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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by countries to preserve our oceans and forests, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth. The land management SDGs call for consistent tracking of land cover metrics. These metrics include productivity, land cover, soil carbon, urban expansion, and more.
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Following on from the “15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” Symposium in 2006, and the “20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” Symposium in 2012, both deemed a very successful landmark by the participants and the readership of the Proceedings, we have now reached the 25-year anniversary of the first supply of ERS-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon
Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores Archipelago
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Co-Chairs: Jérôme Benveniste (ESA) and Pascal Bonnefond (Observatoire de Paris - SYRTE) Members: S. Coutin-Faye (CNES), N. Bellefond (CNES), L. Amen (CNES), P. Ferrage (CNES), S. Cheli (ESA), R. Meisner (ESA), A.-L. Pichler (ESA Conference Bureau, Nikal) , F. Parisot (EUMETSAT), G. Kerrmann (EUMETSAT)
On 7 March 2017 ESA launched the new Sentinel-2B satellite from the Kourou spatial station in French Guyana as a twin to the Sentinel-2A which has been in
GOES-16 is the first spacecraft of NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) next-generation geostationary satellites. NASA informed on 23 January 2017 that it had sent the first high-
VITO is a leading European independent research and technology organisation in the areas of cleantech and sustainable development, elaborating solutions for the large societal challenges of today.
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, based in Pasadena, California is developing a new network of space-based sensors called FireSat in collaboration with the private company Quadra Pi R2E, which is based in San Francisco, California. The new sensors are designed to improve the detection of wildfires. FireSat is expected to be launched by June 2018.
In 2008, Landsat Earth observation images became available to all users free of charge. Since then, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) portal has provided roughly 30 million Landsat Earth observation images for users to download. Within the next years, downloads of
metrics. These metrics include productivity, land cover, soil carbon, urban expansion, and more.
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