#29 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news! 🛰️🌍

Planet to Acquire Sinergise Business to Expand its Data Analysis Platform; Innospace Test Launches HANBIT-TLV From Brazil Successfully; 3 ESAs Earth Explorer Missions extended to 2025. [12 job offers]

These are the topics of our #29 newsletter issue:

🛰 Planet to Acquire Sinergise Business to Expand its Data Analysis Platform

🛰 Innospace Test Launches HANBIT-TLV From Brazil Successfully

🛰 Three ESA's Earth Explorer Missions extended to 2025

🛰 Google Carbon Removal Research Awards

🛰 12 job offers and opportunities

🛰 6 courses

🛰 Week's recommended reading

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Planet to Acquire Sinergise Business to Expand its Data Analysis Platform

👩🏾‍💻 Planet expects this acquisition to lower the barriers for current and new Planet customers to access and act on EO data. The addition of Sinergise’s platform capabilities is expected to further enable customers to more easily extract insights from various sources of satellite data and partners to build their own applications on top of Planet’s platform to gain additional value from EO data.

📰 Read more: Planet to Acquire Sinergise Business to Expand its Data Analysis Platform

📰 Thoughts on Planet's acquisition of Sinergise (by Aravind)

Planet @planet

Exciting news out of our Q4FY23 earnings! We shared plans to acquire the business of @sinergise, developer of the leading EO platform, @sentinel_hub, to accelerate our platform strategy & make our data more usable to decision makers in business and govt: go.planet.com/sinergise

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Innospace Test Launches HANBIT-TLV From Brazil Successfully

🚀 Hanbit-TLV, a South Korean space vehicle launched from a space center in Brazil, made a successful flight, becoming the first domestic civilian test launch vehicle.

📰 Read more: Civilian-made space vehicle Hanbit-TLV makes successful flight

📰 Read more [in Portuguese]: FAB e empresa sul-coreana lançam foguete da base de Alcântara

innospacecorp @innospacecorp

Lift-off!! HANBIT-TLV lifted off from the Alcântara Space Center in Brazil, March 19 at 2:52 p.m. BRT. After being confirmed a analysis of engine and flight data, we will update the success of the engine verification soon.

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Three ESA's Earth Explorer Missions extended to 2025

The three ESA missions extended to 2025 were:

🛰️ SMOS

🛰️ CryoSAT

🛰️ SWARM

📰 Read more: ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025

esa cryosat mission @esa_cryosat

🪩 BIG NEWS 🪩 @esa's ice mission has been extended until 2025! 🤩 So have two other excellent Earth Explorers, SMOS 🌊 & #SwarmMission 🧲 That means #CryoSat's longest ever continuous record of global ice will continue in earnest! ❄️🛰️📊🥳 ❄️ℹ️👉earth.esa.int/eogateway/news…

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Google Carbon Removal Research Awards

🌍 Google announced the Google Carbon Removals Research Awards to support academic research focused on carbon removal approaches.

🌍 With these awards, Google will sponsor academic research programs that address important research questions related to carbon removal to help accelerate the development of a global carbon removals sector.

🌍 This research will also support their efforts to reach net zero emissions across all of their operations and value chain by 2030.

⚠️ Academic researchers can submit proposals that support up to three PhD students for up to three years.

📰 Read more: Apply now for our new Carbon Removal Research Awards

Google @Google

Investing in climate change research is critical for the future of our planet — which is why we’re announcing the Google Carbon Removal Research Awards, to fund academic research on carbon removal approaches. Learn more and apply today ↓

blog.googleApply now for our new Carbon Removal Research AwardsThe Google Carbon Removals Research Awards is a new initiative to support and accelerate exploration into promising tools for delivering carbon removals at a global scale.

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Job offers and opportunities

➡️ 3 Three PhD Fully Funded Positions in Environmental Science (Wageningen University, Netherlands)

➡️ Analytics Engineer (Planet)

➡️ Internal Research Fellow in Earth Observation for Earth System Science (ESA)

➡️ Engineering & CubeSat Education Training Coordinator (Space Applications Services)

➡️ Space and Science Copywriter with Social Media Expertise (ALSO Space)

➡️ EO Data visualisation specialist (ALSO Space)

➡️ Head of the Communication Department (ESA)

➡️ Web Development for the ocean, blue economy and climate change (+ATLANTIC)

➡️ Google Carbon Removal Research Awards

➡️ 4 years fully funded for PhD: “Charting the limits of tree growth resilience to climate extremes across Europe’s forests” (University of Bristol)

➡️ Forestry Officer: Remote Sensing (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

➡️ Associate Geospatial Information Officer (United Nations Global Service Centre)

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Courses

➡️ ESA Academy’s CubeSat Hands-On Training Week 2023

➡️ Marine Robotics Summer School 2023

➡️ IMPROVE Summer School 2023

➡️ NASA ARSET: Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Earth Science

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

➡️ NASA ARSET: Application of NASA SPoRT-Land Information System (SPoRT-LIS) Soil Moisture Data for Drought

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Week's recommended reading

My current research is focused on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change which means that I will recommend more papers on this subject. :)

This research study collected approximately four hundred research articles and investigated five areas of interest, including:

1. LULC definitions;

2. Classification systems used to classify LULC globally;

3. Direct and indirect changes of meta-studies associated with LULC;

4. Challenges associated with LULC;

5. LULC knowledge gaps.

📰 Read the paper: A Synthesis of Land Use/Land Cover Studies: Definitions, Classification Systems, Meta-Studies, Challenges and Knowledge Gaps on a Global Landscape

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

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