7th IEEE/GRSS Young Professionals & ISPRS SC Summer School – 2021

The joint event "GRSS Young Professionals & ISPRS SC Summer School" has been organized since 2015 on a yearly basis at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in the city of Curitiba (Paraná). The event shifted to Presidente Prudente in 2016 (Sao Paulo), Lages in 2017 (Santa Catarina), Campo Grande in 2018 (Mato Grosso do Sul), Sorocaba in 2019 (Sao Paulo), and due to pandemic situation (COVID-19) occurred virtually in Belo Horizonte during 2020 (Minas Gerais) and will again occur virtually during 2021 in Chapecó (Santa Catarina).

First planned to occur in Chapecó (Santa Catarina) in 2021, and due to the current pandemic situation (COVID19), the seventh edition of the event hosted in a virtual way with the theme “Emerging Trends in Remote Sensing Science and Applied Machine Learning”. Totally free and virtual for everyone.

The event is organized in several talks every week starting from August 12 to December 16, 2021, every two weeks. It aims to guide the career of young professionals as well as higher education professionals, students of courses related to the area, and graduate students who make use of Remote Sensing data and images. It consists of lectures, round tables and interactive sections given and moderated by prominent professionals who work in companies, teaching/research institutions, and academia.