Train yourself on Copernicus programme and related activities - COPERNICUS INFOSESSIONS

To promote awareness of the many uses of Copernicus data and information, while providing the opportunity for hands on demonstrations and basic training on different topics, the European Commission is organising regularly information sessions in the EU Member States.

The home page of the Copernicus Infosessions

InfoSessions are open and free to registered participants. A session was held on 12 June 2018  in Bratislava, Slovakia. Below are the materials presented, for your perusal.


Welcome and Introduction

• General Introduction to Copernicus [PDF - 4.15 MB] - (Stefano La Terra Bella, European Commission)

Access to Data, Tools and Finance

• Introduction to Copernicus data access [PDF - 3.38 MB] - (Muriel Lux, Noveltis, EC Contractor)
• How to get access to Copernicus data, tools and finance [PDF - 1.49 MB] - (Annekatrien Debien, Copernicus Support Office)

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 

• CLMS - Product portfolio and data access [PDF - 0.87 MB] - (Ines Ruiz, GAF, EC Contractor)

Land Cover and Agriculture

• Land cover monitoring based on Sentinel-2 data [PDF - 3.42 MB] - (Bruce McCormack, EUROGI, EC Contractor)
• Land cover monitoring in project CORINE Land Cover [PDF - 0.78 MB] - (Lubos Balazovic, Slovenska agentura zivotneho prostedia)
• CORINE Land Cover and Urban Atlas data - Source of information for land change evaluation and urban heat islands modelling [PDF - 5.96 MB] - (Jan Feranec, Slovenka akademia vied)
• Detection of arable lands to determine farmers' eligibility to EU aid [PDF - 3.06 MB] - (Alfredo Falconieri, NEREUS / GeoSpazio Italia, EC Contractor)

Forestry and Environmental Protection

• Forest Damage detection supported by the HR forest layer [PDF - 5.38 MB] - (Ines Ruiz, GAF, EC Contractor)
• Satellite imagery in forestry [PDF - 5.36 MB] - (Ivan Barka, Narodne lesnicke centrum - Lesnicky vyskumny ustav)
• Estimation of forest biomass production [PDF - 1.99 MB] - (Muriel Lux, Noveltis, EC Contractor)
• Monitoring of the stability of protected sites & related pressure: Natura2000 [PDF - 4.11 MB] - (Ines Ruiz, GAF, EC Contractor)

Copernicus Emergency Management - Early Warning

• Copernicus EMS forecasting floods and fires: Early Warning systems [PDF - 4.06 MB] - (Annalaura Di Federico, e-GEOS, EC Contractor)

Copernicus for Entrepreneurs

• Developing a mobile application for citizens with Copernicus data [PDF - 3.9 MB] - (Annekatrien Debien, Copernicus Support Office)
• Exploitation of SAR data [PDF - 0.68 MB] - (Juraj Papco, Slovenska Technicka Univerzita v Bratislave)
• Horizon2020 - Copernicus related-projects participation possibilities [PDF - 0.68 MB] - (Jakub Simkovic, Centrum vedecko-technickych informacii SR)

Note that the presentations made by EC Contractors during the event - do not forget to mention the copyright - as well as many others, are also available in the form of professional videos on the Copernicus Youtube channel!