The kick-off meeting of our Visegrad project took place in Krakow - #V4 Communication platform for use of Earth Observation methods in biotic forest disturbances. Cooperation towards knowledge!
The first meeting of the newly formed group took place at the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Agriculture in Krakow. The first day during the whole morning participants introduces their home institutions and their research topics. After lunch, we visit the Laboratory of Geomatics and then colleagues potential and usage possibilities of recent and upcoming remote sensing platforms. The second day we start with the excursion of local museum of soil (Muzeum Gleb) and continue with the introduction of possibilities of international research funding. The final remarks introduce the objectives of the group and set the date of follow-up meeting in Prague.
Totally 16 participants attended the meeting, 2 from Hungary, 4 from Slovakia, 4 from Poland, and 6 from the Czech Republic.
Thanks to all attendees, Laboratorium Geomatyki for perfect hosting and Ewa Błońska for detailed information about soil types.
