#19 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news! 🛰️🌍

📢 The Remote Sensing and Geoscience news in 5 minutes.

First, a great and successful 2023! Hope you all had a nice near year's eve.

If you didn't have a good year's eve, don't worry. Those days won't define your whole year. Everything is gonna be ok. I am sure of it. :)

I wish you all the best.

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Scene From Above Podcast: new episode

This time, in our native language with over 280 million native speakers: Portuguese!

[English below] Tópicos do episódio:

➡️ Bioma Amazônia

➡️ Aumento do desmatamento nos últimos anos

➡️ Nova regulamentação da União Europeia proíbe a compra de produtos oriundos de desmatamento

➡️ Alemanha e Noruega estão dispostas a retomar financiamento do Fundo Amazônia

➡️ Uso de dados de Sensoriamento Remoto e Observação da Terra para monitoramento da Amazônia

Topics:

➡️ Amazon Biome

➡️ Amazon deforestation in recent years

➡️ European Union's new regulation about deforestation-free products

➡️ Germany and Norway will resume funding from the Amazon Fund

➡️ Remote Sensing and Earth Observation data applied to monitoring the Amazon deforestation

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Course: Cartography using ArcGIS Pro

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Course: Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action

Interested in digital platforms and tools for more effective forest and land monitoring?

The course focuses on how the SEPAL platform can support land and forest monitoring to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite imagery to the critical forest and land monitoring in tropical forest countries.

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Rocio Condor @rocio_condor

📢 Are you interested in digital platforms and tools for more effective forest and land monitoring?? 🗓 #SafeDate 24 March to 7 May 2023 👉bit.ly/course_sepal offered - English, French and Spanish - free and open to all #GenerationRestoration #SEPAL #LearningSEPAL

Landsat Collection 1 Dataset was removed on December 30, 2022

This removal includes all Collection 1 Level-1, Level-2, Level-3, and ESPA- related Landsat 1-8 products. Collection 1 has not been updated with Landsat products since December 31, 2021 and does not include Landsat 9 data.

Users are encouraged to migrate their workflow to Landsat Collection 2 as soon as possible.

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USGS Landsat @USGSLandsat

⚠️ All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products in the USGS archives will become unavailable in 11 days. ⚠️ ESPA orders for Landsat Collection 1-based products have ended. Please contact USGS Customer Services with any questions 🔗 ow.ly/etaV50LWXNJ

SNAP software has started a blog

Don't miss out on the SNAP software updates on the blog and check out the latest news below:

Rafaela Tiengo 🇧🇷🛰️ @RafaelaTiengo_

Great news! SNAP has a blog now! 🎉🛰️ ➡️ On the first post: "We'll focus on enhancing the documentation and adding new tutorials (...) We'll enhance performance and improve the software architecture (...) There will be new features & updates for the optical & SAR domain" #EOchat

SNAP Toolbox @esa_snap

📝 We have started a new blog 📝 Today we report about the kick-off and give hints what will come next. We will keep you posted this way about the progress in SNAP Toolbox development. https://t.co/qkgVjKaeo4

Thanks for reading! See you next week!