A one-week training course on modern satellite data processing has begun at the University of Sopron with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the HunEdu project, where international experts are sharing their knowledge with Hungarian teachers and researchers, the higher education institution revealed on Monday.
The program, being implemented in collaboration with the University of Sopron, Obuda University, and DATelite Kft., combines the tools of geoinformatics, image processing, and artificial intelligence. The aim is to enable the higher education system to prepare students to handle and analyze the enormous amounts of data coming from space.
Satellite images can be used to monitor the health of forests, water shortages in agricultural areas, the effects of climate change, and even transportation and tourism trends in real time. However, data processing is only possible with the most advanced cloud-based technologies and methods supported by artificial intelligence,
they emphasized.
The first week-long training course was organized by the University of Sopron, where researchers from institutions such as Wageningen University in the Netherlands, GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences in Germany and the University of Wisconsin in the United States gave lectures and conducted practical exercises. Participants included lecturers and researchers from numerous Hungarian institutions, including the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eötvös Loránd University, Obuda University, and the universities of Pécs and Debrecen.
The announcement quoted Kornél Czimber, deputy dean of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Sopron and main organizer of the event, who said that earth observation has become a strategically important field and that there is a need to train professionals who are able to analyze and interpret data and put it to practical use.
According to Levente Ronczyk, managing director of DATelite Kft., the goal is for universities to produce professionals who can be immediately employed by industry.
The university emphasized that
the training will lay the foundation for future specialized engineering studies and contribute to Hungary’s integration into the international forefront.
The Sopron initiative is a milestone in Hungarian higher education, as the further training of teachers and researchers will enable the education of a new generation capable of responding to the challenges of the future, they added.
Via MTI, Featured image: Pexels
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