IES’s researchers won the Best Poster Award in the ESA World Cover 2017 conference

The IES's researchers Dainis Jakovels, Agris Brauns, Jevgenijs Fiļipovs, Juris Taškovs, Roberts Rotbergs in collaboration with researcher Kārlis Zālīte from Tartu Observatory have created the poster "Assessment and monitoring of grasslands in Latvia: exploring the capabilities of Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical data" (SentiGrass) that has won the prestigious Best Poster Award in the ESA World Cover 2017 conference that was hosted in ESA-ESRIN from 14 to 16 March 2017.

The conference was open to Land Cover users, scientists, students, representatives from National, European and international space agencies, value adding industries, laboratories and universities. Conference participants were asked to vote for their favourite poster and IES's team was delighted with the result.