Scientists will assess the health of the earth

More than 200 global experts will gather At the 6th International Symposium on Recent Developments in Quantum Remote Sensing (QRS) from September 19-23 in BitTorrent to share recent developments in remote sensing, current satellite observation missions and Evaluate the state of the planet Earth.

The symposium, to be held at the Torrent Auditorium, is organized by the Global Change Unit (UCG) of the University of Valencia to discuss deforestation, urban heat islands, soil erosion, crop tracking, water consumption, fires, changes in vegetation or analysis of temperatures or sea level rise. for a planet affected by climate change.

The meeting seeks to improve understanding of the phenomena that occur on the Earth’s surfacein the atmosphere and in the oceans with the aim of developing possible solutions for the future. To do this, there are more than 180 works from China, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, Morocco, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Denmark, Israel, Brazil, Portugal and Spain.

Among the experts are institutional representatives and representatives of the most important scientific and space agencies in the world, such as NASA or the European Space Agency (ESA), such as the Head of the Terrestrial Space Missions Division, Mark Drinkwater, who will talk about the future projects of the European Space Agency in this field, as well as the importance of having Accurate environmental information that contributes to understanding climate changes on the planet.

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Martin Claverie, European Commission representative, will speak about crop monitoring from satellitethe University of Valencia’s Global Change Unit will present its new methodology for assessing the intensity of forest fires with data from sentinel-2, and the Institute of Space Technology will present the results of exploiting the PAZ mission, a Spanish radar that launched a high-resolution image into space in 2018.

The conference is supported by the European Space Agency, NASA, the French National Center for Space Studies, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

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