EGU General Assembly 2009 GIFT Workshop

The importance of observations of the Earth from space is increasing every day. We are all more or less familiar with meteorological and communication satellites. We are maybe less familiar with other application of Earth observation from space. Satellites provide a huge variety of global, repetitive and homogeneous observations that increase our knowledge of the solid Earth and its fluid envelopes. Moreover the near-real-time data delivery, of the order of a few hours, makes it possible to use them for natural resources management, environmental monitoring and disaster management…. In this GIFT-2009 workshop, we try to give you a general overview of all these different aspects of space observation of our planet.

List of Solicited Speakers

Francesco Sarti (italy), Jérôme Benveniste (Italy), Hartmut Grassl (Germany), Anny Cazenave (France), Andreas Kääb (Norway), Manuela Hirschmugl, (Austria), Laure Resplandy (France), Laurence Durand (France), Christina Klose (Germany)

Co-Sponsorship

• European Space Agency (ESA)
• Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
• Direction des Sciences de la Matière of the “Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique”
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Associazione per la Geofisica « Licio Cernobori » in Trieste, Italy
• The Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Generalitat de Catalunya

Please see the full brochure (PDF document, 3.1 MB) for more details.

Sunday, 19 April 2009

• Guided tour of the vienna museum of natural history
  

  Herbert Summesberger
  Vienna Museum of Natural History

Monday, 20 April 2009

• Opening of the workshop
  

  Tujia Pulkkinen
  Vice-President EGU
  Carlo Laj
  Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette, France
• The Earth observation programme of ESA
  

  Francesco Sarti
  Scientific Coordinator of the Education and Training Activities
  Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes
  ESA/ESRIN Frascati (Italy)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 5.3 MB)
• Current and future satellite radar altimetry missions for hydrology and the river & lake project
  

  Jérôme Benveniste
  ESA/ESRIN Frascati (Italy)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 8.8 MB)
• Observation of the changing Earth from space
  

  Hartmut Grassl
  Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,
  Hamburg, Germany

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 858.5 KB)
• Observing the solid Earth, oceans and land waters from space
  

  Anny Cazenave
  Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS)
  Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Toulouse – France

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.9 MB)

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

• The view from afar: space observation of glaciers and related hazards
  

  Andreas Kääb
  Department of Geosciences
  University of Oslo, Norway

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 8.9 MB)
• Volcano monitoring from space
  

  Pierre Briole
  Department of Geology
  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 5.3 MB)
• Report on the AGU GIFT workshop in San Francisco
  

  Friedrich Barnikel (Germany, Heldér Pereira (Portugal)
  Petr Pudivitr (Czech Republic)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 1018.1 KB)
• Visit to the united nation office for outer space affairs (unoosa)
  

  Werner Balogh
• Redd pilot project in cameroon: method development and first results
  

  Manuela Hirschmugl,
  JOANNEUM RESEARCH
  Institute of Digital Image Processing
  Graz, Austria

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.3 MB)
• Learning from satellite ocean color: bio-physical interactions at small-scale
  

  Laure Resplandy
  Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentation et
  Approche Numérique (LOCEAN), Paris, France

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.7 MB)
• Satellites in the classroom!
  

  Mehdi Rajade
  Collège André Lahaye
  Andernos-les-bains, France
• A web site for teaching purposes
  

  Laurence Durand
  Lycée Camille Saint Saens
  Rouen, France

  • Presentation (PDF document, 519.0 KB)
• Bringing science to life for students, teachers and the community
  

  Kimberly Pratt, Alisha Valine, Keith Guernsey
  Alvarado Elementary School, Union City, CA USA

  • Presentation (PDF document, 267.9 KB)
• Satellite images for science education in high schools
  

  Christina Klose
  University of Oldenburg
  Oldenburg, Germany

  • Presentation (PDF document, 599.6 KB)
• ESA school atlas. the new way of teaching geography
  

  Lothar Beckel
  GEOSPACE International, Salzburg, Austria

  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.5 MB)

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