Deadline soon! Register now for the 9th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing: Agriculture until 30 June 2019

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Agriculture. This course is dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts from agriculture and food security related agencies to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) for science and applications development in the domain of agriculture.

The course is part of ESA’s EO Science for Society – Scientific Exploitation element of EOEP-5 (the fifth cycle of ESA’s Earth Observation Envelope Programme).

The @FoodSecurityTEP will undergo a scheduled maintenance today (02/05/2019) from 11:00 to 18:00 CEST. This is necessary to update a number of #backend features. Running #services will be restarted automatically after the maintenance period. Please excuse the inconvenience!

Due to an update of the CREODIAS Sentinel catalogue, users may experience delays or unsuccessful processing jobs. Temporary outages may occur unitl 24/04/2019 14:00 CEST. Upgrade of the Sentinel catalogue will be going on until 25/04/2019. After that, the satellite data catalogue shall be complete again and updated to contain all data sets provided by Copernicus.

 

FS-TEP team collaborated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to publish a spatial technologies guide that provides concepts and technical information on relevant technologies available to decision-makers, managers and technical personnel involved in disaster risk management (DRM) for aquaculture. 

The Guide addresses the use of spatial technologies that support those working to reduce disaster risks and respond to emergencies in the aquaculture sector. It describes the principles for using spatial technologies in DRM and will therefore remain relevant, even in the context of rapid technological innovation and the advancement of these technologies.

Dear users, the platform maintenance has finished and the platform is available again since 14:00 CET. Many thanks for patience! ------- Dear Food Security TEP user, due to an unexpected maintenance issue on the platform, the platform itself will be unavailable today until 17:00 CET. Yet, our website will remain unaffected. Please excuse the inconvenience!

Just before the ESA PhiWeek 2018 in ESRIN, the Food Security TEP has been assigned a new domain: https://foodsecurity-tep.net

Thus if you want to contact us, please write an email to info@foodsecurity-tep.net from now on.

But please don't worry, the old addresses will be valid for some more months!

Farming shapes our landscapes and brings food to our tables. Global population is rising, but natural resources are limited. Hence, farming needs to stay within sustainable boundaries, so that there is no negative effect on the environment, that would ultimately decrease the resources available to us. So finding this balance – intensification of agriculture to achieve food security for the global population while at the same time staying sustainable, is the main challenge agriculture faces in this century. Read more on an example of how EO can help sustainable intensification here.

On 5th and 6th of March 2018, the Food Security platform team organized a workshop at the ESRIN facilities of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati, Italy bringing together its diverse agricultural user community. The workshop, titled “EO for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture”, brought together stakeholders from the public sector including science and education, from the farming and insurance industry as well as from organizations providing EO services. More details can be found here.

On March 8, 2018 Hatfield Consultants led a user workshop titled “Supporting Sustainable Aquaculture Production from Space” at FAO in Rome, Italy. It brought together various stakeholders to discuss the use of high-performance cloud-computing systems that use satellite Earth Observation (EO) datasets to support sustainable aquaculture development. A short summary as well as the presentations can be found here.

Participants of the User Workshops in Rome and Munich had the chance to give feedback and opinions, both via the discussion as well as via a questionnaire. If you are interested in taking part in the survey or the workshop outcomes than see our newest achievement topic.