Come together: the convergence of blockchain, AI and IoT
The EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum gathers a group of experts working on the European level to analyse and report on a wide range of blockchain themes driven by the …
Month: March 2019
Flood disaster risk financing: e-Drift services
The demand The frequency and impact of disasters continues to rise, calling for effective disaster risk management and innovative risk financing solutions. Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) can increase the ability …
Snow avalanche detection and monitoring with Sentinel-1
Incomplete avalanche activity datasets introduce uncertainty to avalanche forecasting Roughly 150-250 people die each year in avalanche accidents. Infrastructure loss and costs from evacuations and road closures and the …
Understanding fjord circulation with Sentinel-2
Observing phenomena occurring in remote locations at high latitudes is not an easy task. Apart from the scarcity of in-situ measurements available in locations such as Greenland, satellite observations with …
Living Planet Fellows at EGU2019
The annual European Geosciences Union General Assembly is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event. Annually, it attracts over 14,000 scientists from all over the world, of which more …
Diego Loyola – Sentinel-5P
The unprecedented spatial resolution offered by Copernicus Sentinel-5P’s Tropomi instrument means that we can now better analyse the complex relationship between tropospheric ozone and climate.
Sentinel-3 keeps watch on Antarctic ice loss
The loss of ice from Antarctica is one of the principal causes of contemporary sea level rise. Tracking the changes that are currently occurring across this remote and inaccessible continent …
Warming up for the use of remote precipitation measurements at high latitudes
A good aircraft heating was necessary to secure proper functioning of the on-board instrumentation during the airborne campaign that took place last November in the Arctic, flying between Ottawa and …