Organisation: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Location: Online training/webinar

Course Overview:

Every year, environmental conditions adversely affect the health of millions of people. Environmental data can be combined with public health information to predict and monitor potentially dangerous environmental health events, such as disease outbreaks, harmful algal blooms, excessive heat, airborne allergens, and low air quality.

In this advanced webinar, participants will learn how to access and apply NASA data relevant to public health. The webinar will include a presentation on tools available for evaluating the relationship between environmental conditions and health outcomes, followed by lectures on pollen dispersal and heat stress mitigation. Two homework assignments will give participants an opportunity to review and practice what they have learned during the presentations.

The course will have weekly, one-hour live broadcasts available twice a day at either 10:00-11:00 or 15:00-16:00 EDT (UTC-4).

Organisation: European Space Agency (ESA)

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Conference objectives:

• Bring together the global InSAR community;
• Present latest InSAR results exploiting Sentinel-1 data and S-1A/B interferometry;
• Provide a forum for ESA PIs and scientists to present InSAR projects results;
• Assess the maturity of InSAR applications and the state of the art in the field;
• Facilitate international exchange on InSAR Research, development and applications;
• Present the Sentinel-1 mission status, algorithms and products;
• Review and assess the progress according to the recommendations voiced at FRINGE 2015;
• Consult scientists to prepare ESA for starting supporting science activities for Sentinel-1.

Organisation: SPLIT

Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Conference Overview:

This intensive and advanced, 5-day learning event, presents best insights into most recent techniques learned from top international professors and researchers through hands-on sessions and lectures.

Organisation: Diversified Communications UK

Location: London, United Kingdom

Conference Overview:

Presenting the latest developments in this fast moving industry. Hear leading industry experts presenting papers on how geospatial solutions have enabled projects to run more efficiently, ensuring that they are delivered on time, whilst saving money and reducing risk.

Organisation: AGSE (Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment)

Location: Kish, Iran

Conference overview:

The overall scope of this conferences is to offer an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the science and application of Geoinformatics with focus on developing countries. Besides invited keynotes the conference invites presentations to a variety of topics. There will also be professional training and workshops about current topics in the fields of Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry.

The school will focus on "Crisis and Disaster Management", i.e., the contribution of Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing, and Planning to preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation of disasters.

Organisations: EGU

Location: Vienna, Austria

Workshop Overview:

The EGU General Assembly 2017 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna.

Organisation: Wessex Institute

Location: Cadiz, Spain

Workshop Overview:

The aim of the Conference is to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between scientists, engineers, socio-economic specialists and other professionals working in ecological systems and sustainable development. Emphasis will be given to those areas that will most benefit from the application of scientific methods for sustainable development, including the conservation of natural systems around the world.

Topics will include:

• Energy systems and the environment
• Sustainable development and planning
• Ecosystem modelling
• Environmental innovative approaches
• Natural resources management
• Protection and mitigation
• Economic and social issues

Organisations: Westminster Forum Projects (WFP)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Seminar Overview:

In the context of the British Government's ongoing target for the UK to capture 10% of the global space market by 2030, delegates at this conference will consider key opportunities and challenges ahead for the UK space industry.

The seminar is timed to facilitate discussion between policymakers and stakeholders as the UK Space Agency considers responses to its consultation on a new strategy for how the National Space Policy principles of growth, safety and security and collaboration can be put into practice, and to ensure that the strategic importance of the industry is recognised.

Delegates will also assess the implications of the ESA Council of Ministers for the funding of UK projects for the next four years. Further planned sessions will discuss infrastructure as the government considers the location for the UK's first national spaceport, as well as future priorities for trade, investment and sector skills following the EU-referendum result.

Organisation: EARSel

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Conference overview:

EARSeL's Special Interest Group on Imaging Spectroscopy aims at encouraging interdisciplinary discussions among specialists working with innovative Earth Observation methods and technologies.

After almost 20 years, the 10th workshop goes back to its roots at the University of Zurich where the first meeting took place at the Remote Sensing Laboratories (RSL) in 1998.

For this anniversary, we welcome contributions related to any topic in spectroscopy!

Organisation: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Location: Online training/webinar

Conference objectives:

Air pollution caused by particles with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less (PM2.5) can reduce visibility and adversely affect human health. As a result, the United Nations has addressed this type of pollution in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recently, annual mean PM2.5 maps have been developed using MODIS, MISR, and SeaWiFS observations from 1998-2015 and have been used by organisations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and Greenpeace, to assess global air quality and health impacts.

In this webinar, participants will become familiar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the satellite observations of air quality that are used to calculate indicators 3.9.1 and 11.6.2. This training will cover accessing the data, analysing long-term trends, and combining PM2.5 and population data sets to understand long-term exposure.

Course Dates: Three, one-hour sessions on 15, 22 and 29 March.

Organisation: European Space Agency (ESA)

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada

Registration deadline: 01 March 2017

Workshop overview:

The meeting will provide a unique and timely forum for scientists and end-users of CryoSat data to share the state-of-the-art in research and applications, review mission achievements and prepare for the continued use of the CryoSat mission in the future.

Organisation: European Space Agency (ESA)

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada

Workshop overview:

In these co-located meetings the European Space Agency aims to address science, applications and services in the context of its Earth Explorer series of missions, ranging in focus from the Earth's outer core to the magnetosphere. Specifically, as the Swarm mission is about to complete three years of extremely successful science operations, the meeting will bring together the wider international scientific community to explore and develop scientific and application synergies and to propel the mission into its next phase.

Organisation: European Space Agency (ESA)

Location: ESA-ESRIN - Frascati, Italy

Conference objectives:

• Listen and capture multi-user requirements (climate modellers, geographers, scientists, environmentalists) for high and low resolution land cover mapping;
• Head towards the development of a Sustainable Operational System for Land Cover Classifications to meet the user's needs;
• Follow on the previous successful experiences: IGBP-DISCover, GLC-2000, GlobCover 2005, GlobCover 2009, GlobeLand30, and CCI Land Cover;
• Produce a set of recommendations for the funding and implementation agencies;
• Establish a set of Research and Development activities to be carried out to meet the user requirements.

Organisation: Climate Change Service

Location: Toulouse, France

Workshop Overview:

The Copernicus Climate Change Service is holding its inaugural General Assembly over five days, 6 - 10 March 2017 in Toulouse, France, for providers, users and potential users alike.

Topics will include:

• provide updates on the latest developments to the service;
• gather and share user requirements and feedback on the service so far and its various proof-of-concept activities;
• share the knowledge and experience of the current C3S providers across the various components of the Service;
• facilitate networking and brainstorming sessions for the climate change community in the context of an operational C3S.

Organisation: European Space Agency (ESA)

Location: ESA-ESRIN - Frascati, Italy

Conference overview:

The objective of this workshop is to gather experts in the different fields involved in vicarious adjustment and open a wide range debate on the best way to go for future long term vicarious infrastructure.

The Copernicus programme represents a major evolution of Ocean Colour Radiometry (OCR). Going operational with the S3 OLCI series provides the guarantee of a continuous flow of consistent products. OCR relies on vicarious adjustments to ensure accuracy on geophysical products. To make sure the best possible product is delivered to users, ESA is organising an international workshop from 21 – 23 February 2017 to evaluate options for future European satellite OCR vicarious adjustment infrastructure for Sentinel-3 OLCI and Sentinel-2 MSI series.