GEOSTAT Summer School 2018
2021-08-19 08:00 - 2021-08-25 17:00 UTC | Zámek 1, 252 43 Průhonice, Czechia, Zámek 1, 252 43 Průhonice, Czechia, Czech Republic
The IBOT, Prague 2018 Summer School (Sunday, August 19, 2018 to Saturday, August 25, 2018) is the 13th in a series of summer schools organized by R and Open Source (OS) GIS developers and enthusiasts. Summer school theme: spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis with R and OS GIS.

Summer School 2021
2021-09-01 08:00 - 2021-09-03 17:00 | Virtual
The 2021 event took place from 1st to 3rd of September virtually, with all training sessions being broadcasted live on Zoom, giving everyone the opportunity to attend and network from anywhere on the globe!
The Summer School 2021 featured:

Live presentations and demos by leading R and OSGeo developers;
2 days of training sessions and R / OSGeo tutorials;
1 day of R-Spatial workshops;
Discussion panels and break-out rooms;

Open Data Science Europe Workshop
2021-09-06 09:00 - 17:00 | Wageningen International Conference Center, Wageningen International Conference Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
The Open Data Science Europe Workshop will be held at the Wageningen International Conference Center (WICC).

Abstract submission deadline: 1st of May 2021
Registration deadline: 1st of July 2021

This event is sponsored by the OpenGeoHub foundation: no participation fees will be charged. Participants are, however, expected to finance their own travel and accommodation expenses. Majority of lectures will be broadcasted live using Zoom and Youtube channels. To submit an abstract and/or register please visit: https://opendatascience.eu

Geo-Hamonizer Christmas Party
2021-12-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
The Geo-harmonizer consortium is organizing the Geo-Harmonizer Christmas Party on Wednesday 22nd December, from 4 – 6 PM (CET) to celebrate the end of the year and the achievements of our project in 2021!

This event aims to present an overview of the project, as well as to announce important information for future appointments. But don’t worry, this is not a usual online meeting! We are inviting you to an engagement party with questionnaires (zoom poll), Xmas toast and an online game: How much do you know about the GeoHarmonizer?

Biodiversity: how big is our global biodiversity debt and what can we do about it?
2021-12-23 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
OpenGeoHub Science seminar series 2021
According to climate-expert prof. Johan Rockström, human-induced critical loss of biodiversity on land and in oceans is one of the biggest modern-time risks of leading to global ecosystem instability. Loss of biodiversity, especially in the Tropics, is one of the 9 tipping points of irreversible climate change and life quality degradation on our planet. We have only a few decades to reverse the negative trends and start valuing biodiversity realistically. i.e. using financial damages and risks also affecting the next generations. But how to measure biodiversity and what is our global biodiversity debt? How much can we learn from the further and closer past? Two biodiversity scientists from the University of Amsterdam and Leiden join us to discuss their discoveries with modelling species dynamics through time using historic data and biogeography.
Registration via Eventbrite.
Programme:
15:00–15:20: Introduction to the topic/questionnaire: “what is our (human) global biodiversity debt?”
15:20–15:50: “Biodiversity: some lessons from the last 100k years” by Dr. Kenneth Rijsdijk, Universiteit van Amsterdam

It is long known that the present-day distribution of species (biodiversity) is shaped by geological forces such as mountain formation and drifting of the continents that separated species over millions of years. Also it is well known that present day distributions of plants and animals, including us, are the effect of more recent migrations, be it active (humans) or randomly (seeds). Only recently, we discovered that sea level fluctuations forced by natural climatic change cycles acting over 100,000 yrs played a major part in the distribution of organisms across our planet. This research contributes to our understanding of how much change species naturally endured – if we know the baseline rate of natural change, we can compare it with rates of change induced by humans; and evaluate whether the present-time biota would be able to keep up.

Kenneth is assistant professor at the BIOMAC Research Group of IBED University of Amsterdam. His research is focused on the dynamics of abiotic processes that shape the earth’s surface and affect biota. He is especially interested in how environmental processes affect landscapes and ecosystems.
Recent publications:
Rijsdijk, K.F., Hengl, T., Norder, S.J., Otto, R., Emerson, B.C., Ávila, S.P., López, H., van Loon, E.E., Tjørve, E. and Fernández‐Palacios, J.M., (2014). Quantifying surface‐area changes of volcanic islands driven by Pleistocene sea‐level cycles: Biogeographical implications for the Macaronesian archipelagos. Journal of Biogeography, 41(7), pp.1242-1254.
Fernández‐Palacios, J.M., Rijsdijk, K.F., Norder, S.J., Otto, R., de Nascimento, L., Fernández‐Lugo, S., Tjørve, E. and Whittaker, R.J., (2016). Towards a glacial‐sensitive model of island biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), pp.817-830.
Rijsdijk, K.F., Buijs, S., Quartau, R., Aguilée, R., Norder, S.J., Ávila, S.P., De Medeiros, S.M.T., Nunes, J.C.C., Elias, R.B., Melo, C.S. and Stocchi, P., (2020). Recent geospatial dynamics of Terceira (Azores, Portugal) and the theoretical implications for the biogeography of active volcanic islands. Frontiers of Biogeography.

15:50–16:20: “Global hotspots of biological and cultural diversity: exploring the parallels between biogeography & geolinguistics” by Dr. Sietze Norder, Universiteit Leiden

Planet Earth houses a fascinating and abundant diversity in terms of plant- and animal species, as well as in human cultures. Surprisingly, hotspots of biological and cultural diversity are often found in similar locations. A better understanding of the environmental and societal drivers underlying these patterns is urgent because global biocultural diversity is severely threatened. Species are currently going extinct at rates which largely exceed long-term background rates. The same is true for cultures: the global variation in languages for example, one aspect of cultural diversity, is declining rapidly as well. In this talk, SIetze will discuss the spatial distribution of bio- and cultural diversity, their drivers, and how an integrated perspective could provide opportunities for their conservation.

Sietze studies how patterns of biological and cultural diversity have been shaped by interactions between climate, topography, and ecology. While he has a background in biogeography, he is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics where he applies methods and theories from biogeography to patterns of human cultural diversity and migration. He has recently published a book on island biodiversity called: “The World in Miniature” (currently only available in Dutch; an English summary is available here).
Recent publications:
Norder, S.J. (2021) De wereld in het klein: wat eilanden ons vertellen over de relatie tussen mens en natuur. https://sietzenorder.nl/en/island-book/
Norder, S.J. et al. (2021). Global change in microcosms: environmental and societal predictors of land cover change on the Atlantic Ocean Islands. Anthropocene, 30, 100242 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100242
Norder S.J. et al. (2019). Beyond the Last Glacial Maximum: island endemism is best explained by long-lasting archipelago configurations. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12835
16:20–16:30: Summary discussion and closing points
Discussion topics:

What are the state-of-the-art biodiversity indices? And which are actually used in decision making / ecosystem accounting?
What is our global biodiversity debt (since pre-industrial time)?
How much do international initiatives such as GBIF and ESA EO missions help tackle the problems of biodiversity loss?
How important is biodiversity in the time of COVID-19 pandemic (and does it have anything to do with the pandemic)?
What can we learn from the past? Which are currently the best models of biodiversity preservation / regeneration?
How will global climate change / global warming affect biodiversity and how much should we worry?

References:

Skidmore, A. K., Coops, N. C., Neinavaz, E., Ali, A., Schaepman, M. E., Paganini, M., … & Wingate, V. (2021). Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space. Nature ecology & evolution, 5(7), 896-906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01451-x
Perry P. (2019). Easter Island Shows Why Humanity Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years. BigThink.com.
Larry J. Gorenflo, et al., (2012). Co-occurrence of Linguistic and Biological Diversity in Biodiversity Hotspots and High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109, no. 21: 8032-8037. https://doi.org/10.103/pnas.1117511109
Lenton, T. M., Rockström, J., Gaffney, O., Rahmstorf, S., Richardson, K., Steffen, W., & Schellnhuber, H. J. (2019). Climate tipping points—too risky to bet against. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03595-0
Turner, W., Rondinini, C., Pettorelli, N., Mora, B., Leidner, A. K., Szantoi, Z., … & Koh, L. P. (2015). Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation, 182, 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.11.048

MOOD Science Webinars
2022-01-26 15:30 - 16:00 | Zoom
Every last Wednesday of the month, as part of the EU-H2020 MOOD communication and dissemination activities, OpenGeoHub hosts a series of science webinars inviting two leading experts to share their research work on disease surveillance and modelling in data science, the impact of global warming on disease outbreaks, and the building of one-health systems across Europe and the world. With the MOOD science webinars, we aim at bringing the leading scientists and professionals in the field to discuss important recent discoveries and discuss implications of their work.
We especially encourage presentations on published research work focusing on: how was the work implemented? What were the main discoveries? What did and did not work out the way you expected? and what are the implications of the main discoveries, especially in the context of the MOOD project objectives?

Join the next MOOD Science webinar!
Every last Wednesday of the month (except August and December), from 3 to 4 PM (CET). Click on the button below to join the Zoom meeting using the passcode.
Join us on Zoom
Meeting ID: 890 6145 6726
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Applications deadline for the OpenGeoHub vacancies 2022
2022-05-01
Last call to apply for the OpenGeoHub vacancies:

Post-doctoral data scientist: Geocomputation for global environmental monitoring
Research assistant / PhD candidate: Geocomputation for econometric assessment of ecosystem services
Research assistant / PhD candidate: Land Degradation & Land Potential modelling
Project manager – project coordinator assistant
Communication officer/multimedia assistant

Check out the general selection process to work at our institute!
Vacancies will close on May 1st -end of the day.

2022 Living Planet Symposium
2022-05-23 - 2022-05-27 | World Conference Center Bonn, Platz d. Vereinten Nationen 2, Bonn, 53113, Germany
The European Space Agency’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium which is held every three years, will take place on 23–27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany. The symposium is organised with the support of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
This symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions.
Visit the official website.

Global Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring: Main Products and Major Perspectives
2022-06-03 14:30 - 16:30 | Wageningen University Campus, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, Netherlands
About:

As the global population grows, humankind continues to modify the land use and land cover (LULC) of the planet mainly motivated by the increasing demand for food and commodities production.
In the last 50 years, about 17% of land use on the Earth’s surface has changed, an unprecedented conversion of natural landscapes modifying climate regimes, reducing biodiversity and contributing to the overall global warming. This process has been under close monitoring for many decades through satellites orbiting the Earth (e.g. Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, PROBA-V), responsible for frequently delivering updated image data on a global scale. Thanks to the recent advances in Machine Learning, high processing/cloud computing and remote sensing have allowed multiple research institutes to transform this large imagery archive into LULC mapping products, contributing to a better understanding of the drivers behind land conversion and their impacts on the global environment.
In this discussion panel, you will learn more about the main LULC products produced by the World Resource Institute, the University of Maryland and Wageningen University, including their methodology, characteristics, applicability, limitations as well future perspectives. During the discussion, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and make comments on specific topics.
Follow the live stream with:

Monitoring the pulse of the planet’s land and its nature-based carbon – Fred Stolle (World Resources Institute)
Global land cover change and human impact on natural land – Matthew Hansen (University of Maryland)
Advancements in European efforts in global land cover mapping and map updating – Dainius Masiliunas and Nandika Tsenbazar (Wageningen University and Research)

General information:

This discussion forum is free-of-costs and can be followed in person or via Teams’ streaming service;
To follow the live stream, register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-land-use-and-land-cover-monitoring-main-productsmajor-perspectives-tickets-344785862797
The event is organized by the OpenGeoHub foundation in collaboration with Wageningen University;
After the discussion panel, we invite the participants to join the Happy Hour at the Spot bar (Orion building, ground floor).

OpenDataScience Europe Workshop 2022
2022-06-13 08:00 - 2022-06-16 17:00 | Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University, Thákurova 7, Praha 6,, Prague, Czech Republic
The workshop is part of the activities within the framework of Geo-harmonizer: EU-wide automated mapping system for harmonization of Open Data based on FOSS4G and Machine Learning. Geo-harmonizer is an European project, financed by the European Commission through the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA).
Connecting Europe through Earth Observation and Open Data Missions
The workshop 2022 follows the main topics of the project:
1. Dynamic mapping of land cover, vegetation, climate, and environmental quality indices,
2. Spatiotemporal Machine Learning using Ensemble techniques,
3. Earth Data Cubes: spatiotemporal overlay, modeling, and visualization,
4. Geocomputing and geo-harmonization using Python, R, and Open Source GIS GDAL, GRASS GIS, QGIS
5. Processing large raster datasets using High Performance and Distributed Computing,
6. Using geospatial harmonized European map products.
7. Using AR/VR for geospatial data visualization

Info, registrations and abstract sumbission here.

MOOD Summer School 2022
2022-06-20 08:00 - 2022-06-22 19:00 | Agropolis Building, 1000 Av. Agropolis, Montpellier, 34000, France
To support the uptake of the Horizon-2020 MOOD project’s innovations, WP6 led by OpenGeoHub will implement a dynamic knowledge transfer and capacity building addressing young researchers (Ph.D. candidates), professionals, and technical staff through an exciting summer school on June 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 2022 in Montpellier (France). Throughout a three-day full-immersion training, expert lecturers will promote developed software and computing techniques, tools, and datasets.
More info & registrations here.
Type: hybrid

Open-Earth-Monitor Project Launch
2022-07-17 - 2022-07-20 | Wageningen University Campus, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, Netherlands
A cyberinfrastructure to accelerate the uptake of environmental information and help build user communities at European and global levels

Horizon Europe > CL6-2021 > GOVERNANCE-01-16
Date: July 17–20, 2022
Location: Wageningen University Campus, Forum Building, room C222, Droevendaalsesteeg 2 Wageningen
Official website: https://earthmonitor.org/
Internal (for partners only)

Objectives:

Prepare and launch basic infrastructure for the project management including: project website, initial communication and dissemination plan, a working project management system, common and public calendars (to add events, deadlines etc);
Start doing the production work on first deliverables including: D1.1 Project governance guidelines, D1.2 Implementation plan 2022-2026 1st version, D1.3 Data Management Plan (DMP) 1st version;
Announce the project publicly, collect initial feedback and start networking with potential partner projects and organizations;
Announce the job openings and important project events in year 2022 and 2023;
Initiate a newsletter (public + internal) and a Medium channel where all important blog posts will be published;

About Open-Earth-Monitor project
Open-Earth-Monitor is a Horizon Europe project gathering a consortium of 23 organizations with a total budget of about 13M EUR. The overall objective of the Open-Earth-Monitor is to build a FAIR-compliant cyberinfrastructure, based on the cloud-based implementation of open source software, to serve robust and generic data science tools to a diversity of European and global programmes and actions (e.g. European Green Deal actions, Copernicus Land Monitoring Programme, Copernicus Climate Change Service, GEOSS, Destination Earth and similar) for the ultimate purpose of increasing the health and quality of life of EU citizens now and into the future. Specific project objectives include:

Produce an inventory of user needs, data and knowledge that will be used to develop a general framework for increasing uptake and accessibility/exploitability of environmental observation information.
Design, implement and release an operational solution for processing and serving EO data, environmental in-situ-data, and AI, ML and HPC models (OEMC-computing-engine).
Design, implement and release a suite of intuitive tools to enable targeted end-users to monitor the status of natural resources at European / Global scales and production of environmental B2B solutions.
Design, implement and release a comprehensive and systematic platform to enhance the FAIRness (findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) of environmental observation data.
Achieve notable and permanent improvement in access for European stakeholders to existing European and Global environmental observation data and actionable information.

Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the European Green Deal
2022-07-19 08:00 - 22:00 | Wageningen University Campus, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, Netherlands
Open-Earth-Monitor is a Horizon Europe project gathering a consortium of 23 organizations across Europe and beyond. The mission of the Open-Earth-Monitor project consortium is to significantly accelerate the uptake of environmental information to guide current and future users in research, decision-making and citizens toward the most sustainable solutions.
The consortium invites you to join the project launch in Wageningen (NL) & get to know the future activities, outputs and outstanding researchers part of the Open-Earth-Monitor project.
Registration is compulsory at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-earth-monitor-project-launch-tickets-324747728197
Deadline for registration: 1 June 2022
Programme

9:00 –10:30 | Open-Earth-Monitor 2022–2026 “Big Earth Observation Data and upcoming ESA and NASA missions” (Room C0222)
10:30 –11:00 |Coffee break
11:00 –12:30 |”From big EO data to decisions” and demo sessions (Eurodatacube, Sentinel-Hub, openEO, eumap, OpenLandMap) (Room C0222) by Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Gilberto Camara (INPE-Brazile), Alexander Jacob (EURAC), Markus Reichstein (Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry)
12:30 –13:30 | Lunch (1st-floor cafeteria)
13: 30 –15:30 |”How to produce and release FAIR environmental data? A crash course”(Room C0222) by Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub), Edzer Pebesma (ifGI, University of Muenster)
15:00 –15:30 | Coffee break
15:30 –17:00 | “Global and EU-scale environmental data infrastructures and monitoring initiatives in the context of the European Green Deal” (Room C0222)
17:00 – 17:30 | Discussion forum “How can EO and AI help deliver green new deal/ what could be the most cost-effective path — the win-win-win?” (Room C0222)
18:00-19:00 | Happy hour (Forum building)
19:30 – 22:00 | Closing dinner (TBD)

OpenGeoHub Summer School Siegburg 2022
2022-08-28 - 2022-09-03 | Friendly City Hotel Oktopus, Siegburg (Germany), Zeithstraße 110, Siegburg, Germany
Summer School 2022 / KISTE project workshop: “Open Source solutions for Earth system data (R, OSGeo, Python)”
Dates: 28 August 2022 – 03 September 2022
Location: Friendly City Hotel Oktopus, Siegburg (Germany)
OpenGeoHub Summer School is an annual event that has been running at various locations in Europe and Canada and Australia since 2010. Every year, we invite researchers and specialists who we think are especially active (and successful) in developing open source software and open data, and helping other researchers improve their analysis and modeling frameworks. The 2022 event will be held in a hybrid form with physical lectures and hackathons with the support from the KISTE project. The Summer School will include:

Live presentations and demos by leading R and OSGeo developers,
5 days of Earth System Analysis training sessions and R / OSGeo tutorials
Including 1 day of R-Spatial workshops,
Including 1 focus day “extreme events”,
Discussion panels and break-out rooms.

This Summer School is a not-for-profit event and can be followed online. Registrations are open till May 29th!
Registrations and more information at this link.

Discussion forum: Open Source software and data formats for Big EO data: how to choose between R, Python, Julia, and different data formats?
2022-08-31 17:00 - 18:00 | online
Discussion forum “Open Source software and data formats for Big EO data: how to choose between R, Python, Julia and different data formats?”
Let’s explore the challenges and opportunities of open source software for big earth observation data, together with leading experts and developers, alongside the choice of the best data formats.
Join this interactive discussion, ask us your questions and answer ours online!
This forum is part of the OpenGeoHub Summer School 2022, an annual event that has been running at various locations in Europe and Canada and Australia since 2010. Every year, we invite researchers and specialists who we think are especially active (and successful) in developing open source software and open data, and helping other researchers improve their analysis and modelling frameworks. The 2022 event will be held in a hybrid form with physical lectures and hackathons with the support of the KISTE project.
This year, we will have the pleasure to host the following speakers : Martijn Visser I Maarten Pronk I Edzer Pebesma I Martin Fleischmann I Krzystof Dyba I Ben Graeler I Markus Abel I Edzer Pebesma I Leandro Parente I Christian Autermann I Markus Konkol I Jakub Nowosad I Martin Schultz I Ribana Roscher I Patrick Schratz I Hanna Meyer I Tim Appelhans
For additional information, you can visit the summer school’s webpage, and the websites of OpenGeoHub, 52 north and the KISTE project.
This event is free of cost and no profit will be made.

Applications deadline for research vacancies 2022
2022-11-01 18:00
Last call to apply for the OpenGeoHub vacancies:

Post-doctoral data scientist: dynamic soil-landscape modeller
Post-doctoral data scientist: Global Earth Observation data sets
Data scientist: Geovisualization and dashboard building

Check out the general selection process to work at our institute!
Vacancies will close on November 1st – end of the day.

Seminar Digital Twins for Earth Sciences: How to prepare your infrastructure?
2022-11-21 10:30 - 17:30 | SURF Office, Moreelsepark 48, Utrecht, 3511 EP
Destination Earth
Destination Earth (DestinE) aims to develop – on a global scale – a highly accurate digital model of the Earth to monitor and predict the interaction between natural phenomena and human activities. DestinE will unlock the potential of digital modeling of the Earth system at a level that represents a real breakthrough in terms of accuracy, detail, access-to-information, speed and interactivity.
Through the unprecedented observation and simulation capabilities of DestinE, empowered by a new digital infrastructure (incl. EuroHPC Exascale systems) and AI capacity, we will be better prepared to respond to major natural disasters, adapt to climate change and predict the socioeconomic impact. DestinE supports the European Commission’s Green Deal action and Digital Strategy.
Challenges for researchers
The amount of data available for Earth Sciences research is ever-growing. DestinE, on the one hand, will incorporate cutting-edge models and real-time measurements but, on the other hand, also generate huge amounts of new data. How can researchers ensure that they are ready to process and analyze this data for innovative research? Which infrastructures are already available and what is lacking?
This seminar brings together interested parties to discuss these questions and build the collaborations needed to prepare the Dutch research community for DestinE.
For whom
Researchers, Program managers, IT support, Data scientists
Organization
This seminar is organized by SURF in cooperation with the Netherlands Space Office (NSO).
Program

Time
Subject

10:30 – 11:00
Walk in

11:00 – 11:10
Welcome at SURF

11:10 – 11:45
Keynote:
Wilco Hazeleger (UU)

11:45 – 12:10
Raymond Sluiter (NSO)
Destination Earth & Earth Observation Infrastructures

12:10 – 12:35
Femke Vossepoel (TUD)
Digital Twins for safe and sustainable Delta development in a changing Climate

12:35 – 13:35
Lunch

13:35 – 14:00
TBD

14:00 – 14:10
Haili Hu, Raymond Oonk (SURF)
Working together with SURF for Earth Sciences

14:10 – 15:10
Break out session / Futuring

15:10 – 15:30
Break

15:30 – 15:55
Tomislav Hengl (OpenGeoHub)
Decentralized computing infrastructures and open source cloud-solutions for Digital Earth Twin systems (or how to scale-up a proven idea within a modest computing budget)

15:55 – 16:30
Keynote:
Thomas Geenen (ECMWF)

16:30 – 17:30
Closing and drinks

Webinar: Hydrography90m, pushing the boundaries of computational hydrology
2022-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Wageningen University Campus, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, Netherlands
An open webinar on hydrology by the guest speaker Giuseppe Amatulli from Yale University.

Join this free webinar & contribute to the open-source community!

REGISTER & LIVESTREAM HERE!
Hydrography90m: pushing the boundaries of computational hydrology
Streams and rivers drive several processes in hydrology, geomorphology, geography and ecology. A global starized hydrographic network that accurately delineates streams and rivers, along with their topographic and topological properties, is needed for worldwide environmental applications. Using the MERIT Hydro Digital Elevation Model at 90m and by employing a suite of GRASS GIS hydrological modules, we calculated the range-wide upstream flow accumulation and flow direction to delineate a total of 1.6 million drainage basins and extracted globally a total of 726 million unique stream segments with their corresponding sub-catchments. Besides, we computed stream topographic variables comprising stream slope, gradient, length, and curvature attributes as well as stream topological variables to allow for network routing and various stream order classifications. The validation shows that the newly developed Hydrography90m has the highest spatial precision and contains more headwater stream channels compared to three other global hydrographic datasets.
More information at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4525-2022 & https://hydrography.org/
REGISTER & LIVESTREAM HERE!

About Giuseppe Amatulli
Dr Amatulli is a passionate forester and spatial modeller by training (M.Sc. & PhD in GeoScience and Forestry) and a computer scientist by trade. His research activity is mainly dedicated to spatial modelling, GIS and remote sensing with special emphasis on tspecies distribution model, areal distribution and potential shift under climate change conditions, wildland fire occurrence and pattern recognition, and wildfire risk assessment based on human and bio-physical parameters.
Ultimately, he is dealing with geomorphology and hydrography analysis to derive high-accuracy flow estimation. He is daily dealing with high-resolution data in the context of complex and modern modelling techniques using stand-alone implementation processes under Linux environment. He uses open-source programming language and software (GRASS, R, PYTHON, GNUPLOT, AWK, BASH, QGIS, OPENEV, CDO) to accomplish large data processing in cluster processing keeping always in mind the ecological and geophysical aspects of the research study. He supports the use of open-source for geocomputation and machine learning modelling giving dedicated courses using (and maintaining) the www.spatial-ecology.net web page.
REGISTER & LIVESTREAM HERE!

Present and Future of Data Cubes discussion forum at the EuroGEO Workshop 2022
2022-12-07 11:45 - 13:00 | online
Critical environmental information is today heavily under-used because it requires a high level of expertise and computing capacity. EO data is not yet a commodity and neither is environmental information.
How can we make monitoring systems that explain the effects of global warming on land cover changes and extreme weather (floods, droughts etc.) as simple to use and as popular as Google Maps or AccuWeather?
What have we learned so far from NASA’s MODIS, Google Earth Engine, Copernicus initiatives, and OpenEO.cloud?
In this live-streamed event organized by HorizonEurope’s Open-Earth-Monitor project and OpenGeoHub, international experts and project partners will discuss how we can make environmental data derived from Earth Observations and field monitoring more usable, accessible and relevant to decision-makers and society.
REGISTER HERE!
Starting from the discussion of existing top-level solutions for the effective use of large EO data for real-world applications, we will explore open-source solutions that can process massive volumes of EO data in a more transparent and reproducible way.
On top of public services, commercial solutions can play a massive role: we will analyze and discuss existing commercial Data Cube services covering the whole of Europe and the whole world to understand what the best way to use them is for open, European projects.
Finally, the forum will give stage also to more in-depth discussions around cloud-optimized data formats and their applicability to store and share gridded, vector and tabular data.
Speakers will be soon announced!
About the EuroGeo Workshop 2022 in Athens
This event will take place within the EuroGEO workshop 2022 ‘Towards an integrated and convergent EuroGEO’ on 7 – 9 December 2022, in Athens, Greece.
EuroGEO combines the contributions of European members of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), a partnership of more than 100 national governments, over 100 participating organisations and the European Commission. GEO envisions a future where decisions and measures for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations.
The annual workshop brings together European players interested in and actively contributing to EuroGEO.
This year, the workshop is organised by the European Commission, the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation of the Hellenic Ministry of Development and Investments, and the Greek GEO Office operating within the National Observatory of Athens.
REGISTER HERE!

MOOD Summer School 2023
2023-05-21 - 2023-05-27 | The Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences – MedILS, Šetalište Ivana Meštrovića 45, Split, 21000, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Summer School 2023 “GeoSpatial under the OneHealth Umbrella”
This summer school will be the second edition of MOOD project’s capacity building event, planned for improving knowledge on epidemic intelligence for disease surveillance, including identification of re-emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, the changing drivers fueling disease spread, and surveillance and early warning techniques in pandemic threats. During 6 days, hands-on skills improvement through the use of MOOD tools will be highlighted, as well as online materials such as data processing tutorials. You can watch the lectures of MOOD’s 2022 Summer School on the TIB Portal.
Visit the Webpage for applications and more information!

OpenGeoHub Summer School Poznan 2023
2023-08-27 - 2023-09-02 | Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan – Faculty of Geographical and Geological Science, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Poznań, 61-680, Poland
Summer School 2023: “Processing and visualizing large geospatial data using R, Python and Julia”
OpenGeoHub Summer School is an annual event that has been running at various locations in Europe, North America, and Australia since 2010, inviting researchers and specialists in developing open-source software and open data to help others improve analysis and modeling frameworks.
The 2023 event is organized in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). The Summer School will consist of live presentations and demos by leading R and OSGeo developers, workshops, discussion panels, machine learning competitions, and several social events.
This Summer School is a not-for-profit event. Visit the Webpage!
Find out more about the previous editions on the OpenGeoHub Webpage and watch the free video lectures from the 2022 edition, 2021 edition and 2020 edition on the TIB.Av Portal.

Discussion Forum
2023-08-30 17:15 - 18:45 | Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan – Faculty of Geographical and Geological Science, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Poznań, 61-680, Poland
What can R, Python, and Julia development communities do to combat the climate crisis?
Let’s explore solutions, together with leading experts in each programming language. Join this interactive discussion, ask us your questions, and answer ours online!
During this year’s discussion forum, we will have the pleasure to listen to expert presentations by

Edzer Pebesma, Director of the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster
Lorena Abad, Researcher at Z_GIS – Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg
Anita Graser, Spatial data scientist, Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna
Maarten Pronk, GeoData Scientist, Deltares

This will be followed by a live discussion between all attendees, on and off-line, using an interactive presentation with the tool Slido.
Join this interactive discussion: Click on this link!
This event is part of the 2023 OpenGeoHub Summer School.

Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023
2023-10-04 - 2023-10-06 | Eurac Research Institute fo Earth Observation, Viale Druso Drususallee, 1, Bolzano, Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, 39100, Italy
Organized by OpenGeoHub foundation in collaboration with Eurac Research, the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023 will bring together European and global actors in the field of open-source Earth Observation applications in policy, business, research and for society.
This international event will connect project partners, including data and environmental researchers, public and private sector developers, EU decision- and policymakers, representatives from global institutions, the business sector and civil society to discuss and test solutions to the greatest challenges in geospatial applications.
Through five days featuring international keynote speakers, scientific presentations, discussions, and demonstrative workshops, the participants of the OEMC Global Workshop 2023 will explore valuable opportunities and establish tangible collaborations to improve geospatial research and application products in open-source.

Register here.

For additional information about the theme, updates, focus points, objectives, call for abstracts, key dates, fees, venue, and the open-earth-monitor project, visit the official Global Workshop 2023 page.

Soil Health Now!
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-10 | Wageningen International Conference Center, Wageningen International Conference Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
A 3-day international conference with keynotes, discussion forums, oral talks, workshops and demonstrations + fieldwork: science, technology and business intelligence for measuring monitoring and increasing soil health. The maximum capacity of event is 200 participants.
Visit the website for more information: https://2025.ai4soilhealth.eu/#hero

Summer School 2025
2025-09-01 - 2025-09-06 | Wageningen International Conference Center, Wageningen International Conference Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
OpenGeoHub Summer School is an annual event that has been running at various locations in Europe, North America, and Australia since 2010, inviting researchers and specialists in developing open-source software and open data to help others improve analysis and modeling frameworks.
The 2025 event is organized in collaboration with EO Council and SURF. The Summer School will consist of live presentations and demos by leading EO modelers and OSGeo developers, workshops, discussion panels, machine learning competition, and several social events.
This Summer School is a not-for-profit event.
For more information visit the event’s webpage.

OEMC Global Workshop 2025
2025-09-17 - 2025-09-19 | Department of Geoinformatics, Belgrad University, Serbia
The Open-Earth-Monitor — Global Workshop 2025 “Open EO data and open source software as a foundation for monitoring the European Green Deal”, the 4th global workshop of the Open Earth Monitor Project, will be held in Belgrade, Serbia. This workshop is co-organized by OpenGeoHub Foundation, Belgrad University, Department of Geoinformatics and Gilab.
During these 3 days workshop, we will host technical and application topics discussion around Open EO Data.
Find out more: https://earthmonitor.org/events/global-workshop-2025/

Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2026
2026-10-07 - 2026-10-09 | Casa de Convalescència, Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171, Horta-Guinardó, Barcelona, 08041, Spain
The final Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop is taking place 7–9 October 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, and is co-organized by OpenGeoHub Foundation and CREAF. This fifth and final edition will be a key milestone for the project, showcasing the OEMC’s final tools and results, while bringing together the global Earth Observation and open-source community around the theme: Next-Generation EO & GeoAI Built on Openness and Distributed Data. This public event will focus on showcasing the project’s final tools and outputs, fostering a dialogue on next-generation Earth Observation and GeoAI solutions built on openness, distributed data, and real-world user needs across policy, science, and industry.
With an impressive lineup that includes the Director of CREAF, experts from the German Aerospace Center, the World Resources Institute (WRI), the Netherlands Space Office, Cambridge University, Eurac Research, and more, we are bringing together some of the most renowned experts in EO data to present and discuss the latest developments in the field and the outputs of OEMC after a 4-year project.
To participate in the final workshop, please submit an abstract for an oral presentation, a workshop session, or a poster session. The science committee will review all proposals, and the best-ranked proposals will then be selected to be part of the program.
Event link: https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2026/
Abstract Submission: https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2026/cfp
Open-Earth-Monitor project:https://earthmonitor.org/
