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University of Twente collaborates on new Erasmus+ funded Masters programme The University of Twente is the coordinator of a new joint Masters degree, supported with a three million Euro grant from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme. The prestigious and international study programme, called GEM, is a Master of Science programme in Geo-information Science and Earth Ob...

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Assessing UN indicators of land degradation neutrality and proportion of degraded land for Botswana using remote sensing based national level metrics Achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) has been proposed as a way to stem the loss of land resources globally. To date, LDN operationalization at the country level has remained a challenge both ...

Check how -2 can detect invasive species

Javier Muro on Twitter “ can map invasive species. Here, Azolla filiculoides in Tajo River, Spain. https://t.co/9KU2121KiY”

Quarantine can't stop us. We end the month with two new publications. Analyzing land cover changes in Tanzanian wetlands 🌾: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/7/1057
and retrieving the Land Surface Temperature of croplands with UAVs 🚁: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/7/1075/htm

Long-Term Land Use/Land Cover Change Assessment of the Kilombero Catchment in Tanzania Using Random Forest Classification and Robust Change Vector Analysis Information about land use/land cover (LULC) and their changes is useful for different stakeholders to assess future pathways of sustainable land use for food production as well as for nature conservation. In this study, we assess LULC changes in the Kilombero catchment in Tanzania, an important are...

Last month, under the project SE4Amazonian, we conducted a mapping training with indigenous communities in Ecuador to support the provision of renewable energy sources

Pollution levels around us

Pinpointing Emission Sources from Space - Eos Satellite data combined with wind models bring scientists one step closer to being able to monitor air pollution from space.

Pretty cool animations of glaciers Dynamics

Satellites Show Glaciers Rapidly Shrinking from Climate Change Five decades of satellite imagery are helping scientists track how glaciers are changing with the climate.

Join an interesting webinar: Detecting Drought and Vegetation Health with Remote Sensing!
https://grow-globedrought.net/2019/01/16/detecting-drought-and-vegetation-health-with-remote-sensing/

Detecting Drought and Vegetation Health with Remote Sensing | GRoW – GlobeDrought

The project SE4Amazonian of ZFL which aims to support clean energy provision for indigenous communities in the Amazon is presenting its innovative learning approach at the UNESCO-UNEVOC Global Forum 2019. The Marketplace session will start at 10:30. If you are around pass by.

More Info on the project can be found on our website: www.zfl.uni-bonn.de/research/projects/se4amazonian

Valerie Graw on Twitter “Join us at the Marketplace at the ”

The UN-SPIDER Bonn office is searching for new interns again. Just have a look at the post below.

Job Postings at UN-SPIDER

One of the figure of our paper made it to last month IEEE grsl cover
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8675757