From early 2000 onwards, the availability of high-quality Hyper-Temporal (HT) EO, has created an enormous number of additional possibilities to map and detect changes as required to monitor impacts (successes or failures). 

Use of the dimensions "space & time" now lets us study and work on issues that earlier remained "out-of-reach" and remained "unanswered", like: 

  • creating benchmark maps that clearly include important temporal characteristics. 

  • exploring the potential of the temporal dimension of satellite EO data for monitoring vegetation dynamics and land cover/land use changes over longer periods of time.  

  • Optional: Webinar on "HT-Mapping of Ecological Systems" 

  • Optional: MOOC on " Monitoring Vegetation Dynamics from Space"  

In addition, skills to link agro-ecological conditions to crop requirements will be practiced using tools like GAEZ, EcoCrop and CropBase. 

The participants will further practice knowledge gained using Hyper-Temporal imagery to map and to monitor agro-ecosystems (2 days each!).