Permafrost plays an important role in the global climate and is also one of the components of the Earth system that is most sensitive to global warming. Maps, produced by ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, are providing new insights into thawing permafrost in the Arctic. Read the full story.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is pleased to announce, jointly with the National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC) under MOST, the release of the Dragon 5 Cooperation Call for proposals. The Call will provide opportunities for scientists from ESA participating states and P.R. China to cooperate in the exploitation of EO Data covering P.R. …
South America is a rapidly developing continent of planetary importance. It hosts the Amazon forest, which is the single largest source of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions into the global atmosphere; it is also a region where extremely violent and extensive wildfires are known to cause widespread damages and fatalities. In addition, the degradation …
As per the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) of PHIVOLCS 1, cumulative elevation changes of the volcanic edifice based on precise leveling (PL) measurements on March 2019 indicated slightly inflation of the Taal volcano. The observed inflation of the edifice 1 starting on January 2019 was also recorded by continuous GNSS. Read more about it. …
The uninhabited coral reef island of Fatu Huku in the southeastern Marquesas Islands is explored in a brand new chapter of the Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat (Second Edition) book, published by Elsevier. The discussion of the relationships between its benthic habitats and morphometry (bathymetry, slope, hotspots, and ecotones) is based on data collected and …
According to the World Economic Forum the production of agriculture commodities including palm oil, soy, beef, timber, cocoa and rubber are accounting for the majority of deforestation world-wide. This ‘deforestation trajectory’ is directly associated with a growing carbon footprint of basic food staples therefore a wide range of new programmes and agribusinesses commitments emerge to …
Wetlands worldwide are vanishing at an alarming rate. Read how Earth Observation helps to quantify and describe such changes as well as identify their causes in the article published on the occasion of recent World Wetlands Day.
