European Facility For Airborne Research Sept. 29, 2020, 18:16
Written by , , on Sept. 17, 2020 in News, Upcoming Events.
Last update on Sept. 29, 2020.
EUFAR is hosting an online workshop to examine the status of atmospheric temperature measurements from both research and operational aircraft.
The atmospheric temperature is a key state parameter for both research and operational meteorological purposes. Measurements of temperature underpin the majority of research studies of atmospheric physical and chemical processes including large- and small-scale dynamics ...
Written by , on Sept. 10, 2020 in News.
Last update on Sept. 23, 2020.
The Atmospheric Survey Aircraft (ASA) is a modified Cessna 421 operated by the Met Office in association with Alto Aerospace and based at Bournemouth, UK. Its original mission was to be on standby to monitor volcanic ash in UK airspace. With funding from the UK Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) it was modified with additional instrumentation ...
EUFAR collaborates with the ENVRI Community of Research Infrastructures that support multi-disciplinary research in the environmental sciences. You can read the latest ENVRI Newsletter for August 2020 here.
One of the main articles in this newsletter concerns the publication of an open-access book "Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences" that has been ...
Written by on June 3, 2020 in News.
Last update on July 16, 2020.
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 ...
Written by , on April 8, 2020 in Hyperspectral Imagery and Airborne Laser Scanning, News, Upcoming Events.
Last update on April 30, 2020.
Paper submission for Whispers, 14-16 January 2021, Amsterdam is open: www.ieee-whispers.com/paper-submission/
EUFAR and ESA are organizing a joint session entitled Airborne hyperspectral campaign results in support of current and future hyperspectral satellite missions. The session chairs are Ils Reusen (EUFAR) and Malcolm Davidson/Dirk Schuettemeyer (ESA)
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Written by on Dec. 4, 2019 in Hyperspectral Imagery and Airborne Laser Scanning, News.
Last update on April 9, 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 has also been in demand for a number of airborne missions that were supported by EUFAR with Transnational Access funding. You can read about one ...
Written by on Oct. 2, 2015 in Data Archive, News.
Last update on Dec. 9, 2019.
The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) are pleased to announce the launch of the EUFAR Flight Finder tool (EFF) developed as part of the EUFAR2 data archive work-package. This is a geospatial-temporal search interface to locate EUFAR data within the EUFAR data archive at the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) and can be found ...
Written by on July 31, 2015 in News, Standards & Protocols.
Last update on Dec. 9, 2019.
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 American airborne science best practices were developed and disseminated to the EUFAR community. These protocols served only as guidelines for the EUFAR partners and implementation ...