Eyes in the Sky: AI for Real-Time Environmental Monitoring
From Pixels to Protection: Real-Time AI for Earth’s Alarms
About This Course
Eyes in the Sky” is a concise, hands-on workshop on using drones, satellites, and AI for real-time environmental monitoring. Through the Silvanet & Silvaguard case study, you’ll see how remote sensing and ML fuse to detect deforestation and wildfires, track air quality, and estimate emissions and vegetation carbon stocks—while addressing real-world hurdles like data gaps, accuracy, and scaling in low-resource regions.
Aim
To equip participants to design, evaluate, and deploy AI-driven, real-time environmental monitoring pipelines that fuse drone and satellite imagery for rapid detection of deforestation, wildfires, and air-quality issues—grounded in the Silvanet & Silvaguard (Germany) case study—and to develop practical strategies for overcoming data gaps, accuracy limits, and scalability challenges in low-resource settings.
Course Objectives
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Introduce core concepts of AI-enabled remote sensing for real-time monitoring.
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Demonstrate ingestion & preprocessing of satellite, drone, and sensor data.
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Apply change detection and early-warning models for deforestation and wildfires.
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Fuse multi-resolution data (UAV + EO + IoT) for robust signal detection.
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Estimate air-quality proxies (e.g., AOD) and vegetation carbon stocks.
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Evaluate model performance (IoU/F1/PR) and calibrate alert thresholds.
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Explore the Silvanet & Silvaguard case to derive deployable design patterns.
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Address data gaps, accuracy limits, and scaling in low-resource contexts.
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Prototype a minimal alerting workflow and web map/dashboard for decision support.
Syllabus
📅 Day 1 – Platforms, Sensors & Mission Design
- Scope & requirements: deforestation, wildfire, air quality (latency, resolution, revisit)
- Platforms/payloads: UAS (RGB/TIR), public satellites (Sentinel-1/2, Landsat, MODIS/VIIRS), ground AQ (PM₂.₅/NO₂/O₃)
- Data plumbing: orthorectification, tiling, STAC, spatiotemporal indexing, cloud/gap handling
- Case study overview: Silvanet & Silvaguard (Germany) — early warning, integration, limitations
- Governance/ethics: privacy, community data rights, responsible alerting
📅 Day 2 – Analytics & Fusion
- Wildfire: TIR/VIIRS anomaly flags, smoke segmentation, change detection, alert thresholds
- Deforestation: time-series change (BFAST/Delta), semantic segmentation, accuracy assessment
- Air quality: EO AOD ↔ ground fusion, bias correction, nowcasting under missing data
- Carbon/emissions: multispectral+SAR biomass, FRP→emissions, uncertainty bands
- Deployment at scale: robustness, drift monitoring, human-on-the-loop, low-bandwidth constraints
📅 Day 3 – Hands-On: End-to-End AOI Build (single lab)
- Create STAC-indexed AOI data lake (Sentinel-2 + VIIRS + one drone scene)
- Run pipeline: cloud mask → wildfire/smoke flags → forest-loss polygons (with confidence)
- Fuse EO + ground AQ to produce daily PM map (bias-corrected)
- Estimate stand-level carbon with basic uncertainty
- Publish a lightweight dashboard (alerts, loss, AQ index, carbon snapshot)
Who Should Enrol?
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Environmental & forestry professionals, wildfire/disaster management teams
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Remote sensing & GIS analysts (QGIS/ArcGIS/Google Earth Engine users)
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Data scientists & ML engineers working with geospatial data
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Air-quality, climate, and sustainability researchers/practitioners
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UAV/drone operators and Earth-observation startups
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Government agencies, utilities, and NGOs involved in monitoring & response
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Graduate students and faculty in Environmental Science, Geography, CS/AI
Course Outcomes
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Build a real-time EO pipeline (satellite + drones + sensors).
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Train models for deforestation change & early wildfire signals.
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Fuse multi-resolution data; detect smoke/thermal anomalies.
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Estimate air-quality (AOD) and vegetation carbon stocks.
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Evaluate (IoU/F1), tune thresholds to cut false alarms.
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Deliver: alerting workflow, mini dashboard, and a one-page rollout for low-resource settings.
Course fee
Learners in India
₹2,499
Learners outside India
$50
- Video lectures
- Study material
- Certificate after completion
- 365-day access
The recordings are being uploaded. They appear in your dashboard as soon as they are ready, and we will e-mail you then.
Frequently asked questions
How is this course taught?
Through recorded video lectures from the original live workshop, with the study material. Watch at your own pace, any time.
How long do I have access?
365 days from your registration, on your NanoSchool dashboard.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes, an e-certificate after completion, with a QR code anyone can verify and an "Add to LinkedIn" button.
How can I pay?
By card, UPI or PayPal on the payment page; international bank transfer is also available there.
What is the refund policy?
See our Returns, Refunds & Cancellation policy: Returns, Refunds & Cancellation policy
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