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A new Heatwave is ongoing over western Europe
🛰️ The Land Surface Temperature measured by Sentinel 3 had already exceeded 60°C 🌡️
Copernicus Emergency has been activated to monitor wildfire in Portugal
🛰️ Several wildfires started in the Leiria and Santarem (Portugal) districts on July 07th, 2022, causing a threat to nearby settlements. Wildfires are developing mainly in a pine forest, with the line of fire extending for several kilometers.
🔥 A burnt scar of 8,954 ha has been detected.
🔗All the products from Copernicus Emergency Management Service to Portugal are available on the link below.
COPERNICUS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICE — emergency.copernicus.eu Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.
First images from Webb telescope reveal unseen Universe
The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its — www.linkedin.com
The telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data, which uncover a spectacular collection of cosmic features that have remained elusive until now, were released.
Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting
🛰️ The objective of the workshop is to bring together experts in Earth Observation and experts in Ecosystem Accounting to jointly discuss the key challenges that need to be addressed in order to use Earth Observation in compiling national ecosystem accounts to support national policies.
📆 28th November 2022 – 1st December 2022
⏰ 07:00 – 11:00 NY time
📍 Online event
2022 WORKSHOP ON EARTH OBSERVATION FOR ECOSYSTEM ACCOUNTING (EO4EA 2022) — eo4ea-2022.esa.int
The workshop is organized by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Environmental-Economic Account section of the United Nations Statistics Division and the Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting initiative of the Group on Earth Observations.