OpenGeoHub EO-council Summer School 2025

Version 0.9 July 21, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

“Introduction to NSO” (Sept. 3, 2025, 11 a.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 10 a.m.)
“Introduction to GRASS GIS as a spatial analysis engine” by Luís Moreira de Sousa (Sept. 1, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“What does high resolution mean? Space-based spectrometry for air quality & climate” by Deborah C. Stein Zweers (Sept. 2, 2025, noon → Sept. 2, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“Discussion panel: How to build an open decentralized EO fediverse?” (Sept. 4, 2025, noon → Sept. 4, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“Build Advanced EO Workflows with Custom Functions in openEO within the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem” by Pratichhya Sharma (Sept. 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“An introduction to Julia” by Maarten Pronk (Sept. 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Research speed dating” (Sept. 1, 2025, 5:30 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 4:30 p.m.)
“Automatic acquisition and processing of satellite data in R” by Krzysztof Dyba (Sept. 1, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Application Packages in the xcube ecosystem” by Pontus Lurcock (Sept. 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Spatiotemporal Machine Learning: 15 practical lessons on how to organize monitoring, modeling and updating of predictions” by Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub) (Sept. 1, 2025, noon → Sept. 1, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“High performance computing with Pyhton/RS-DAT” by Meiert Willem Grootes (Sept. 3, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Less distorted analyses of satellite imagery using Discrete Global Grid Systems in Julia” by Daniel Loos, Luís Moreira de Sousa (Sept. 4, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“AutoML: Automating machine learning applied to areal regression modeling” by Leandro Parente (Sept. 4, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Overview of passive optical instruments for earth observation” by Ralf Kohlhaas (Sept. 2, 2025, noon → Sept. 2, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases and the Determination of Their Concentrations Through Satellite Observations” by Jochen Landgraf (Sept. 5, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Discrete Global Grid Systems - Awareness raising about the future of GIS” by Davide Consoli, Luís Moreira de Sousa (Sept. 3, 2025, noon → Sept. 3, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“Processing PACE data with Python: get a polarized hyperspectral view of the Earth” by Jeroen Rietjens, Laura van der Schaaf (Sept. 3, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Hackathon Consultation” (Sept. 2, 2025, 6 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 5 p.m.)
“Introduction of cloud-native vector format: hands-on in Python environment” by Yu-Feng Ho (Sept. 1, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Closing and announcement of hackathon winners” by Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub) (Sept. 5, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 5, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Geomorphometry: high-performance computing using GRASS GIS, and WhitboxTools in Python” by Yu-Feng Ho, Mustafa Serkan Isik (Sept. 2, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Learning Representations: From Engineering Features to Engineering Pretext Tasks” by Nico Lang (Sept. 5, 2025, 10 a.m. → Sept. 5, 2025, 9 a.m.)
“Crash Course on Google Earth Engine API” by Mustafa Serkan Isik (Sept. 2, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Introduction to openEO within the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem” by Pratichhya Sharma (Sept. 4, 2025, 10 a.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 9 a.m.)
“Land Use and Land Cover Classification with Satellite Image Time Series in R” by Krzysztof Dyba (Sept. 2, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Space-time mapping at 30 m resolution based on Landsat ARCO data: hands-on for real case applications (python)” by Davide Consoli (Sept. 3, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Synthetic Aperture Radar: system specificaitons and performance trade offs” by Paco Lopez Dekker (Sept. 5, 2025, noon → Sept. 5, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“Introduction to SURF” by Haili Hu (Sept. 3, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 9:30 a.m.)
“Monitoring global grassland and pasture areas: An integrated approach based data-fusion and regional calibration” by Leandro Parente (Sept. 1, 2025, 12:30 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)
“Cryosphere Tutorial in Python” by Lu Zhou (Sept. 5, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Processing large grids and raster algebra using terra package (R)” by Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Alexandre Wadoux (Sept. 5, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“Monitoring EO workflows with precision for better performance and resource utilization” by Serkan Girgin (Sept. 2, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Raster and vector data cubes in R and Python” by Edzer Pebesma (Sept. 2, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
“GRASS GIS automation for Earth Observation with Python, R and Julia” by Luís Moreira de Sousa (Sept. 2, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Geomorphometry in Julia” by Maarten Pronk (Sept. 4, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Hackathon workshops” (Sept. 1, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Observing earth system dynamics on weather and climate scales” by Ad Stoffelen (Sept. 4, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 9:30 a.m.)
“The Radiative Transfer Theory” by Jochen Landgraf (Sept. 5, 2025, noon → Sept. 5, 2025, 11 a.m.)
“NSO Companies Fair + Networking borrel” (Sept. 3, 2025, 4 p.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
“Hackathon Consultation” (Sept. 4, 2025, 6 p.m. → Sept. 4, 2025, 5 p.m.)
“Field Excursion - Doorwerth castle” (Sept. 6, 2025, 9:30 a.m. → Sept. 6, 2025, 8:30 a.m.)
“Introduction to the EO Council” by Wouter van der Wal (Sept. 3, 2025, 10 a.m. → Sept. 3, 2025, 9 a.m.)
“Data use in remote sensing of the atmosphere” by Sander Houweling (Sept. 3, 2025, noon → Sept. 3, 2025, 11 a.m.)

Version 0.8 July 21, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Introduction to openEO within the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem” by Pratichhya Sharma .

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

“What does high resolution mean? Space-based spectrometry for air quality & climate” by Deborah C. Stein Zweers (Sept. 3, 2025, noon, Expert Room 2 → Sept. 2, 2025, noon, HugoTECH)
“Learning From Global Earth Observation Data” by Nico Lang (Sept. 2, 2025, 10 a.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 9 a.m.)
“Discrete Global Grid Systems - Awareness raising about the future of GIS” by Davide Consoli, Luís Moreira de Sousa (Sept. 2, 2025, noon, HugoTECH → Sept. 3, 2025, noon, Expert Room 2)
“Plenary introduction, including introduction to the hackathons” (Sept. 1, 2025, 10 a.m. → Sept. 1, 2025, 9 a.m.)
“Cloud-based analysis of Earth Observation data using open-source software” by Edzer Pebesma (Sept. 2, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → Sept. 2, 2025, 9:30 a.m.)

Version 0.7 July 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.6 July 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.5 July 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.4 July 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Building global and national ensemble Land Cover maps using data fusion” by Rolf Simoes.

Version 0.3 July 14, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Air-quality modeling for EU using spacetime ML” by Mustafa Serkan Isik.

Version 0.2 July 14, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

We have moved a session around: “Learning Representations: From Engineering Features to Engineering Pretext Tasks” by Nico Lang (Sept. 5, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → Sept. 5, 2025, 10 a.m.)

Version 0.1 July 14, 2025

We released our first schedule!