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?
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.