The 2024 Autumn School on ‘Drones and Sensors in Atmospheric Sciences’ has been successfully concluded

The 3^rd Autumn School, organised by CARE-C of the Cyprus Institute, entitled “Drones and Sensors in Atmospheric Sciences”, which took place on 11 November to 15 November 2024, has been successfully concluded.

The week- long course took place at the Cyprus Institute’s premises in Nicosia, Cyprus and it was attended by 14 students from 14 different countries including Lebanon, Finland, India, Portugal, Pakistan and other.

The main focus of this year’s Autumn School was the operation and scientific exploitation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sensor systems in atmospheric sciences. The students had the opportunity to visit some of the Centre’s facilities such as the Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL) UAV airfield and the Ayia Marina Xyliatou station of the Cyprus Atmospheric Observatory, where they learned more about atmospheric data measurements through the Centre’s bespoke UAVs and ground-based instruments.  They were also offered theoretical and hands-on training on the technical operation of sensors in the lab as well as computer-based data processing.

This Autumn School was organized within the framework of the H2020 Teaming Project EMME-CARE (emme-care.cyi.ac.cy), and the Horizon Europe project Edu4Climate (edu4climate.cyi.ac.cy).  Course organization was led by CARE-C, The Cyprus Institute, with the contribution of the EMME-CARE Advanced Partners and the Edu4Climate Consortium partners.