Applications deadline for research vacancies 2022
2022-11-01 18:00 UTC
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/
