1. ESA EO CB activities ESA CEOS WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting Agenda Item # 18
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
ESA EO CB activities
ESA
CEOS WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting
Agenda Item # 18
Working Group on
Capacity Building & Data Democracy
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Indian Space Research Organisation
Dehradun, India
March 06th – 08th, 2019

2. Young professionals dealing with geoinformation Operational users
Who do we target
Young professionals dealing with geoinformation
Operational users
Future scientists
PhD and university students
Secondary schools
General public and decision-makers

3. ESA partners in CB, Education & Training activities – Earth Observation
In Europe
Universities and public institutes in Europe; other Space Agencies
European associations with an educational mandate like: Earsel, EGU/GIFT
In the frame of International Cooperation outside Europe
3. CEOS WGCapD, UN (UNOOSA, FAO, UNESCO..)
4. Space Agencies worldwide
5. International associations with an educational mandate (e.g. SELPER)
6. Africa, China (TIGER, DRAGON Programmes)
8. Countries in Africa and South America cooperating with ESA
9. Development Banks

4. ESA ESERO project (European Space Education Resource Offices in ESA MS) – secondary school level
Target: European students starting from an early age (primary and secondary education)
Goal: using the space context to make the teaching and learning of STEM subjects more attractive
ESERO offers an annual series of national or regional training sessions for both primary and secondary school teachers, offered in collaboration with national partners
Teachers’ workshops; classroom resources; school projects ….

5. Education in the frame of European cooperation – secondary school level
Forthcoming: joint School Lab with ESA, ASI, DLR, UK National Space Academy, INGV, Universities of Milan and Pavia (2019 Living Planet Symposium
13-17 May 2019, Milan, Italy)
Demonstrating RS to schools using instruments and demos

6. Education in the frame of European Cooperation: EGU/GIFT network (secondary school level )
8-years cooperation with EGU/GIFT (European Geosciences Union
GIFT – Geosciences Information for Teachers).
Workshops for Secondary School teachers selected worldwide.
Enlarged since 2016 to Africa and South America.
2019 edition: ‘Plate tectonics and Earth’s structure – yesterday, today, tomorrow’.

7. Advanced Training Courses in ESA MS
EO Training courses in Europe
Advanced Training Courses in ESA MS
Training in European Cooperating States

8. NASA / ESA Trans-Atlantic cooperation in EO Training (TAT courses)
EO Training courses in Europe
NASA / ESA Trans-Atlantic cooperation in EO Training (TAT courses)

9. Earth Observation Summer Schools in ESRIN
2018 Summer School ESRIN
70 early career scientists
have taken part
Usually organized every 2 years, open to students from worldwide, free tuition
Topics :
Global Observing Systems, Earth System Modelling, Data Assimilation, Global Change

10. Sentinel Training with the European Commission
Upcoming Sentinel training with R.U.S. / European Commission (Research and User Support for Sentinel Products / Service operation – with focus on “training the trainers”) - priority: Europe

11. EO Training courses worldwide

12. Africa - TIGER Capacity Building Facility: Developing African Knowledge and Scientific Capacity

13. International cooperation with China in EO Training

14. Creation of Tools for Education, Training and CB
Tools for secondary schools
Posters
Atlases
Educational SW package for Image Processing and GIS (LeoWorks)
Tools for general outreach
i-books
Apps for Tablets
Tools for University level
MOOCs
SAR videos
SNAP Tutorials

15. EO MOOCs ESA MOOCs (since 2015) : Climate from Space
Optical Remote Sensing
Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet from Space
SAR MOOC “Echoes in Space” (6800 registrations)
IN PREPARATION:
1) SAR MOOC “Echoes in Space” Rerun in
preparation with Uni Jena and CSA
2) MOOC on Land Use and Land Cover Change
(5 runs), Oriented to thematic application (not sensor -oriented), Foster use of all possible EO data (focus on Sentinels), in support of a variety of scientific, operati onal and societal Land Applications and services.

16. SNAP tutorials and forum
Set of tutorials for SNAP
( Sentinel toolboxes)
User forum dedicated to
Sentinel toolboxes (SNAP)

17. LEOWorks 4.x
Image Processing Software
NEW release

18. CCI App & visualisation tool
Climate from Space, ESA's iPad App for visualization of climate data being produced through the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI)
Allows to visualize temporal changes of:
sea surface temperature,
the ice sheets,
sea level,
sea ice,
carbon dioxide,
soil moisture and many more.

19. USEFUL ADDRESSES
ESA education portal:
ESA EO Education & Training web pages:

20. Thank you! WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting
IIRS, Dehradun, India March 06th – 08th, 2019
Thank you!