Earth observation technologies provide great innovation potential in the raw materials sector. RawMatCop Alliance offers an advanced online course (7, 9 ,14 and 16 October 2025) with hands-on learning to demonstrate how Copernicus can provide cost-effective and safe solutions while complying with environmental regulations. Advanced approaches highlighting scalability, accuracy assessment, and time-series of imagery are offered in the course and provide valuable support to informed decision-making.
Entrepreneurs and industry professionals from the exploration, mining, and processing sectors who are looking for innovative techniques to monitor and manage raw materials in their organization will benefit from the course. We also welcome geoscientists, development and environmental experts, researchers, master and doctoral students as well as remote sensing practitioners interested in learning raw materials applications.
Advanced Course Topics
- Efficient handling of time-series and large datasets
- Scalable analysis of satellite data for raw materials
- Best practices of data integration
- Leveraging Copernicus data and open tools to revolutionize the sector
Case Studies & Exercises
- Exploring mineral resources – opportunities & challenges
- Exploring environmental impacts of mining using Sentinel-2
- Monitoring mining operations – surface activities & material
- Monitoring Ground Motion – mapping InSAR temporal series
