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#26 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news! 🛰️🌍

Landslides in São Paulo, Brazil (update), Landsat 9 TIRS Anomaly, new features for ESA&NASA altimetry portal, Scene From Above Podcast: new episode, ESA Biomass satellite in 2024, and more!

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Mar 4, 2023
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#26 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news! 🛰️🌍

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These are the topics of our #26 newsletter issue:

🛰 Landslides in São Paulo, Brazil
🛰 Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor Anomaly
🛰 ESA is hiring!
🛰 NASA Training: Crop Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Remote Sensing
🛰 2023 Global Space Conference on Climate Change
🛰 New features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal
🛰 ESA Biomass satellite will be launched in 2024
🛰 Scene From Above Podcast: new episode
🛰 Week's recommended reading

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Landslides in São Paulo, Brazil

As mentioned in our last newsletter issue, 627mm of rain fell in 24 hours, twice the expected amount for the month.

📰 BBC News: São Paulo: Dozens killed as deadly storms hit Brazilian coast

The geographer Jéssia Uchôa updated her Google Earth Engine application in order to better identify the number of landslides and the result is impressive! Worth a look!

📰 You can also check Jéssica's LinkedIn post about it.

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Jéssica Uchôa 🇧🇷🛰️ @JessicaUchoa_
I've just updated my application with the new #Sentinel2 image (February 25). The amount of #landslides in São Paulo (#Brazil 🇧🇷) is impressive! ⚠️⛈️ 🔗 Access the app: jessicaguchoa.users.earthengine.app/view/so-paulo
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Jéssica Uchôa 🇧🇷🛰️ @JessicaUchoa_
🚨 Flooding and landslides in São Paulo #Brazil⛈️🇧🇷 I created an app on the #GoogleEarthEngine using #Sentinel2 for #SãoPaulo coastal areas where ~46 people died due to heavy rains in recent days (since 18 Feb 2023) 🔗 Access the app: https://t.co/x8yiuCThlF #EOchat #GISchat https://t.co/rZtLo1nRI3
1:54 AM ∙ Feb 26, 2023
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Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor Anomaly

🛰️ On the afternoon of February 27, 2023, the USGS/NASA Flight Operations Team (FOT) noticed dropped electrical currents in the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS).

🛰️ Landsat 9 Collection 2 Level-1 product processing was immediately paused to allow the FOT to investigate and determine the cause.

➡️ The Landsat 9 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor was not affected by this anomaly.

📰 USGS news: Recent Landsat 9 TIRS anomaly pauses processing of new Landsat 9 data

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USGS Landsat @USGSLandsat
#LandsatHeadline: On the afternoon of February 27, 2023, @USGS/@NASA noticed dropped electrical currents in the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS). Landsat 9 Collection 2 Level-1 product processing was immediately paused to allow for investigation. ow.ly/UZv750N6nLY
On the afternoon of February 27, 2023, the @USGS/@NASA Flight Operations Team noticed dropped electrical currents in the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS). Landsat 9 Collection 2 Level-1 product processing was immediately paused to allow the FOT to investigate and determine the cause. This anomaly did not affect the Landsat 9 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor.
7:29 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023
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ESA is hiring!

There are a lot of opportunities in various fields such as:

🛰️ Engineering

🛰️ Science

🛰️ Business Services

...and more!

That's worth a look! Best of luck to you! 🍀

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Sofia Santos @sofiafs
#ESA is hiring! Over 30 vacancies have just been published in engineering, science and business services and many more are to come throughout the year. Explore our opportunities and join us in space! #ESArecruits
jobs.esa.intESA - Career opportunitiesWelcome to the European Space Agency’s recruiting site. Explore our vacancies and take your career to the next level. Whether you are an experienced professional, graduate or student, discover the impact you could make in one of our multi-cultural teams k
8:19 AM ∙ Mar 2, 2023

NASA Training: Crop Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Remote Sensing

By the end of this training attendees will be able to:

🛰️ Monitor crop growth with polarimetric time series SAR data from Sentinel-1

🛰️ Examine crop growth using a canopy structure dynamic model and time series of Sentinel-1 imagery

🛰️ Classify crop type using a time series of radar and optical imagery (Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2)

Available in English: Crop Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Remote Sensing

Also available in Spanish // También en español: Mapeo de Cultivos Usando Radar de Apertura Sintética (SAR) y Teledetección Óptica

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Artur Gil @ajfgil
NASA-ARSET Advanced Webinar: Crop Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Remote Sensing April 4, 6, & 11, 2023 | 10:00-12:30 EDT (UTC-4) appliedsciences.nasa.gov/join-mission/t… [Webinar in Spanish]:
appliedsciences.nasa.govARSET - Mapeo de Cultivos Usando Radar de Apertura Sintética (SAR) y Teledetección Óptica | NASA Applied Sciences
7:12 PM ∙ Feb 13, 2023
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2023 Global Space Conference on Climate Change

GLOC 2023 will focus on the theme "Fire and Ice – Space for Climate Action" and will address various topics of interest in relation to space and climate change with a specific focus on:

🌍 Climate change impacts on the environment

🌍 Applications and services driven by climate change

🌍 Impacts of a changing climate on policy and law

🌍 Commercial opportunities created by a changing climate

🌍 Present and future international collaboration on space missions related to climate change

🌍 Social, communications, economic and cultural dimensions of environmental change

📅 23 - 25 May 2023

📍 Oslo, Norway

⚠️ Check out the IAF GLOC 2023 Students Grant Programme: The IAF GLOC 2023 Students Grant Programme offers up to 10 grants to participate in the IAF Global Space Conference on Climate Change – GLOC 2023


New features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal

Users can now:

❄️ Find known locations fast

❄️ View Sentinel imagery coincident with results

❄️ Latitude/longitude helper lines and polar stereographic coordinates

❄️ CryoVEx GIS previews

❄️ New NASA IceBridge sea ice quick look dataset

📰 ESA news: Stunning new features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal cs2eo.org

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esa cryosat mission @esa_cryosat
❄️ NEWS ❄️ *Stunning* new features for @esa & NASA altimetry portal cs2eo.org to support, enhance, & simplify research on ice in polar regions. Inc: 🗺️ Search by IMBIE & RGI polygons 📸 Sentinel imagery 🌐 Lat/Lon helper lines &more. Info👉earth.esa.int/eogateway/news…
11:30 AM ∙ Feb 24, 2023
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ESA Biomass satellite will be launched in 2024

🛰️ After months of successful testing, ESA announced that this new earth explorer mission is a few steps closer to its mission.

🌳 The mission’s ‘P-band’ long wavelength, synthetic aperture radar will deliver completely new information on global forest biomass. This not only includes the trunk of the tree but also its bark and branches, says ESA.

🛰️ The Biomass satellite will be launched atop a Vega rocket from Europe’s Kourou Spaceport in 2024.

📰 Forbes: ESA Biomass Satellite Set To Map Earth’s Essential Old Growth Forests

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Airbus Space @AirbusSpace
Measuring carbon in our forests 🌳 is essential to protect the Earth from climate change. #Biomass, an Airbus-built satellite 🛰 for @esa that just finished its solar arrays deployment tests ✅, will provide scientists with this vital information to assess carbon stocks & fluxes.
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5:01 PM ∙ Feb 23, 2023
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Scene From Above Podcast: new episode

🎧 Looking for something to listen this weekend? Well... I have a suggestion! :)

🎙️ This episode features Sabrina Szeto, who is a geospatial consultant who empowers organizations to use geospatial data and technology.

🎙️ She is a Google Developer Expert for Earth Engine. Sabrina has a Masters in Forestry from Yale University and a BA in Anthropology from Princeton University.

🎙️ She also is the co-founder and former Director of Women+ in Geospatial.

...and, of course, the news segment with me. :)

Twitter avatar for @eoscenefrom
Scene From Above Podcast @eoscenefrom
Our newest episode of #SceneFromAbove with special guest @SabrinaSzeto has launched TODAY! 🚀✨ Tune in to learn about @SabrinaSzeto's work with #GoogleEarthEngine & #EarthEngineUserMeetup, advocacy through @geospatialwomen, & more! 🎉🛰️ #EOChat #gischat scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/s13e5-empowe…
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5:08 PM ∙ Mar 2, 2023
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Week's recommended reading

Are you interested in analyzing land use/land cover changes using Artificial Neural Network algorithm? So, this paper can be helpful to you! :)

📰 “Detection of Multitemporal Changes with Artificial Neural Network-Based Change Detection Algorithm Using Hyperspectral Dataset”

In this paper, the potential of the hyperspectral dataset Hyperion EO-1 is evaluated in estimating LULC multitemporal changes using a straightforward artificial neural network-based post-classification comparison change detection approach.

📰 You can check all my recommended papers at the bottom below:

Recommended Readings


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