In December 2021, EUFAR brought you the first of its series of Airborne Science Webinars. Four more webinars have been held since that time and we expect that these will be arranged at regular intervals over the coming years.
EUFAR is once again jointly promoting a session at the EGU General Assembly 2022 - our collaborators are IAGOS, HEMERA, SIOS and LIFEWATCH . The event runs from 23rd to 27th May 2022.
BROWN Phil, FORMENTI Paola, RUHTZ Thomas, Oct. 27, 2021
Imaging spectroscopy from an airborne platform brings a lot of advantages. One of which is the ability to cover larger areas compared to ground measurements and the ability to simulate and validate satellite images...
The International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021, a joint initiative of Belgium and the Netherlands, is a fully virtual event from 12-16 July 2021 including technical sessions with...
Towards the next generation airborne imaging spectrometer data... VITO is proud to announce that VITO has been granted the opportunity to develop a new data processing infrastructure for the CWIS-II airborne imaging spectrometer.
BOMANS Bart, HUENI Andreas, REUSEN Ils, May 21, 2021
EUFAR, jointly with the HEMERA, SIOS and LIFEWATCH Research Infrastructures, is promoting a session on airborne science at the EGU 2021 General Assembly.
BROWN Phil, FORMENTI Paola, RUHTZ Thomas, Nov. 04, 2020
41st IGARSS (IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society) Annual Symposium in Brussels, 11-16 July 2021. A Call for invited session proposals is now open.
On 11/12 November 2020, EUFAR is hosting an online workshop to examine the status of atmospheric temperature measurements from both research and operational aircraft.
The Atmospheric Survey Aircraft (ASA) is operated by the Met Office with the primary objective to measure pollution in the lower atmosphere. A new contract to fly at least 50 hours (approximately 15 sorties) over the coming 8 months has just been signed.
A German team, under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), wants to find out how strongly the restrictions in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic will affect the atmosphere. Over the next two weeks, as part of the BLUESKY research programme, scientists will measure concentrations of trace gases and pollutants in the air over European urban areas and in the flight corridor to North America. The aim of these research missions is to investigate how reduced emissions from industry and transport are changing atmospheric chemistry and physics.
EUFAR and ESA support airborne science session at WHISPERS 2021 - 11th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and SIgnal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing
Open session on atmosphere, land and ocean monitoring You will probably be aware that the EGU has had to cancel the 2020 General Assembly in Vienna due to the ongoing...
BROWN Phil, FORMENTI Paola, RUHTZ Thomas, April 01, 2020
APEX is an airborne hyperspectral imaging instrument that is celebrating 10 years of operation. You can read about some of the scientific highlights from the period in this blog. APEX...
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019 brought 16,273 scientists from 113 countries together in Vienna, Austria, from 7 to 12 April 2019. The EUFAR AISBL contributed to its success...
BROWN Phil, CANTRELL Christopher, FORMENTI Paola, RUHTZ Thomas, VAJAIAC Nicolae Sorin, May 20, 2019
For visitors to EGU2019 website, you will again find EUFAR represented on the exhibition booth of the ENVRI community of Environmental Research Infrastructures. If you have potential interests in an...
The air quality of urban megacities has been studied several times over the past few decades. These studies have used airborne and ground-based platforms usually to measure basic quantities such...
The EARSeL Special Interest Group on Imaging Spectroscopy (SIG IS) organised its 11th Workshop from 6th - 8th of February 2019 in Brno, Czech Republic. Recent advances in technology, methods and applications of imaging spectroscopy have been presented and discussed.
A special session dedicated to EUFAR has been organised at the 11th EARSeL SIG Imaging Spectroscopy workshop to be held in Brno, Czech Republic from 6 to 8 February 2019. For more information on the workshop,...
The EUFAR AISBL is initiating a new session dedicated to "Airborne observations, campaigns, application and future plans" at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria (7-12 April...
We are excited to begin registration for the EPIC (Earth science Project International Collaborative) Workshop. The meeting will focus on sharing information and lessons learned when planning and managing earth science...
After a lengthy negotiation period of about 2 years, 8 European institutions representing 6 different countries involved in airborne environmental research have signed the necessary Statutes to constitute EUFAR as an AISBL – an international non-profit association under Belgian law. These documents were deposited with the Belgian courts on 30 August 2017. The formal constitution of the EUFAR AISBL was officially publicised in the Moniteur belge on 23 January 2018 (search by N° Entreprise: 687.812.944 or Dénomination: EUFAR).
BOUGEAULT Philippe, BROWN Phil, GERARD Elisabeth, July 25, 2018
The 3rd Executive Board and General Assembly meetings of the EUFAR AISBL (international not-for-profit association under Belgian law) took place from 28 to 29 June 2018 in Brussels, at the...
BOUGEAULT Philippe, BROWN Phil, GERARD Elisabeth, July 25, 2018
Entitled, "Early detection of GPP-related regime shifts after plant invasion by integrating imaging spectroscopy with airborne LiDAR", the article features in the Journal "Remote-Sensing for the Environment" (Volume 209, May 2018, Pages 780–792).
RS4ForestEBV Training Course - Airborne remote sensing for monitoring essential biodiversity variables in forest ecosystems Bavarian Forest National Park and DLR the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, 3 to 14...
ABDULLAH haidi, DARVISHZADEH Roshanak, DOMINGO Dario, GARA Tawanda, HOLZWARTH Stefanie, NEINAVAZ Elnaz, SKIDMORE Andrew, TORRESANI michele, March 02, 2018
While waiting for the publication in the Moniteur Belge of the royal acknowledgement of the EUFAR AISBL (an international not-for-profit association under Belgian law), the 2nd General Assembly and Executive...
BOUGEAULT Philippe, BROWN Phil, GERARD Elisabeth, Feb. 05, 2018
The 5th and final General Assembly of the current EUFAR2 project (2014 -2018) took place from 22 to 25 January in the medieval town of Lugo in Spain. EUFAR partner...
The EUFAR scientific coordinator, Phil Brown from the UK's Met Office, met up with the Open Access Government and published an interesting two-page article on EUFAR and looking to the...
ENVRIplus offers opportunities for free-of-charge transnational access to selected user groups to six research facilities in cross-cutting areas in Europe: ATMOSPHERE, BIO-ECOSPHERE, HYDRO-MARINE, AND SOLID EARTH domain.
The 5th ENVRI week took place from 6 to 10 November 2017 in Malaga, Spain, as part of the ENVRIplus initiative to host two ENVRI weeks per year bringing together different...
The 1st General Assembly and Executive Board meetings of the EUFAR AISBL took place from 10 to 11 October 2017 in Brussels, at the EUFAR AISBL registered office...
BOUGEAULT Philippe, BROWN Phil, GERARD Elisabeth, Oct. 17, 2017
This summer, 3 schools were organised in Shannon (Ireland), Cambridge (UK) and Bavaria (Germany), involving 46 teachers and organisers, 58 PhD students and post-docs, 3 operators and 3 aircraft.
CAIRO Francesco, DI CARLO Piero, HENRY Olivier, LANOTTE Alessandra Sabina, REUSEN Ils, Sept. 05, 2017
After a lengthy period of negotiation, 8 European institutions representing 6 different countries involved in airborne environmental research have signed the necessary Statutes to constitute EUFAR as an AISBL – an international non-profit association under Belgian law. These documents will now be deposited with the Belgian courts so that EUFAR AISBL will be formally constituted early in 2018.
39 participants from 12 nations and 26 institutions participated in the EUFAR/IAMAS/IUGG/ICCP Workshop on Processing of Cloud Particle Measurements at German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, from 7 to 9 July 2017. Its aims were to discuss, optimize and harmonize cloud data analysis in order to augment data quality of current optical array probes employed on aircraft.
BAUMGARDNER Darrel, MCFARQUHAR Greg, VOIGT Christiane, Aug. 04, 2017
The 2nd International Conference on Airborne Research for the Environment (ICARE 2017) was held at DLR - the German Aerospace Research Centre, in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich (Germany), from 10 to 13 July 2017.
BROWN Phil, DEQUEKER-CORMONT ANNE, GERARD Elisabeth, HENRY Olivier, Aug. 01, 2017
The EUFAR workshop on stratospheric airborne research was held in Rome, at the CNR headquarters, from 4 to 5 May 2017. Its aims were to discuss the future research topics that may be tackled by a stratospheric research aircraft, and to provide suggestions on how to secure the availability of such an aircraft in Europe in the coming decade.
EUFAR conducts Joint Research Activities (JRA) that are directed towards the advancement of airborne environmental science observations and their exploitation by the research community.
A priority for the development of the European airborne research fleet is to maintain the capability of a stratospheric research aircraft. To this aim, various solutions should be explored, either...
EUFAR's annual General Assembly took place in Warsaw from 14 to 17 February 2017. Hosted and organised by EUFAR partner, University of Warsaw, the meeting was held on the...
The EXAEDRE project is a 36-month (1 October 2016 to 1 October 2019) project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It will contribute to the HyMeX ST-Lightning and TS4a (Corsican site) activities.
The workshop on atmospheric correction of remote sensing data took place at the Harnack House of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem from 26 Oct. to 28 Oct. 2016. It was cofunded by EUFAR and the European Space Agency and hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin. 30 scientists and experts of remote sensing applications coming from more 10 different European and other international countries attended the workshop and exchanged their knowledge and expertise on this specific topic.
EUFAR expert workshop on hyperspectral remote sensing for soil applications 28-29 September, GFZ, Potsdam How can emerging remote sensing technologies support the digital mapping and monitoring of soils? To find...
EUFAR's TTO activity seeks to support the transfer of technology between experts in airborne measurements and industry partners. Each year 2 to 3 promising technologies will be selected and studied...
One of the objectives of ENVRIplus is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge among staff working in Research Infrastructures (RI) or related to the implementation of new RI's. ENVRIplus therefore...
The EUFAR Standards & Protocols team is proud to announce the end of beta phase for ASMM (Airborne Science Mission Metadata) and EMC (EUFAR Metadata Creator) tools. Brand new versions ...
The EUFAR ICCP Workshop on Data Processing, Analysis and Presentation Software of Cloud Probes took place at the University of Manchester from 23 to 24 July 2016. More than 40...
The International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely-piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) held its fourth conference from 23 to 25 May 2016, at the International Conference Centre at Météo-France, in Toulouse, France....
EUFAR's TTO activity seeks to support the transfer of technology between experts in airborne measurements and industry partners, including small to medium enterprises. Each year 2/3 promising technologies will be...
ENVRIplus is a Horizon 2020 project bringing Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures, projects and networks together with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research...
Created in 2005, SAFIRE is a French public research infrastructure providing the scientific community with instrumented research aircraft for altitude environmental measurements, based in Toulouse, France. Jointly managed by Météo-France, the National...
The SCALEX flight campaign seeks to investigate biosphere-atmosphere over an orographically structured terrain. Airborne activities include regional scale flights with the ENDURO, an ultra-light aircraft operated by KIT, as well...
DIARRA Lilian, JUNKERMANN Wolfgang, April 13, 2016
The Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA) seeks to investigate the influence of anthropogenic and natural emissions on the atmospheric composition over South West Africa and to assess their impact...
The EUFAR2 project mid-term review and 3rd General Assembly took place from 5 to 8 April 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic. Side meetings on the joint research activities (HYLIGHT and...
Under the framework of EUFAR's transnational access programme, the research campaign AHSPECT consisted of conducting airborne measurements over agro-forestry areas of southwestern France, along with intercomparisons with ground-based measurements at...
A new set of Calls for Proposals for Transnational Access to EUFAR aircraft is now open and can be accessed from the TA Application page. Potential applicants should note that...
The EUFAR networking activity "Standards and Protocols" is tasked with the compilation of standards, protocols, guidelines and open source software tools in order to adopt a good practice approach within...
Created in 2008, "Wings for Science" is a unique initiative offering non-profit flight hours to local research projects in remote areas across the globe. The project's activities have so far...
The joint research activity ALIDS was conducted under the previous EUFAR contract (2008-2013), and involved the conception, design and development of the ALIDS probe, an airborne spectrometer used to...
We're very excited to announce the official launch of our brand new website which goes live on 12 November 2015 and continues to be accessible at www.eufar.net. Our goal with...
The GAMARF campaign, with transnational access flight hours financed by EUFAR took place above the island of Lampedusa in 2008. The campaign sought to estimate the aerosol shortwave and longwave...
At the end of November 2014, the Future of the Fleet activity leader, Francesco Cairo (CNR) launched an online survey to evaluate the user needs of the airborne research community. The...
The MORE transnational access airborne campaign was aimed at investigating the vertical distribution of aerosol and ozone in a rural coastal area with complex orography. The campaign was funded and...
EUFAR, through its Transnational Access (TA) activity, is currently accepting proposals centered on polar science applications to be flown in the austral summer of 2015. If selected, the submitted projects...
Hosted by the Poznan University of Life Sciences (PULS), the EUFAR/OPTIMISE training course on "Spectrometry of a Wetland And Modelling of Photosynthesis with Hyperspectral Airborne Reflectance and Fluorescence" (SWAMP) was held from 6 to 16 July 2015 in Obrzycko- Rzecin
The EUFAR supported transnational access flight campaign SAVEX-D (Sunphotometer Airborne Validation Experiment) took place in August 2015 in the Cape Verde archipelogo. Clustered with the ICE-D (Ice in Clouds Experiment – Dust) campaign led by the Met Office and the Universities of Leeds and Manchester. Clustered with the ICE-D (Ice in Clouds Experiment – Dust) campaign led by the Met Office and the Universities of Leeds and Manchester, SAVEX-D was allocated 10 flight hours on FAAM’s BAe146.
During the month of August 2015, EUFAR supported two airborne remote sensing projects in Iceland. Both flight campaigns were performed by NERC ARSF’s Dornier DO228, and airborne VNIR-SWIR-LWIR-TIR hyperspectral data, LiDAR and digital photography data were collected.
The AHSPECT initiative is aimed at collecting hyperspectral airborne measurements over agro-forestry areas of southwestern France for assessing the agricultural health, physiology and satellite products validation. The project is supported by EUFAR’s transnational access programme.
During the previous funding period of the EUFAR project (2008- 2013), several efforts were made to harmonise different processes within the research infrastructure. Common protocols conforming to existing European and...
Hosted by EUFAR partner DLR, the German Space Agency, the 2nd EUFAR General Assembly (GA) took place from 25 - 27 March 2015 in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
VITO, the EUFAR Joint Research Activity HYLIGHT coordinator, in collaboration with the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) organised a two-day expert workshop on Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) software in November 2014.
EUFAR2 finally kicked off on 1 February 2014, following the signing of the grant agreement in December 2013. Covering the period 2014 - 2018,EUFAR2 is funded by the European Union...
For the 10-year anniversary of EUFAR, an international conference was organised in October 2010 Toulouse at the Météo-France conference centre. Scientists involved in airborne research were invited to exchange experience...