Dec 5: Weekly Round-Up of Training & Other Resources
📣 Squeeze in a few more EO-related activities before 2026 ends!
Here’s info on training, abstract deadlines and other resources.
📅 Deadlines
10 December. Flash talk abstract deadline. AfriGEO/GEO Health Community of Practice https://www.geohealthcop.org/workshops/2026/1/20/telecon-afrigeo
15 December. Abstract submission deadline. All India Technical Conference 2026. https://www.ursc.gov.in/AITC2025
19 December. Deadline for story submission. ESA GDA Impact Stories from Space Challenge. https://gda.esa.int/2025/10/show-how-eo-data-makes-a-difference/
10 January 2026. Abstract submission deadline. IGARSS 2026. https://2026.ieeeigarss.org
30 January. Application deadline. IAF Emerging Space Leaders Grant Programme. https://www.iafastro.org/activities/next-generation/emerging-space-leaders-grant-programme/
13 February. Abstract submission deadline. COSPAR 2026. https://cospar2026.org/
🧠 Training/webinars
8 December. Webinar. UNOOSA. Lessons Learned on CubeSats https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/access2space4all/KiboCUBE_Academy_Webinars.html
9 December. Webinar. WMO. Crowdsourcing for Flood Risk Management https://wmo.int/events/workshop/crowdsourcing-flood-risk-management-harnessing-community-data-and-local-knowledge
10 December. Webinar. Space4Water. Intensification and Expansion of Agriculture in Indus Plain: Implications for Water and Food Security https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b69f2a4d-3aed-4705-bca2-8dc9a963f50c@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc-5ea416e6dc70
11 December. Webinar. GEO AquaWatch. Interactive Earth Observation Workflows with xcube
https://www.geoaquawatch.org/future-geo-aquawatch-webinars/
11 December. Webinar. ITU. Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/2025/1211/Pages/default.aspx
15 December. Webinar. Eurisy. Space Solutions for Society Series: Disaster Risk Management https://streamyard.com/watch/mrfXwN5TSqzW
Online course, self-paced. IDMP. Drought Risk and Impact Assessment https://www.droughtmanagement.info/news/just-launched-online-course-drought-risk-and-impact-assessment/
Online course, self-paced. Understanding climate data https://climate.copernicus.eu/online-course-understanding-climate-data
🔗 Resources
Tool. Global Drought Monitoring https://terradrought.unl.edu
Publication. Improving Flood Detection with Polarimetric SAR https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11224508
Publication. How EO and AI are Transforming Climate and Biodiversity Action https://sdg-action.org/intelligence-from-above-how-earth-observation-and-ai-are-transforming-climate-and-biodiversity-action/
Training & User Guides. Copernicus Climate Data Store https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/training?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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See you next Friday with more ways to learn, connect and collaborate!
