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Copernicus Academy CZ Newsletter 04/2024

Check out the April issue of the Copernicus Academy Newsletter! What you will find in it:📅 Invitation to our next event we are organizing – Information Day on Digital Earth, to be held in Prague on 13 May 2024🌐 Introduction to the Copernicus Climate Atlas (Copernicus ECMWF)🌍 Introducing EarthMap.org (Open Foris & FAO)📌 What in-situ […]

New article on automatic forest cover classification in GEE

📢 Our latest paper, in collaboration with Katarína Onačillová and Veronika Krištofová from Univerzita ‘Pavla Jozefa Šafárika’ v Košiciach, introduces an automatic forest cover classification pipeline in Google Earth Engine to classify forest layers at country level. 🌳🛰️ We harnessed the power of Sentinel-2 satellite data and machine learning algorithms in Google Earth Engine (GEE) to create countrywide classifications of forests in Slovakia spanning from […]

Daniel Paluba won the third place in the prestigious European Space Agency “Get Space Inspired” competition

Combining a passion for travel with research in remote sensing data analysis – that’s the idea behind the proposed SatPlanner project by our team member, Daniel Paluba, which won a great 3rd place in the European Space Agency’s “Get Space Inspired” competition! The aim of the Get Space Inspired competition was to gather ideas for […]

Don’t be afraid to teach remote sensing in schools!

Remote sensing and climate change were the main topics of a seminar organized within the GLOBE Regional Meeting for Europe and Eurasia (2023.globemeeting.eu). Almost 100 teachers, scientists and GLOBE programme coordinators met in Riga, Latvia, on 18-20 October. The GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program is an international science and education […]

First results from our wildfire research

We are happy to share that our recent research on monitoring of the Greek wildfires using Sentinel-1 SAR data, presented at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) conference IGARSS 2023, is finally published. The paper named “Unsupervised Burned Area Mapping in Greece: Investigating the impact of precipitation, pre- and post-processing of Sentinel-1 data in Google […]

EO4Educators 2023

International Summer School on Earth Observation for Educators July 17-21, Prague, Charles University. The EO4Educators 2023 International Summer School on Earth Observation for Educators is set to take place in Prague, Czechia from the 17th to the 21st of July. The aim of the summer school is to promote and give hands-on training around Remote […]

Exhibition: Earth’s Beauties seen from Space

We invite you to discover the world through satellite pictures by Copernicus Sentinels. This exhibition is not only nice images from space but also images captured by Copernicus satellite. We invite you to discover the world through pictures captured by Copernicus Sentinels. Copernicus is the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme, which monitors our planet, its […]

We are organizing Trans-Atlantic Training 2022!

Dear colleagues, I am writing to let you know about the forthcoming Trans-Atlantic Training 2022 “A Changing Eastern Europe: New Challenges for Science and Capacity Building in Land Remote Sensing”, which will take place from 5 to 9 September 2022 and will be hosted by Charles University, Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Prague, Czechia (https://web.natur.cuni.cz/gis/tat). […]