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SUMMARY:Open-Earth-Monitor Science Webinar - March 14th 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the latest edition of the OEMC Science Webinars! Thursday March 14th\, 2-3 PM (CET) on Zoom\nThe Open-Earth-Monitor project is pleased to invite you to the 12th edition of the Science Webinars\, our monthly discussions on topics related to earth observation and environmental monitoring\, hosted on the first Thursday of each month. \nFollow this link to register to the Zoom webinar and attend freely! \n\nTowards a global standard in GHG flux observations\nBy Simone Sabbatini\, Junior Researcher at the Euri-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) \n“Recent advancements in technology and increased understanding of scientific issues at a large scale have facilitated a broader perspective in numerous scientific studies\, thereby presenting novel challenges. Standardization and harmonization have emerged as pivotal concepts across various aspects of ecological research\, encompassing instrumentation\, methodologies\, data processing\, quality\, metadata. This talk will explore the evolution over the past three decades of in-situ measurements of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes worldwide\, from initial campaigns to the establishment of the FLUXNET community\, to investigate the current challenges and the possible advancements in this field.” \n\nKey aspects of the Copernicus satellite data management\nBy Dr. Jędrzej Bojanowski\, lead of the Data Science in Earth Observation department at CloudFerro \n“This talk will cover the key innovative aspects in Earth Observation data management introduced by the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem and its commercial component\, CREODIAS. These aspects include access to entire archives of Copernicus satellite data with immediate online availability\, a range of data access and processing APIs\, mechanisms for tracing data product integrity\, as well as tools for collaborative data analysis and visualization\, and support for custom data processing workflows.” \n\nDo not miss the upcoming OEMC science webinar\, on Thursday\, March 14th\, from 2 to 3 PM (CET)! Register here.  \n=> Stay in touch! Subscribe to our mailing list.
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/open-earth-monitor-science-webinar-march-14th-2024/
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SUMMARY:Science Webinar - 2nd May\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Open-Earth-Monitor project is pleased to invite you to the 13th edition of the Science Webinars\, starting this month with a new format focused on the project use cases. These talks and discussions will now be held once every two months and will host both use case leaders and stakeholders to discuss the project outputs and related outcomes. \nRegister now to attend the Zoom Webinar freely! \nJoin us to listen to the following presentations and ask experts your questions: \n1) Unveiling the location of cocoa farms across the pan-tropics by Dr Robert Masolele\, Post-doctoral researcher at Wageningen University (WUR) \nCocoa cultivation is a cornerstone of agricultural economies across the pan-tropical regions\, supporting millions of livelihoods and contributing significantly to global cocoa production. However\, accurately mapping cocoa farm locations remains difficult due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of tropical landscapes. To address this challenge\, Dr Masolele and his team’s research aims to employ deep learning methodologies to unveil the locations of cocoa farms across the pan-tropics. Through this research effort\, they aspire to provide valuable insights into cocoa farm locations\, facilitating sustainable cocoa production practices\, land management strategies\, and conservation efforts across the pan-tropical forests\, thus paving the way for informed decision-making. \n2) The SERVIR program\, from complex data to actionable information by Dr. Ate Poortinga\, currently employed by the Spatial Informatics Group in the SERVIR-Mekong project in Bangkok \nOver the past six years\, Dr. Ate Poortinga has been actively involved with the SERVIR program\, a collaboration between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and NASA. This program utilizes space technology\, open data\, and open science to address a wide range of environmental and development challenges. In his presentation\, Dr. Poortinga will explain how SERVIR leverages data and science from NASA\, the European Space Agency (ESA)\, and academic institutions to transform complex data into actionable information. This information aids governments\, academic institutions\, civil society\, and vulnerable communities in building resilience and promoting sustainable development.” \n=> Register now to attend the Zoom Webinar freely! \n=> Link to the invitation.
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/science-webinar-2nd-may-2024/
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SUMMARY:GEO-OPEN-HACK-2024: Big Geospatial Data Hackathon with Open Infrastructure and Tools
DESCRIPTION:Find out more on the official event page.
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/geo-open-hack-2024-big-geospatial-data-hackathon-with-open-infrastructure-and-tools/
LOCATION:IIASA\, Schloßpl. 1\, Laxenburg\, 2361\, Austria
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SUMMARY:Co-developement sessions
DESCRIPTION:More information to come soon.
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/co-developement-sessions/
LOCATION:IIASA\, Schloßpl. 1\, Laxenburg\, 2361\, Austria
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SUMMARY:Global Workshop 2024
DESCRIPTION:Jointly organized by OpenGeoHub foundation (OGH) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)\, the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2024 will bring together European and global actors in the field of open-source Earth Observation applications in policy\, business\, research and for society. \nThis international event will connect project partners\, including data and environmental researchers\, public and private sector developers\, EU decision- and policymakers\, representatives from global institutions\, the business sector and civil society to discuss and test solutions to the greatest challenges in geospatial applications. \nThrough three days featuring international keynote speakers\, oral presentations\, poster presentations\, and demonstrative workshops\, the participants of the OEMC Global Workshop 2024 will explore valuable opportunities and establish tangible collaborations to improve geospatial research and application products in open-source. \nFind out more: https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2024/
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/global-workshop-2024/
LOCATION:Laxenburg Conference Center\, Schloßpl. 1\, Laxenburg\, 2361\, Austria
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SUMMARY:Open-Earth-Monitor Science Webinar - May 8th 2025
DESCRIPTION:The case of forest monitoring using vegetation vigour evolution over phenological cycles \nBy Codrina Maria Ilie\nTerrasigna  \nThe opportunity provided by the Earth Observation programs to monitor forests across the globe has been taken very seriously by researchers\, not-for-profit organisations\, governments\, as well as private companies in the last 7 decades and\, as a result\, the panoply of related EO based products and services has improved constantly and significantly. Given their prevalence\, within the OpenEarthMonitor the team\, in collaboration with the stakeholders\, researched potential improvements that could be brought to the existing portfolio. In this context\, we have defined a new\, interesting and useful addition to the already known EO-based products for forest monitoring: the forest vegetation vigour. \nThe vegetation vigour (VV) product is a custom type of pixel-based index that characterises the vegetation during long periods of time\, preferably during a complete phenological cycle\, based on NDVI values. The product does not represent a snapshot of the vegetation\, but it characterises its cumulative state over time. For each pixel\, the VV is proportionally higher as the NDVI values are higher\, over the entire analysed period. Thus\, the VV can be used to qualitatively compare regions of classes of vegetation\, over multiple phenological cycles.  \nSix sample regions have been chosen to address different forestry ecoregions\, including shrubs to test the hypothesis that the new algorithm can be successfully used in regions with highly diverse types of vegetation.  Also\, there is high emphasis on the qualitative nature of the generated product and thus the requirement for a technical specialist to determine the thresholds with respect to the events identified within the product.  \nThe data is available on zenodo.org\, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14712961. \nIn this talk\, the authors will showcase the utility of the vegetation vigour EO-based product\, as well as its limitations. \n  \nBeyond the Canopy: Seeing the Forest from the Trees with UAV and Terrestrial Mobile LiDAR \nBy Mihai Daniel Nita 1\,2 \n1 Department of Forest Engineering\, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements\, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering\, at Transilvania University of Brașov\, Romania \n2SC Forest Design SRL \nComplex forest ecosystems\, particularly those with multilayered canopies and dense understories\, present persistent challenges for accurate and complete geo-spatial data collection. This presentation investigates how UAV-mounted LiDAR systems and terrestrial mobile LiDAR scanners can be combined to effectively penetrate forest canopies and map what lies beneath—enabling a comprehensive understanding of forest structure from canopy top to forest floor. Focusing on a case study from Carpathian Mountains\, Romania\, we present an integrated workflow that couples aerial LiDAR for upper-canopy characterization with mobile ground-based scanning for detailed reconstruction of tree stems\, understory vegetation\, and microtopography. \nTo bridge scales and extend insights beyond plot-level data\, we integrate these terrestrial and UAV-derived point clouds with satellite-derived products\, including canopy height models and forest cover maps from missions such as GEDI and Sentinel. This multi-source data fusion not only enhances vertical profiling of forests but also serves as a foundational layer for building and updating forest digital twins. We explore whether digital twinning in forestry is merely conceptual or already a practical reality—highlighting automated data processing workflows\, calibration between sensor types\, and implications for biomass estimation and ecosystem monitoring. The talk concludes with perspectives on scaling these approaches for regional forest assessments and supporting sustainable management under climate change scenarios. \nDo not miss the upcoming OEMC science webinar\, on Thursday\, June 5th\, from 2 to 3 PM (CET)! Register here.  \n=> Stay in touch! Subscribe to our mailing list. \n 
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/open-earth-monitor-science-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Open-Earth-Monitor Science Webinar - June 5th 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the latest edition of the OEMC Science Webinars! Thursday March 14th\, 2-3 PM (CET) on Zoom\nThe Open-Earth-Monitor project is pleased to invite you to the 12th edition of the Science Webinars\, our monthly discussions on topics related to earth observation and environmental monitoring\, hosted on the first Thursday of each month. \nFollow this link to register to the Zoom webinar and attend freely! \n_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDiscrete Global Grid Systems: Towards Less Distorted Geospatial Data \nSatellite imagery is traditionally stored and processed on rectangular grids. However\, the widespread usage of such grids has normalized their inherent distortions\, particularly near the poles. Previous attempts to address this issue\, such as employing multiple local projections like the UTM-based Sentinel 2 L1C grid\, have led to inefficiencies\, including a significant increase in data volume (~30%) due to overlaps that need to be stored\, downloaded\, and processed. Additionally\, there is a lack of a unified global indexing system and the choice of pixel cell shape\, which further complicate the analysis. In this talk\, we advocate for a paradigm shift towards Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) to mitigate these challenges. DGGS tessellate the Earth’s surface with hierarchical cells of equal area\, minimizing distortion and reducing loading time of large geospatial datasets. This approach would greatly improve spatial statistics and convolutional Machine Learning models\, where accurate representation of global phenomena is paramount at a global scale. In particular\, we present the Julia package DGGS.jl to work with DGGS native raster data cubes \n_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ \n=> Stay in touch! Subscribe to our mailing list.
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/open-earth-monitor-science-webinar-june-5th-2025/
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SUMMARY:Global Workshop 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Open Earth Monitor — Global Workshop 2025 “Open EO data and open source software as a foundation for monitoring the European Green Deal”\, the 4th global workshop of the Open Earth Monitor Project\, will be held in Belgrade\, Serbia. This workshop is co-organized by OpenGeoHub Foundation\, Belgrad University\, Department of Geoinformatics and Gilab. \nDuring these 3 days workshop\, we will host technical and application topics discussion around Open EO Data. \nFind out more: https://earthmonitor.org/events/global-workshop-2025/
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/global-workshop-2025/
LOCATION:Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – University of Perugia in Italy\, Via G. Duranti\, 93\, Perugia\, 06125\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2026
DESCRIPTION:The final Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop is taking place 7–9 October 2026 in Barcelona\, Spain\, and is co-organized by OpenGeoHub Foundation and CREAF. This fifth and final edition will be a key milestone for the project\, showcasing the OEMC’s final tools and results\, while bringing together the global Earth Observation and open-source community around the theme: Next-Generation EO & GeoAI Built on Openness and Distributed Data. This public event will focus on showcasing the project’s final tools and outputs\, fostering a dialogue on next-generation Earth Observation and GeoAI solutions built on openness\, distributed data\, and real-world user needs across policy\, science\, and industry. \nWith an impressive lineup that includes the Director of CREAF\, experts from the German Aerospace Center\, the World Resources Institute (WRI)\, the Netherlands Space Office\, Cambridge University\, Eurac Research\, and more\, we are bringing together some of the most renowned experts in EO data to present and discuss the latest developments in the field and the outputs of OEMC after a 4-year project. \nTo participate in the final workshop\, please submit an abstract for an oral presentation\, a workshop session\, or a poster session. The science committee will review all proposals\, and the best-ranked proposals will then be selected to be part of the program. \n  \nEvent link: https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2026/ \nAbstract Submission: https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2026/cfp
URL:https://earthmonitor.org/events/open-earth-monitor-global-workshop-2026/
LOCATION:Casa de Convalescència\, Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret\, 171\, Horta-Guinardó\, 08041\, Barcelona\, Spain
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