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A day in the life of the APEX team,
Image of Bart Bomans and Johan Mijnendonckx, produced by VITO
A bright blue sky, four great colleagues and a unique hyperspectral camera to collect images from areas all over Europe. Johan Mijnenendonckx and Bart Bomans give you some insights in the daily life of our APEX team.

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Keeping an 'eye' on our European waters

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Nineteen years after the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, a framework to guarantee that there is enough good-quality water for its citizens and the environment, the European Waters Assessment 2018 report prepared by the European Environment Agency (EEA) states ‘European water getting cleaner but big challenges remain’.

With the..
Gary Free 03.07.2019
Sentinel-2, Copernicus, water quality monitoring, Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency
WaPOR makes it possible to identify those areas where a further optimization is needed of the crop production system.

Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East

Laurent Tits 17.06.2019
Agriculture, land cover, irrigation, FAO, WaPOR
CropSAR lets us guard our crops from space, even when they're hiding beneath the clouds!

Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!

Kristof Van Tricht 03.06.2019
Time series, Agriculture, Sentinel-2, EO Data, Sentinel-1
The main reason for plastic debris is our misuse of (disposable) plastic. We need to map the plastic flux from land to sea, so that we can draw up efficient mitigation measures.

Plastic debris. Time to turn the tide ...

Lisa Devriese 23.05.2019
Water & coast, plastic, zwerfvuil, VLIZ

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019
Land use, PROBA-V, Copernicus, land cover, fractional covers
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A day in the life of the APEX team,

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Keeping an 'eye' on our European waters

Gary Free 03.07.2019
Sentinel-2, Copernicus, water quality monitoring, Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency

Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East

Laurent Tits 17.06.2019
Agriculture, land cover, irrigation, FAO, WaPOR

Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!

Kristof Van Tricht 03.06.2019
Time series, Agriculture, Sentinel-2, EO Data, Sentinel-1

Plastic debris. Time to turn the tide ...

Lisa Devriese 23.05.2019
Water & coast, plastic, zwerfvuil, VLIZ

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019
Land use, PROBA-V, Copernicus, land cover, fractional covers

Training our future scientists and ecosystem modellers

Ils Reusen 02.05.2019
Remote Sensing, ecosystem, training, TRUSTEE
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