MAIX with NASA!

Through the involvement of the Foundation in the proposed network to monitor land changes

NASA plans to expand the monitoring networks of land use changes, forests and the environment by creating a network of scientific cooperation (1961), in which will participate the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAIC).

In the MAIX premises, the 38th Annual Symposium of the European Association of Telepresence Laboratories TROU (EARSeL) and also, in collaboration with NASA and National Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and co -organized MAICh starts tomorrow Wednesday 3 Conference Special Interest Group Use Cover / Earth (11-12 July). The Symposium is also supported by the European Space Agency (ESA)

Symposium topics are related to remote sensing data applications in agriculture, environment and forests and their use in the study of the urban, marine and coastal environment, climate change, natural disasters, etc. The guest speakers come from universities in Europe and the United States, as well as NASA and DLR, US and German Aeronautics.

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As Scientific Director of NASA's Coverage Program, Dr. Gary Gutman, said, the Symposium aims to cooperate with NASA. Remote sensing laboratory in Europe, in particular through the joint workshop of EARSeL and NASA special interest groups on satellite data applications and services for monitoring land use and change. and the establishment of joint working groups. to deal with common research and scientific issues. The collaboration of EARSeL and NASA is mainly carried out with the initiative and collaboration of Dr. Garik Gutman and Dr. Ioannis Manakos, Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Information Technologies and from the CERTH communication and chairman of the EARSeL special interest group for remote sensing applications in land use monitoring. The first meeting was held in Berlin in 2014, the second in Prague in 2016 and the third in Chania [19659004] Mr Gutman added that "NASA is working with the Global Network for Forest Monitoring and Forest Dynamics. coverage changes (GOFC-GOLD) and wishes to support a similar sub-network in the Eastern Mediterranean. "

Answering a question from" Haniotians "on the occasion of the development of forest maps in Greece he noted that we can help them to confirm the data we are seeing with NASA satellites. "

He noted, among other things, that in the context of the MAIX symposium" there is interaction between American and European scientists, while joint programs are being created. "With regard to the financial framework, he has explained that "American scientists who are contacted by European participants are generally funded."

In addition, the objectives of these symposia, as indicated, are the cooperation of NASA satellites.The European Space Agency in Regarding land capture and studies on the cryosphere, vegetation, forests, arid lands, energy in urban networks, change of surface water, etc.

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Yannis Manakos, badistant researcher at the National Center for Research and Technological Development, explains that "these applications are multidimensional. For example, we could see in Snow White the snow cover every year, how long it takes, how long the snow goes down and how the line where trees and plants can grow. "

In connection with the symposium, Manakus explained that" the goal is multiple. Communicate with scientists involved in remote sensing, share information about their research goals, the problems they have encountered, the solutions they have found and the next steps they will need to take. face. "

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MAIC's director, George Baourakis, told us that the goal of MAIX is to be a pillar of the South American network. is Mediterranean that NASA plans to build.

Note that the symposium participants are about 200 scientists from 26 countries, many of them European but also the United States, Canada, South Africa , South Korea, Japan and Australia
close cooperation of the European institutions has become known NASA and NASA have, in recent years, provided free availability of globally calculated satellite data for ground and ground research on design, management, forecasting and problem solving

Giannis Lyviakis-HANIOTIKA