Why relax with ouzo and a swim in the cool Aegean waters when we can be in 40-degree Athens for the 44th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024)? This year’s theme, “Acting for Sustainability and Resilience”, has brought together a passionate community of researchers and practitioners.

We're here to collaborate and design tools to understand and protect Earth’s ecosystems. From geophysics to meteorology, the conference covers it all, blending geosciences and engineering to monitor Earth’s environments, oceans, and ice caps. After all, we’re the enthusiasts who interpret satellite data, look after our orbiting buddies, and occasionally send our regards back to the stars!

Οur team successfully completed yesterday’s session about "Best practices for space-borne aerosol, cloud, and precipitation profile products", co-chaired by Eleni Marinou during the 4th day of IGARSS 2024. Bellow is a list of our oral/poster participation:

•  “DEFINING VALIDATION PROTOCOLS FOR SPACE-BORNE AEROSOL AND CLOUD PROFILE PRODUCTS” by Vassilis Amiridis

•  “ACROSS MEDITERRANEAN EXPERIMENT FOR THE CAL/VAL OF THE EARTHCARE MISSION” by Eleni Marinou

•  “SENSITIVITY STUDY USING ATLID LIDAR SIMULATOR AND UPCOMING PLANS FOR THE EARTHCARE VALIDATION” by Peristera Paschou

•  “FROM AEOLUS TO EARTHCARE AEROSOL ASSIMILATION IN REGIONAL MODELS” by Thanasis Georgiou

•  “INVESTIGATING THE PERFORMANCE OF AEOLUS L2A PRODUCTS OVER EUROPE WITH EARLINET GROUND-BASED LIDARS” by Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri

•  “ACTRIS, EARLINET, AND CLOUDNET CAL/VAL CONTRIBUTION TO EARTHCARE MISSION” by Eleni Marinou

IGARSS has been so far an amazing experience for us, as it provided fantastic opportunities to meet peers in the field and discuss best practices for validating aerosol and cloud data, in order to ensure top-notch data quality for our remote sensing and earth observation activities.

A huge shoutout to each one of our team for their incredible work: Vassilis Amiridis, Thanasis Georgiou, Eleni Marinou, Peristera Paschou, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri and also Niki Asimakopoulou, Anna Kampouri, George Katoufas, Dimitra Kouklaki, Matthew O'Callaghan, Iliana Koutsoupi, Alexandra Tsekeri and Ioanna Tsikoudi.

For more information regarding our work in exploring and establishing best practices for validating data from complex aerosol and cloud spaceborne missions, you can visit the links here and here.

*IGARSS 2024 is hosted by the National Observatory of Athens - Operational Unit BEYOND EO Centre NOA of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, with the support of the National Technical University of Athens and the Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH).