An ESA training course will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 2 to 7 September 2007. It will be devoted to the exploitation of Earth Observation data from ESA and Third Party Mission instruments for land applications, with a focus on applications over Europe.

The training course is hosted by the Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ISEGI-UNL), with coordination support from the Remote Sensing Unit of the Portuguese Geographic Institute (Instituto Geográfico Português, IGP).

As an advanced training course, it is targeted to the European and Canadian research and development community, in particular post-doc researchers as well as masters and PhD students.

The course will include lectures by leading scientists as well as hands-on computing exercises exposing students to remote sensing applications and illustrating the efficient use of software tools for the exploitation of data from the ESA and Third Party Mission instruments.

Detailed information can be found at the Training Course website.

The deadline for application is mid May 2007.