With the Summer School, the project particularly addresses early-career researchers, graduate students, and professionals from government and civil society institutions in the Western Balkans with a professional interest in agriculture and rural development. The Summer School will offer an immersive program of lectures, practical exercises, and group discussions to enhance participants' awareness of the potential and pitfalls of remote sensing. It will provide hands-on training in satellite image analysis using machine learning techniques for crop classification and agricultural monitoring. Participants will work closely with leading international experts in satellite remote sensing and gain insights from a fully operational area-based monitoring system. In practical field work, they will collect training and validation data that will be analysed in the class.
Participation is free of charge and participants will receive full-board accomodation. The Summer School will take place in Drilon, near Pogradec, at the shores of lake Ohrid.
Interested individuals are invited to apply by 18 April 2025 with a CV and a letter of motivation at geo-wb6(at)ubt.edu.al.
Please find the official course announcement here.
The project GEO-WB6 is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and aims to improve the capacity building and scientific exchange in the six Western Balkan countries in the field of geospatial data analysis. For further information about the project, please visit www.geo-wb6.net.
