2025 – 2026 Events

Jul
10
REDICOP Community Meeting

Preparing for the 2025 Hurricane Season: Remote Sensing Readiness

Quarterly virtual meeting covering pre-season satellite tasking protocols, SAR baseline acquisition strategies, and coordination with NWS/NHC for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
🕓 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET 💻 Virtual (Zoom)
Disaster Satellite SAR Free
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Sep
21
NASA / NOAA

NOAA GeoXO & GOES-U Pre-Launch Briefings

NASA and NOAA pre-launch news conferences covering the next-generation Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program and GOES-U mission updates for advanced weather and environmental monitoring.
🕓 Sep 21, 2025 📍 Kennedy Space Center / Virtual
Satellite Government Climate
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Oct
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NOAA / NESDIS STAR

2025 NOAA Science Seminars Series

Ongoing seminar series covering remote sensing research at NOAA STAR including wildfire detection via satellite, Arctic greenhouse gas emissions monitoring, and ocean color algorithm development.
🕓 Monthly through Dec 2025 💻 Virtual
Satellite Climate Webinar Free
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Oct
TBD
REDICOP Community Meeting

Fall 2025 Meeting — Post-Hurricane Season Analysis

Quarterly meeting reviewing 2025 hurricane season remote sensing activations, damage assessment methodologies, and lessons learned from SAR, optical, and LiDAR deployments.
🕓 Time TBD 💻 Virtual
Disaster SAR LiDAR
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Dec
15
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

AGU Fall Meeting 2025

The world's largest Earth and space science conference, featuring 25,000+ attendees, 1,800+ sessions on remote sensing, natural hazards, geodesy, climate science, and geospatial AI applications.
🕓 Dec 15 – 19, 2025 📍 Washington, D.C.
Conference Satellite Disaster AI/ML
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2026
Feb
16
ASPRS / Geo Week

2026 ASPRS Annual Conference at Geo Week

Premier geospatial industry event combining ASPRS photogrammetry, LiDAR, UAS mapping, and remote sensing workshops with the broader Geo Week exhibition featuring 250+ exhibitors and 4,000+ professionals.
🕓 Feb 16 – 18, 2026 📍 Denver, CO — Colorado Convention Center
Conference LiDAR Satellite
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Mar
16
Lunar and Planetary Institute / NASA

57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)

Annual conference presenting the latest results in planetary science and remote sensing, including orbital imaging of planetary surfaces, spectroscopy, radar sounding, and LiDAR altimetry applications.
🕓 Mar 16 – 20, 2026 📍 The Woodlands, TX & Virtual
Satellite Conference Government
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Mar
23
Via Satellite / Access Intelligence

SATShow Week (SATELLITE x GovMilSpace)

Major satellite industry event combining the SATELLITE Conference with government and military space sessions. Covers EO constellation updates, SAR tasking, space-based SIGINT, and commercial data services for disaster response.
🕓 Mar 23 – 26, 2026 📍 Washington, D.C. — Convention Center
Satellite Conference
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Apr
13
Space Foundation

41st Space Symposium

Premier global space event bringing together 15,000+ attendees from civil, commercial, and national security space sectors. Features EO satellite program updates from NASA, NOAA, NGA, and commercial providers.
🕓 Apr 13 – 16, 2026 📍 Colorado Springs, CO — The Broadmoor
Satellite Conference Government
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Apr
27
ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)

12th International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment

ISPRS-sponsored conference covering Earth observation, environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, change detection, and multi-sensor data fusion techniques using satellite and aerial platforms.
🕓 Apr 27 – 29, 2026 📍 Paphos, Cyprus
Conference Satellite Environmental
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May
24
JpGU / AGU Joint Meeting

JpGU-AGU 2026 Joint Meeting

Joint geoscience meeting bridging Asian and American research communities. Sessions cover InSAR deformation monitoring, tsunami early warning systems, volcanic hazard assessment via remote sensing, and earthquake damage mapping.
🕓 May 24 – 29, 2026 📍 Chiba, Japan
Conference Disaster InSAR
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Jun
3
IAEM / FEMA Emergency Management Institute

2026 Emergency Management Higher Education Colloquium

Annual colloquium advancing emergency management education and research. Covers integration of remote sensing and geospatial technologies into EM curricula, AI-powered situational awareness, and community resilience assessment.
🕓 Jun 3 – 4, 2026 📍 Emmitsburg, MD — National Emergency Training Center
Disaster/EM Government Conference
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Aug
9
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)

IGARSS 2026 — IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

The premier annual remote sensing conference. 3,000+ attendees presenting cutting-edge research in SAR/InSAR, hyperspectral imaging, LiDAR, microwave radiometry, AI for EO, and disaster response applications. Features NASA, ESA, JAXA agency sessions.
🕓 Aug 9 – 14, 2026 📍 Washington, D.C.
Conference Satellite SAR AI/ML Disaster
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Aug
23
Utah State University / AIAA

40th Annual Small Satellite Conference

World's premier conference on small satellite missions including CubeSat EO constellations, miniaturized SAR systems, on-orbit AI processing, and rapid-revisit disaster monitoring architectures.
🕓 Aug 23 – 26, 2026 📍 Logan, UT — Utah State University
Satellite Conference AI/ML
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Oct
14
Natural Disasters Expo USA

Disasters Expo Houston 2026

Fifth annual disaster preparedness, response, and recovery expo. Covers geospatial technology for situational awareness, drone-based damage assessment, satellite imagery for insurance, and community resilience planning.
🕓 Oct 14 – 15, 2026 📍 Houston, TX
Disaster Expo
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2026
TBD
TecHive Association / PreventionWeb

AI + Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Conference 2026

Global conference exploring how AI strengthens disaster preparedness and resilience. Topics include ML-driven flood prediction, satellite-based early warning systems, NLP for social media disaster detection, and AI damage assessment from aerial/satellite imagery.
🕓 2026 — Dates TBD 📍 Location TBD
AI/ML Disaster Conference
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Dec
TBD
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

AGU Fall Meeting 2026

Annual AGU Fall Meeting returning to San Francisco. NASA and NOAA town halls, Natural Hazards sessions, remote sensing instrumentation, and Earth system modeling presentations.
🕓 Dec 2026 📍 San Francisco, CA
Conference Satellite Climate
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Past Events

Apr
15
REDICOP Community Meeting

Post-Wildfire Assessment with SAR Data

Demonstrated SAR-based burn severity mapping using Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data. Covered coherence change detection, backscatter analysis, and integration with dNBR from Landsat/Sentinel-2 optical imagery.
🕓 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET💻 Virtual👥 145 attendees
SARWildfire
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Jan
22
REDICOP Community Meeting

AI-Driven Flood Mapping: Lessons from 2024

Reviewed AI/ML approaches to flood extent mapping using SAR and optical data from Hurricane Helene and Milton responses. Presented U-Net and transformer architectures for water body segmentation.
🕓 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET💻 Virtual👥 178 attendees
AI/MLFloodSAR
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2024
Oct
17
REDICOP Community Meeting

Hurricane Milton Response: Remote Sensing After-Action Review

After-action review of remote sensing activations during Hurricane Milton including NOAA aerial survey coordination, Maxar open data releases, Copernicus EMS activations, and Civil Air Patrol imagery collection.
🕓 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET💻 Virtual👥 210 attendees
HurricaneSatellite
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Jul
11
REDICOP Community Meeting

Preparing for the 2024 Hurricane Season

Pre-season briefing covering NHC 2024 outlook, commercial SAR tasking agreements, NOAA satellite status, and coordination protocols with the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters.
🕓 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET💻 Virtual👥 192 attendees
HurricaneSatelliteSAR
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Apr
18
REDICOP Community Meeting

Commercial Satellite Imagery for Disaster Response

Overview of commercial EO providers (Maxar, Planet, Capella Space, ICEYE) and their disaster response programs. Covered tasking procedures, licensing models, open data policies, and resolution/latency tradeoffs.
🕓 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET💻 Virtual👥 160 attendees
SatelliteDisaster
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