Earth Sensing Summer School 2025
Earth Sensing Summer School 2025
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Important Dates
- 1 March 2025 - Registration deadline
- 15 March 2025 - Communication of final decision of acceptance
- 30 March 2025 - Deadline for full payment for accomodation and meal fees
- Summer school! : 7-13 September 2025
Location
San Vito di Cadore - Italy - Dolomite Mountains
Lat. Long. = 46.468138, 12.207232
Registration
Intended Audience: The Earth Sensing Summer School is designed for any motivated student; priority will be given to PhD students, but also advanced graduate students, post-docs and young researchers are welcome, provided they are passionate about the topics covered.
Please REGISTER HERE.
Accommodation and meals fee *: 550 Euro
See important dates for registration and fee payment deadlines.
*Fee covers full accommodation for 7 days - 6 nights, meals and access to all training material, lecture room, sensors etc…
Upon registration, each applicant is requested to send:
a short motivation letter (max. 500 words)
a one page CV
an abstract of the participants’ current work (max. 2 pages, *.docx or *.odf).
Participants will be selected by a commission on the basis of the material provided upon registration.
Student support
Two Grants are provided for attending the summer school - fee will be completely waived for awardees.
To be eligible you …..
The awardee will have to provide a report on the summer school describing her/his experience.
Description
Natural and human driven processes have an impact on the environment. The challenge in science is to rigorously measure and analyse data that can help to understand such processes and make more informed decisions.
In this summer school you will learn to use remote and close-range sensing technology for collecting data on the field.
We propose several challenges - can we create a virtual 3d forest and can we use it to extract important forest parameters? - can we detect ground movement from remote sensing
Keynote speakers
Supervisors
Sensors
- Stonex x120go portable SLAM
- Riegl VZ400
- DJI / Livox L1
Sensors
Field work includes using sensors to collect data to be processed during the summer school.
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Local Organizing Committee
- Francesco Pirotti
- Erico Kutchartt
- Larissa Granja
- Veronica Manduca
- Stefano Grigolato
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Scientific Supervisors
- Francesco Pirotti
- Erico Kutchartt
- Stefano Grigolato
- Thomas Zieher
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Sponsors and supporters
Academia and Scientific Societies
Industry
[Contact us] to become gold/silver/bronze sponsor or support us in any way!
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Team Challenges
Each participant will select which challenge she/he prefers and be assigned to the team. We will try to assign everyone to their first choice.
Each challenge implies collecting field data with sensors and then processing it in the lab to reach the goal assigned by the supervisor.
The teams will present their results the last day before the good-bye party!
Virtual 3d Forests for Foresters Challenge
Measuring tree characteristics is crucial for planning harvesting, for forest management, for mapping fire risk, for estimating carbon removal etc… Field-work is costly and time-consuming. Geomatics and mobile sensors now provide an efficient tool to bring the forest to the office and apply recent AI-based methods to semI-automatically extract information.
Ground movement - Laser Scanners & InSAR Challenge
Analyse a nearby movement detected by Copernicus’ Earth Ground Motion Service with refined remote sensing techniques.
More Challenges!
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Contacts
Click here to send an email to the organizing committe