#46 Weekly Remote Sensing and Geoscience news!
Free Advanced GATHERS School + Hackathon in Rome; ESA delays Vega C return to flight to late 2024; The "Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine" book has been published and is open-access!
These are the topics of our #46 newsletter issue:
🛰 Free Advanced GATHERS School + Hackathon in Rome
🛰 ESA delays Vega C return to flight to late 2024
🛰 The "Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine" book has been published and is open-access!
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Free Advanced GATHERS School + Hackathon in Rome
The registration for the Advanced GATHERS event is NOW OPEN!
The main topic of the school will assemble the theoretical and practical aspects in surface deformation monitoring:
➡️ Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
➡️ Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
➡️ Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) seismology
🆓 There is NO fee for participants of the event. The organizers will cover:
Accommodation in Rome
Coffee breaks
Lunches
Gala dinner
Social event in the city of Rome
Important dates
🚫 Registration deadline: 19th November 2023
📅 School: 12th - 15th February 2024
📅 Hackathon: 17th - 18th February 2024
📍 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
⚠️ If you want to join both events, registrations need to be done separately for the two events.
📰 More info and registration: Advanced GATHERS School in Italy – February 2024
Over the past year, I was privileged to participate in the GATHERS Summer School at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland. This experience was both enlightening and transformative. Check my reflections on this event in my LinkedIn post, and my daily highlights through this Twitter thread.
— Rafaela Tiengo
ESA delays Vega C return to flight to late 2024
The return to flight of Europe’s Vega C small launch vehicle has slipped to late 2024 after the European Space Agency concluded a rocket motor nozzle needs to be redesigned.
The Vega C manifest includes several launches for Copernicus, the joint Earth observation program of ESA and the European Commission. Among them is Sentinel-1C, a radar imaging satellite considered so critical that, at one point, ESA has discussed moving up its launch from the first half of 2023 before the Vega C launch failure took place last December. The spacecraft is too large to launch on the original Vega.
📰 More info: ESA delays Vega C return to flight to late 2024
The "Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine" book has been published and is open-access!
It contains 55 community-led chapters from 100+ authors!
First published book on Google Earth Engine, a platform with exponentially growing use.
The book is organized to allow users with multiple experience levels to easily find an entry point.
This book is open access, which means that readers have free and unlimited ability to use the materials.
📰 Access the book: Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
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— Rafaela Tiengo