21.04.2023 FLEX user seminar

FLEX - ESA's photosynthesis mission: introduction, status and developments

Online

21.04.2023 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr. Matthias Drusch (European Space Agency/ ESTEC, Noordwijk, Niederlande) gives an overview of the current state of the FLEX mission.

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05.05.2023 FLEX user seminar

The red glow of plants - understand & measure chlorophyll fluorescence

Online

05.05.2023 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Prof. Uwe Rascher (Research Center Jülich, Germany) explains what sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is.

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26.05.2023 FLEX user seminar

Fluorescence for water system research: examples for aquatic and terrestrial environments

Online

26.05.2023 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Associate Prof. Alexander Damm (University of Zurich) presents applications of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in water research.

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29.09.2023 FLEX user seminar

Reconstruction of the full SIF spectral profile using emulation

Online

29.09.2023 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Miguel Morata Dolz (Universitat de València) explains how to derive the entire fluorescence emission spectrum with emulation.

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23.02.2024 FLEX user seminar

An overview of the FLEX Collaborative Platform

Online

23.02.2024 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr Marin Tudoroiu (ESA) gives an overview of the data portal for FLEX data

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24.05.2024 FLEX user seminar

Interpreting Sun-Induced chlorophyll Fluorescence under stress conditions

Online

24.05.2024 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr Sebastian Wieneke (University Leipzig) describes how to use SIF data to investigate plant stress.

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07.06.2024 FLEX user seminar

The Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System

online

07.06.2024 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr. Thomas Kaminski from The Inversion Lab, Hamburg reports on data assimilation for a better understanding of the carbon cycle.

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06.09.2024 FLEX user seminar

The FLEX CPF - Operational Payload Data Processing for Earth Explorer missions

online

06.09.2024 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Richard Hofmeister (Werum Software & Systems) explains "The FLEX CPF - Operational Payload Data Processing for Earth Explorer missions".

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13.12.2024 FLEX user seminar

SIF as a predictor in data-driven simulations of carbon fluxes

online

13.12.2024 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr. Sophia Walther (MPI Jena) shows how SIF can be integrated into the modeling of carbon fluxes.

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18.01.2024 FLEX user workshop

1. FLEX User Workshop

Hotel Collegium Leoninum

18.01.2024

Everyone is invited to the FLEX user workshop,  to discuss how FLEX data can be efficiently used.

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23.09.2024 Conference

Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing (RAQRS) 2024

l'Auditori Torrent

23.09.2024 - 27.09.2024

The 7th International Symposium "Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing", organized by the Global Change Unit of the University of Valencia, has "passive and active fluorescence" as one of its main topics.

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16.04.2024 Conference

13th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy

University‐Enterprise Foundation of the University of Valencia (ADEIT)

16.04.2024 - 18.04.2024

Join us to discuss current challenges in SIF research during the EARSeL-special session on sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence!

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11.12.2023 Conference

Fluorescence at the AGU23 fall meeting.

San Francisco, USA

11.12.2023 - 15.12.2023

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is hosting its fall meeting, titled "WIDE. OPEN. SCIENCE." ON.

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19.09.2023 Conference

FLEX Fluoreszence Workshop by ESA

ESA ESRIN

19.09.2023 - 21.09.2023

This International Workshop follows a series of events addressing remote sensing of vegetation fluorescence. With the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) – Sentinel-3 tandem mission in its implementation phase and fluorescence measurements becoming increasingly available from missions like OCO-2 and Sentinel-5 P, the workshop will focus on latest developments in fluorescence remote sensing.

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28.09.2023 workshop

Shining light from Photosynthesis: remote sensing of fluorescence - FLEX project office visits EEBIOMASS Virtual Workshop

Online

28.09.2023 13:00 - 15:00 Uhr

The FLEX project office is making a visit to the BIOMASS project office at the EEBIOMASS virtual workshop.

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10.05.2023 workshop

ESA CLIMATE-SPACE Information Day

Online

10.05.2023 09:00 - 12:30 Uhr

This online session provides a briefing on the European Space Agency's new climate programme, which will run from 2023-2029. The session will cover the programme's aims and objectives, the main themes of activity and to highlight upcoming tender opportunities for entities interested in participating.

FLEX is named as a satellite relevant to the CLIMATE-SPACE program.

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26.06.2023 Conference

4. symposium „new perspectives in earth observation“

World Conference Center

26.06.2023 12:00 Uhr - 28.06.2023 19:00 Uhr

The 4th symposium takes a look at exciting future fields of satellite-based earth observation (EO). The event should once again offer a platform for dialogue for researchers, application and service developers as well as data users of satellite earth observation and thus continue to strengthen the exchange and networking of the participants in the long term. Register here (Event is held in German)

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21.05.2024 workshop

Presentation of FLEX at CESOC

Bonn

21.05.2024

The German FLEX project office presents at the Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis (CESOC) in Bonn.

Here, Dr. Juliane Bendig talks about the development of methods for measuring sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in preparation for the FLEX mission.

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07.10.2024 workshop

Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System Study User Training

ESRIN

07.10.2024 - 08.10.2024

The Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System Study (TCCAS) is organizing a user workshop at ESRIN in Frascati. Thomas Kaminski presented TCCAS in our user seminar on 07.06.24.

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09.12.2024 Conference

AGU24

Washington, D.C.

09.12.2024 - 13.12.2024

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) invites you to its annual conference entitled “What's next for science.”

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09.09.2024 workshop

Training in 3D Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART)

Geozentrum der Universität Bonn

09.09.2024 09:00 Uhr - 10.09.2024 17:00 Uhr

In these two days, three DART-experienced scientists will explain and provide a basic training in use of the DART model. 

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23.06.2025 workshop

ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 - with strong FLEX presence

Austria Center Vienna, IAKW AG

23.06.2025 - 27.06.2025

The ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna will be exciting for future FLEX users. There are five sessions related to FLEX: Preparation for multimission assessment of the carbon cycle (Flex, BIOMASS and the Sentinel Expansion missions), Opportunities and challenges for global monitoring of photosynthesis from space, Global Carbon Budgets and Earth Observation, FLEX validation status and plans, Preparing for the FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) mission!

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11.03.2025 FLEX user workshop

2. FLEX User Workshop

Hotel Collegium Leoninum

11.03.2025 10:30 Uhr

The German FLEX project office is inviting to its second user workshop.

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10.06.2025 Conference

EGU Mary Anning Conference: Novel constraints on the coupling between the water and carbon cycles

TBA

10.06.2025 - 12.06.2025

The aim of this conference is to explore the relationship between water and the carbon cycle.

The further development of biogeochemical indicators, remote sensing observations, theoretical findings and modelling developments will be discussed and ways of cooperation will be identified and promoted. New methods and topics of interest include the linking of surface measurements and mechanistic processes, including products such as solar-induced fluorescence.

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11.04.2025 FLEX user seminar

Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sheds light on global evapotranspiration

online

11.04.2025 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr. Quan Zhang presents how solar-induced fluorescence can provide information about global evotransporation.

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16.05.2025 FLEX user seminar

Using SIF to improve the GPP simulated by a land surface model

online

16.05.2025 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

Dr. Fabienne Maignan and Dr. Cédric Bacour give a talk about how sun-induced fluorescence can be used to improve simulated GPP.

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30.04.2025 Conference

SpaceTech.NRW

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

30.04.2025 10:30 - 17:00 Uhr

The first space conference of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

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