Theia Bulletin

Contributing to the development of our partners in the South in the fields of applicative Earth Observation, based on the resources offered by Theia

Meet with Jean-François Faure, one of Theia’s founding fathers and active facilitator of Theia activities in the global South as well as the national secretary of the DINAMIS mechanism.

PhD & PostDoc

[PhD grant] From Landscape detection to population dynamics

CNES is offering a PhD grant for a project aiming to improve knowledge of human population dynamics in rural areas through the recognition of landscape indicators derived from high-resolution image processing.

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Do you know the SCO?

The SCO facilitators discuss the Space Climate Observatory project, through which several THEIA SECs and RANs projects have been labelled.

Agenda

5th Sentinel-2 Validation Team Meeting : Call for submission

Submit your proposal to ESA 5th Sentinel-2 Validation Team Meeting before February 18.

Publications

VHSR Soil Moisture: All Series are up to date (or almost)

Thanks to the optimisation of the production by the SEC team, all (or almost all) series documenting soil moisture at the plot level are available at least until August 2021.

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France Land Cover Map 2020 Focuses on Natural Classes

The 2020 edition, which was slightly later than the previous ones, is now available with its 23 land cover classes for Metropolitan France and “refined” natural classes.

Theia Forest and Water Quality Workshops

Theia organized two thematic workshops in October, focusing on applied products for the monitoring of Forests and Water Quality.

Publications

BIOMASS CARBON MONITOR, A SITE TO TRACK CARBON SINKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE

Discover the Biomass Carbon Monitor. Based on SMOS data, it provides a comparison tool for forest cover and carbon sequestration trends at global scale.

Portail des eaux du Tchad

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World Water Quality: a portal developed for UNESCO, based on a demonstrator on Lake Chad

Theia Colours of the Continental Waters SEC has produced with Magellium a demonstrator based on data from the Lake Chad portal on the quality of continental waters.

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GEOV2-AVHRR: 2020 data now available

The GEOV2-AVHRR product has been updated for the year 2020. There are now 39 years of global vegetation change data available. 

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Monitoring of Land Soil Sealing by Remote-Sensing

Discover the work on soil sealing carried out by the TETIS team within Theia Urban SEC. And in particular the new product broadcast on Theia: “Buildings footprint”.

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Providing key information for environmental studies to document changes and trends

Meet with Silvia Valero, the new facilitator for Theia Land Cover SEC. She shares here her ambitions and expectations.