Weekly Round-up: March 13

🌍 Check out the incredible variety of Earth observation training, events and other resources in this week’s round-up.

New items have a ⭐! 

📅 Deadlines

15 March. Application deadlines for course at Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia Pacific (CSSTEAP): 30th post-graduate course in remote sensing and GIS, July 2026-March 2027. Info: www.cssteapun.org

15 March. Registration and Abstracts. Conference participation, Leveraging Space Technology for EW4All, Climate Actions and Disaster Risk Assessment, UNOOSA/SUPARCO. Limited travel support available. https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2026/un-pakistan.html

15 March. Summer School Application. Earth Observation Summer School 2026. Open GEO Hub. For OECD Official Development Assistance country citizens. https://opengeohub.org/2026/01/29/earth-observation-summer-school-2026/. 

15 March. Registration. EO Makerspace Hackathon, We Make Future
https://en.wemakefuture.it/next/events/eo-makerspace-hackathon/

17 March. Abstracts. Insight2026, European Space Agency. https://eo4society.esa.int/event/insight2026-workshop/

⭐18 March. Award nominations. EARSC 2026 Awards. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/monica-miguel-lago-4b42852a_eo-share-7436739791058001921-o8qO

20 March. Case study abstract deadline. The 2026 Earth Observation Handbook: Adaptation & Resilience, CEOS. https://eohandbook.com/2026casestudies/

22 March. Scholarship applications. Master Research Programme In Informatics For Climate Change. West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). https://wascal.org/call-for-applications-for-master-research-programme-in-informatics-for-climate-change-2022-2023-academic-session/

30 March. Early Bird Registration. IAF Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC 2026), Kigali, Rwanda. https://www.iafastro.org/events/global-series-conferences/the-iaf-global-space-conference-on-climate-change-2026/

31 March. Course application. 10-week virtual training course on data science and machine learning (ML) applications to astronomy. BRICS Astronomy. https://bricsastronomy.org/2026dat/

12 April. In-person Course Application. From Satellites to Streamflow: Modern Tools for River Monitoring.  www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses-rdf2/face-to-face-course-on-modern-tools-for-river-monitoring/

24 April. Abstracts. 3rd United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress, UN-GGIM. https://ggim.un.org/3UNWGIC/call_for_abstracts#overview

1 May. Proposals for Incubator Funding. NASA Lifelines Ready for Impact. https://nasalifelines.org/programs/ready-for-impact/

⭐29 May. Award nominations. William T. Pecora Award 2026, USGS/NASA.  https://www.usgs.gov/pecora

26 June. Abstract deadline. Machine Learning for Land and Hydrology conference. ECMWF.  https://events.ecmwf.int/event/530/

🗓️ Webinars / Training

18 March. Webinar. Sea Level Rise and Climate Change: Insights from Cci Data, ESA Earth Observation Data Users. https://www.linkedin.com/events/7435270151224156160/

19 March. Online Webinar. GEO AquaWatch Early Career Scientist Winner Water Talks. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geoaquawatch_earlycareer-globalsouth-waterquality-ugcPost-7432463983028305921-DF7b

19 March. Online Webinar in English/Spanish. Practical Training on Applications of Machine Learning (ML)/Deep Learning (DL) Numerical, Non-Image Data. Second of 3 webinars; next April 22. UN-GGIM: Americas GeoAI Community of Practice. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6920fcfb-07a6-4764-8766-dae0a3d38591@05c95b33-90ca-49d5-b644-288b930b912b

⭐Webinar. 23 March. Building Proactive Risk Management in the Northern Mediterranean. UNCCD and Global Water Partnership. https://gwpo-gwp.org/events/unccd-community-of-practice-webinar-beyond-drought-crisis-building-proactive-risk-management-in-the-northern-mediterranean/

24 March. Webinar. GEO Open House Webinar #2: DRR-Climate-Biodiversity nexus. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/E97C0nvsQx6pWglDlVEzlw#/registration

⭐Webinar. 25 March. NASA CSDA Vendor Focus: Satellogic. NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program. science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/webinar-3-25-nasa-csda-vendor-focus-satellogic/

⭐Webinar. 25 March. GEO Knowledge Hub for Youth. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/Z8V07AgfQEu_QzyGqWLH8w#/registration

⭐Webinar. 25 March. Applying Water Footprints in Practice. Global Water Partnership. https://gwpo-gwp.org/events/webinar-from-consumption-to-impact-applying-water-footprints-in-practice/

⭐Webinar. 26 March. Languages of the Sky and the First Internet of Weather. American Meteorological Society. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9-82MOJ9T8uKjMb7RrT48w#/registration

31 March. Online Short Course. ntroduction to Fire Products Part 2 – Intermediate Users. EUMETSAT. https://trainingevents.eumetsat.int/trui/events/2681

31 March. Online Webinar. Accelerating Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eLbTLQCeQT-qEp3vYczneQ#/registration 

⭐Webinar. 1 April. Remote Sensing & Photogrammetric Applications for Cultural Heritage and Environmental Monitoring. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1ea30549-aba7-4043-b5eb-816cd56baada@7ca43806-6496-4ef2-bba9-599ed8ba204b

⭐Webinar. 7 April. Career Paths at the Intersection of Engineering and Atmospheric Science. American Meteorological Society. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LgUArUT9Sw-TEwrKidtqQw#/registration

⭐Webinar in English/Spanish. 22 April. Practical Training on Applications of GeoAI to High-Resolution Optical Imagery. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ed371a3e-371c-4ddb-b612-3c276b184b76@05c95b33-90ca-49d5-b644-288b930b912b

⭐23-30 April. Online Course. Monitoring Groundwater Changes for Water Resources Management. NASA ARSET. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/monitoring-groundwater-changes-water-resources-management

⭐New Online Course. Drought Risk and Impact Assessment. Integrated Drought Management Programme. https://www.droughtmanagement.info/news/just-launched-online-course-drought-risk-and-impact-assessment/

🌐 Conferences

27-29 March, AO GEO 8th Workshop, in person and online. https://earthobservations.org/about-us/events/8th-aogeo-workshop

⭐9-10 June. 5th International Conference on Space Science and Technology. Registration Open.  https://destination-earth.eu/event/5th-destine-user-exchange/

💰Other Resources

⭐CEOS Newsletter Issue 61. Committee on Earth Observation Satellites. https://earth.jaxa.jp/ceos-newsletter/ceos-newsletter/wp-content/uploads/CEOS-Newsletter-Archive/CEOS_NL61.pdf

⭐Report. GeoAI for Humanitarian Action: How is openly accessible GeoAI being used across the lifecycle of a humanitarian crisis? NASA Lifelines. https://nasalifelines.org/lifelines-gallery/geoai-for-humanitarian-action/

⭐New Data Observatory. NASA Mission to Improve Our Understanding of the Earth System (MIO). https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/mio/

Webinar Recording. Earth Virtual Expert – EVE, ESA Φ-lab & Pi School. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nhlQWD_BGM