Dear all

In the framework of the H2020 project LANDSUPPORT: Development of Integrated Web-Based Land Decision Support System Aiming Towards the Implementation of Policies for Agriculture and Environment (www.landsupport.eu) we are organizing a winter school whose details are below reported. 
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Angelo Basile 

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The LANDSUPPORT Winter School
 
The Earth’s Critical Zone (ECZ) is the near-surface environment at the interface between rock, soil, water, air and living organisms, and it regulates the natural habitat as well as the availability of life-sustaining resources. Understanding ECZ, and the interactions occurring within ECZ, is crucial for addressing today’s environmental and agricultural challenges – and this requires the integration of various scientific domains.
 
However, ECZ is seldom tackled in high-level trainings – and this is where LANDSUPPORT comes into play, offering an inter-disciplinary training opportunity to PhD students and young scientists – and in general, researchers that are interested in the topic will be welcome.
 
The LANDSUPPORT Winter School will be held in Portici (Naples – Italy) on 14-18 February.
The 5-days training will guide students in developing a basic knowledge about (i) understanding and processing ECZ data as acquired by field observation, lab analysis and remote sensing techniques, Raster and vec­tor data, Datacube, (ii) understanding and processing ECZ modelling such as water flows and pollut­ants transport in the vadose zone-soil-plant-atmosphere system, crop growth, land take, etc. and (iii) the use of the outcoming resulting data to be employed for developing WEBGIS or geospatial S-DSS applications.
 
How to apply?
To ensure the best learning experience participation is limited to 30 participants. If you wish to participate, please register by 7 January 2022: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdls58FrmwY6l8cLnFokxCQJzk_CdfXefqQo-F-2ZeE2qi9Gg/viewform <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdls58FrmwY6l8cLnFokxCQJzk_CdfXefqQo-F-2ZeE2qi9Gg/viewform>
The Winter School will be held in person but a hybrid system will be available in case COV­ID 19 will not enable students and lecturers to travel. No cost of registration is required.
 
 
 



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Dr. Angelo Basile
Senior Researcher
Istituto per i Sistemi Agricoli e Forestali del Mediterraneo
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISAFOM)
Piazzale Enrico Fermi,1
80055 Portici (NA)

Tel. +39 06 4993 564
cell +39 3477904811

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