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Introductory Webinar: Applications of Remote Sensing-Based Evapotranspiration Data Products for Agricultural and Water Resource Management

June 1, 8 & 15, 2022 11:00 – 12:30 EDT (UTC-4) or 16:00 – 17:30 EDT (UTC-4)Evapotranspiration (ET) is the process by which the land surface returns water to the atmosphere in the form of moisture. ET is a very important part of the water cycle in the Earth system. It is the sum of evaporation from bare soil and transpiration from vegetation. For a given watershed, the supply of water from precipitation, surface and groundwater can be depleted via ET. Therefore, estimating the amount of ET is crucial for calculating the overall water budget and for effective water management. Since ET indicates loss of moisture from the soil and vegetation, monitoring ET on agricultural fields helps with crop irrigation activities and water conservation. Because ET depends on land surface characteristics such as type of vegetation and soil moisture, available heat energy from sunlight, and atmospheric weather conditions; it is not possible to measure ET directly. Remote sensing observations provide several of the land and atmospheric parameters useful for estimating ET. Several methodologies have been developed using various satellite observations to estimate ET over the past two decades. These ET products are used for a variety of applications from the farm scale to the watershed scale. This 3-part webinar series focuses on introducing newly available ET products derived from remote sensing observations. It will specifically cover a web portal called OpenET (https://openetdata.org/), which includes ET products estimated by using six models as well as Landsat satellite observations. These ET products cover the western United States. In addition, information about global ET products derived from ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on the Space Station (ECOSTRESS) will also be covered. The webinar series will provide details about OpenET and ECOSTRESS ET products, demonstrations and hands-on exercises for data access and analysis, and examples of applications of the data. Register

The open access journal Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292, IF 4.848) is pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “Remote Sensing Observation on Coastal Change”. Dr. Manon Besset and Dr. Halina Kaczmarek are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. The submission deadline is 31 October 2022 and papers may be submitted immediately or at any point until 31 October 2022, as papers will be published on an ongoing basis. For more information on this Special Issue and submission guidelines, please visit the following page: https://www.mdpi.com/si/remotesensing/rs_on_coastalchange.

We also invite you to post an early version of your paper on our free preprint platform, Preprints, allowing you to receive feedback from your peers and make your early results citable. For more information or to submit your preprint, visit https://www.preprints.org/how_it_works.

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is an internationally networked aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). Eawag conducts research, education and expert consulting to achieve the dual goals of meeting direct human needs for water and maintaining the function and integrity of aquatic ecosystems. The Department Surface Waters Research and Management (SURF) has an open position for a PhD student in Remote Sensing of Aquatic Primary Production.  The position will use automated in situ measurements from research platforms in Lake Geneva
(Switzerland/France) and Greifensee (Switzerland), hyperspectral airborne and satellite data to develop new techniques for the estimation of primary production in lakes.

Apply by April 20, 2022.  Find out more here

Workshop on the Validation of Satellite-derived Optical and Water Quality Parameters for Coastal and Inland Waters

Co-sponsored by GEO AquaWatch and NASA

June 7-9^th, 2022 Madison, Wisconsin

See Water Quality Validation (wisc.edu) for details and expression of interest form (March 31^st deadline).

University of Stirling have an exciting new Post Doc position available to help develop the Roadmap for the next Copernicus services for inland waters and support our research programme on the Black Sea.   The Hiring Manager is Evangelos Spyrakos.  You can find out more and apply here: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?jobId=2721&jobTitle=Research%20Fellow%20Earth%20Observation