ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence team member, Mr. Christos Theocharidis participated in the 8th International Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification in the BIDR – The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research of Ben – Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Mr. Theoharidis presentation was entitled ‘’Monitoring Forest Health Through Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis to Assess the Effects of Extreme Drought Event in Forest Seasonality’’.