The first meeting of the discussion platform “Science for Recovery and Sustainable Development” took place on January 31, 2025.
During this inaugural session, together with Dr. Garik Gutman, the NASA LCLUC Program Manager, we explored existing multispectral satellite missions for monitoring land cover and land use to study urbanization, forest monitoring, and agricultural dynamics. Through active discussions, we collectively assessed future plans and prospects for utilizing NASA satellite missions, particularly for Ukraine’s post-war recovery.
The platform brought together a total of 119 participants, including 50 students, from leading universities in Ukraine (72 from Kyiv, 5 from Melitopol, and 19 from Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Lviv), along with international researchers from the USA (15 from Maryland and 4 from Worcester, South Dakota, and Richland), as well as 4 participants from the UK, Germany, Colombia, and Bangladesh.
We express our deep gratitude to all participants for their active engagement in discussing crucial topics and sincerely appreciate the successful launch of the platform by our co-organizers – Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the University of Maryland. We also extend our thanks to NASA, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for their support.
For those who could not join us, the recording is available via the provided link. Stay tuned for our upcoming announcements!