A new hope: Breaking the barriers of EO with open data, open processing capacity (András Zlinszky)
“A new hope: Breaking the barriers of earth observation with open data, open processing capacity, open code and AI” by András Zlinszky Earth Observation Summer School 2026 17 Aug 2026 – 21 Aug 2026, Istanbul, Turkey https://opengeohub.org/events/earth-observation-summer-school-2026 - Cernavoda nuclear power plant, Romania, with low water levels, true color: link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/9tih - Madrid megafire, Spain, wildfire visualization link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/ormu - EO2go app: https://www.eo2go.app/ - Garden City, Kansas, USA, moisture index link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/6cqj - Abdel-Rahman et al 2023 - mapping gold-bearing quartz veins: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42313-9 - Tuna fishing gallery feature https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/gallery/2026-6-2-tuna-fishing-mediterranean and tutorial notebook https://github.com/eu-cdse/notebook-samples/blob/main/sentinelhub/ship_detection_and_ais_identification.ipynb - ICCAT report on Tuna stocks https://www.iccat.int/Documents/Meetings/Docs/2022/REPORTS/2022_EBFT_SA_ENG.pdf - Menderes Valley, kNDVI vs NDVI link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/ohu2 - Open Data, Open Code, Open Question - Emmanuel Mathot's blog post: https://emmanuel.mathot.org/open-data-open-code-open-question/ - GLORIA database https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.948492 - EVA European Vegetation Archive https://euroveg.org/eva-database/ - YieldSat https://yieldsat.github.io/ - LUCAS land cover: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lucas/database/2022 - AI4CH4 project https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723002596?via%3Dihub#da0005 - Baltic sea water quality http://link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/gx3m Cited literature: Cole, D. (2026, August 1). Lost income, energy fears and a woolly mammoth: What Europe's dried-up rivers have yielded. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/01/eastern-europe-dried-up-rivers-tourism-energy-mammoth Carrington, D. (2026, July 31). 'Extremely scary findings' show climate crisis is supercharging Europe's wildfire weather. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/wildfires-extreme-weather-europe-spain-france-climate-crisis-analysis Esri. (2023, Fall). A legacy of GIS innovation in Portland, Oregon. ArcNews. https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcnews/a-legacy-of-gis-innovation-in-portland-Oregon Valerie Thomas. (2026, August 18). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas Maguire, Y. (2025, June 24). Our favorite moments from 20 years of Google Earth. Google Blog. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/google-earth-20-years-timeline/ Sherman, G. (2021, December 7). Qgis landmark events. Spatial Galaxy. https://spatialgalaxy.net/2021/12/07/qgis-landmark-events/ Donoho, D. (2024). Data science at the singularity. Harvard Data Science Review, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.b91339ef ICCAT (2022). Report of the 2022 ICCAT Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Stock Assessment Meeting. International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, Madrid, Spain.