More than 200 world experts will meet at the sixth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing (Raqrs) from 19 to 23 September at Torrent to share the latest advances in remote sensing, current future satellite observation missions and Assess the state of the planet Earth.
The symposium, to be held in the Torrent Auditorium, is hosted by the Global Change Unit (UCG) of the University of Valencia to discuss deforestation, heat islands in cities, soil erosion, crop tracking, water consumption, fires, vegetation change, temperature analysis or sea level rise. of a planet affected by climate change.
The meeting seeks to increase understanding of phenomena that occur on the earth’s surface, in the atmosphere and in the oceans, with the aim of developing possible solutions for the future. To do this, more than 180 works from China, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK, Poland, Morocco, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Denmark, Israel, Brazil, Portugal and Spain.
Among the experts are institutional representatives and representatives from the world’s most important scientific and space agencies, such as NASA or the European Space Agency (ESA), such as the head of terrestrial space missions, Mark Drinkwater, who will speak about ESA’s future projects at this field, as well as the importance of having appropriate environmental information that contributes to an understanding of climate change on the planet.
On behalf of NASA, Robert O. Green will present his EMIT spectrometer, which was launched last July and installed on the International Space Station to investigate the impact of mineral dust particles on Earth’s temperature.
European Commission representative Martin Claverie will talk about satellite plant monitoringThe Global Change Unit of the University of Valencia will present its new methodology for assessing the severity of forest fires with data from sentinel-2, and the Institute of Aerospace Technology will demonstrate the results of the exploitation of the PAZ mission, a Spanish-resolution radar launched into space in 2018.
The congress was supported by ESA, NASA, France’s CNES, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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