Published on 23 January 2020
From January 25 up to February 4, China celebrates its Spring Festival announcing the new Year of the Rat. To this occasion, our beloved PROBA-V satellite takes a peek at the capital of the People’s Republic, Beijing, one of the most populous cities in the world.
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With each new year, many resolve to get their body into shape. The same can be said for EuroGEO, Europe’s contribution to the inter-governmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and its global system of systems (GEOSS).
Research projects like e-Shape work on the technologies to access and exploit EO data, including PROBA-V observations, to help define the suite of Essential Agriculture Variables (EAVs) for monitoring agricultural systems globally, in the context of GEO’s GEOGLAM initiative. The team behind PROBA-V present this important work at the upcoming GEO Data and Knowledge Week in February, taking place in… Beijing.