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  • An EO4GEO workshop | October 26th 2021 at 17:00 PM CET

    Title: Earth Observation and Geographic Information: a crucial tool to monitor and tackle climate change.

    Organizers: EIT Climate-KIC and University of Patras

    Language: English

    Duration: 3 hours

    Brief description: The EO4GEO Partner EIT Climate-KIC in collaboration with EO4GEO invites you this October 26th at 17:00 CET to a Spark! Experience online workshop where you will learn more about the use and applications of satellite data in climate-change related challenges.

    Target:

    • Master and PhD European students from various backgrounds (also non-technical) 
    • Young professionals 
    • Citizens 

    Learning outcomes:

    • understand what Earth observation and geographic information is,
    • how the data is collected, transformed, and used to solve different issues,
    • which are the main stakeholders from the sector,
    • what type of information is available and how to retrieve it.

    Speakers:

    • Eduard Escalona, Market Development Innovation Officer, The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA)
    • Andreas Kazantzidis, Professor, University of Patras
    • Diego Saez-Gil, Co-founder, Pachamas