencies are respectively caused by the variation of the number of nearby and distant ships and the diverse distributions of the windspeeds in individual months. We find that the noise level in winter (Dec.) is 10~11 dB higher than that in summer (Jul.) at higher frequencies. The probability densities of noise levels in the situation of a fixed wind speed are likely to obey the Burr distributions in low frequencies (50 and 100 Hz) and the Weibull distributions in high frequencies (400 and 1000 Hz). In addition, the mean noise levels for different Beaufort scales match well with the 5-dB-addtion Wenz curves, and a mathematic relationship is acquired between the noise level and wind speed in the experimental site. The results are of great representativeness, and are significant to data-driven noise modelling, evaluation and improvement of sonar performance in the region of South China Sea with an incomplete deep-water sound channel.

Just another survey about #EO products for #soils? I understand if you are reluctant to take part.   However, this is the right time to express your wishes and requirements for a future Copernicus Land Monitoring Service for soils! - Which Earth Observation-derived products can help you reporting about soil health, soil quality and/or soil erosion? - What is the spatial scale that you are working on? - How should data access be organised? Together with our colleagues from ISRIC - World Soil Information and in support of European Environment Agency, European Commission (DG-DEFIS) and European Space Agency - ESA, we developed a survey to learn about users that need Earth Observation based soil products within the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service for their daily work. We ask for your help! Take the survey here: https://lnkd.in/ejGtXtiP We have developed this in the frame of our very ambitious project called CUP4SOIL (https://lnkd.in/e8VMcs-e). Many thanks to those who have already participated, we have received very valuable results and information!

In oceanography, Geographic Information Systems chart the depths, mapping currents, ecosystems, and coastal changes. It's a crucial tool for understanding and preserving the mysteries of our marine environments. #GET #GIS #Oceanography #MarineResearch

Continuing with what we've gone over with hydrometric and climate data collection, the next 2 weeks will focus on geomatics data collection. #nhceducation #geomatics

"But to fully understand a coastal zone - and the impact of human activity on it - we need to be able to consider and analyse the different characteristics of the zones and the complex interplay of variables that can impact these unique landscapes. The recently launched Copernicus Coastal Hub aims to facilitate this kind of comprehensive analysis by providing an integrated platform for accessing a wide range of coastal data." #satellitedata #remotesensing #coastalzone

🌍 Discover the power of satellite imagery with Esri's Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer! 🌿🌾 This tool provides insights into land cover changes from 2022 to 2023, offering a detailed look at environmental transformations. Perfect for researchers, environmentalists, and data enthusiasts. Dive in and explore the dynamic changes in our landscapes. Check it out here: Esri Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer. #EnvironmentalData #GIS #LandCover #Sustainability #TechForGood #SatelliteImagery #DataScience #EarthObservation #Geospatial #RemoteSensing #ClimateChange #LandUse #Biodiversity #EcoTech #MappingTheFuture #searchingparty #technology #innovation