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BIOSCOPE investigates the technical and economical viability of a vegetation monitoring system based on the integrated use of satellites and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). BIOSCOPE uses satellite navigation for precise and crucial positioning, while using UASs to solve satellites' cloud cover problems. This will be achieved by flying at different days and times, or if needed even underneath the clouds, and by flying on-demand at targeted fields to get the right image, serving a growing group of nature park managers, farmers and their service providers, that have a key interest in the ability to receive on-demand imagery. BIOSCOPE is a project from TerraSphere, Aurea Imaging, AeroVision and CRP-Gabriel Lippmann that is funded by ESA.
The terms Unmanned Aircraft (UA) or Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) are used to describe the aircraft itself, whereas the term Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is generally used to describe the entire operating equipment including the aircraft, the control station from where the aircraft is operated and the wireless data link. The term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is still referred to in some areas, but this is progressively being phased out so that the 'aircraft' classification is given a clearer emphasis.
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Vegetation Monitoring Workshop
On April 2nd, 2012, BIOSCOPE organised a stakeholder/user workshop addressing nature. It was organised in Belgium at Grenspark de Zoom Kalmthoutse Heide, located on both Dutch and Belgian territory. Invited participants for this workshop were nature managers, water managers, rangers, researchers and people from governmental nature departments and advisory companies actively involved in nature management. Also, the space sector was represented by NSO. The participants that registered made a very diverse group. The objective of the workshop was first to investigate the project's proof of concept and secondly to gather input for the nature case.
Postdoc Hyperspectral Datasets UAP
The Dutch Wageningen University is looking for a post-doc holding a PhD degree in science or engineering to work on the project ‘Smart Aerial Rest Rigs with Infrared Spectrometers and Radar' (SMART INSPECTORS), funded by the INTERREG IVA program Deutschland-Nederland. The project is aiming at the development of a remote sensing infrastructure using state-of-the-art sensors on Unmanned Aerial Platforms (UAP) for environmental applications (e.g., precision agriculture, habitat monitoring, erosion control). Within the project, research organisations and companies are cooperating to bring fundamental research to operational applications.
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Smart AgriMatics 2012 13-14 June 2012
Smart AgriMatics is a joint conference of three projects funded by the European Commission, under the 7th Framework Programme. The three projects who organise the conference are agriXchange, ICT-AGRI ERA-NET and SmartAgriFood. The commonality between these projects is that from different perspectives they all deal with the future use of ICT and robotics in the agri-food sector, which will be the focus.
Valuing and managing biodiversity 18 October 2012
how satellite applications can help
The Eurisy event is an opportunity to meet, network, share experience and promote the understanding of how regional authorities can make the most of satellite applications, including those resulting from Europe's investments in GMES. The conference aims to offer a platform to: present practical implementation examples of satellite applications used by regional authorities to manage biodiversity, discuss the suitability of existing satellite applications to meet needs on a regional level and to debate the efficiency of current financing and policy support for regions wishing to take up innovative satellite applications for biodiversity.
Latest News
- 09 May 2012 Vegetation Monitoring Workshop
- 03 May 2012 Postdoc Hyperspectral Datasets UAP
- 19 April 2012 Envisat Services Interrupted
- 17 April 2012 BIOSCOPE at UAS Event
- 04 April 2012 Programme Workshop Vegetation Monitoring
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