When considering the implications of thawing permafrost, our initial worries are likely to turn to the major issue of methane being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming or issues for local communities as the ground and infrastructure become unstable. While this is bad enough, new research reveals that the potential effects of permafrost …
ESA’s next Living Planet Symposium is set to take place on 23–27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany. In gearing up for this prestigious event, it’s now time to submit abstracts to ensure a much sought-after slot to present topics such as the latest scientific findings on our planet, novel Earth observing technologies and new opportunities …
WorldCover provides a new baseline global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2020 based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, developed and validated in 9 months from last data take. Key end-users, such as FAO, OECD, UNCCD, WRI, CGIAR, and EU DEFIS were an integral part of the project, following the whole project workflow …
Don’t miss the first VANTAGE coding challenge on The Urban Environment! VANTAGE is a new, online, cloud-based platform for analysis and exploitation of video from space. It includes a repository of high-definition videos captured from EO satellites, and a suite of analytical tools for extracting value and insight from the videos, plus support for user-defined …
Wildfires are a natural component of the Earth system, important for nutrient release and vegetation growth. Climate change, however, is contributing to more frequent, more destructive and less predictable wildfires worldwide. Australia, in particular, experiences regular bush fires during the summer, but the devastating 2019-2020 bushfire season, known as the Black Summer, was unprecedented in …
How can a digital replica of Earth help us understand our planet’s past, present and future? As part of the fourth edition of Φ-week, a group of European scientists have put forward their ideas on the practical implementation of Digital Twins and the potential application areas for a Digital Twin Earth in the real world. …
Learning AI is one of the fastest growing technology fields. Organisations are already starting to implement modifications to their business models due to AI and Machine Learning being widely adopted as a helpful tool to build solutions for resilient and sustainable societies that can adapt to the effects of climate change. Learning AI has thus …
Focusing on the New Space economy and innovations in Earth observation, ESA’s fourth Φ-week kicks off on Monday 11 October. A number of articles will be published on ESA web pages providing insights from the event. Not to miss any of them, you will find a dynamic, increasingly up-to-date list with links to the articles …
Cloud-based EO platforms are an integral element for facilitating the paradigm change in Earth Observation (“bringing the algorithm to the data” et al.). Digital EO platforms are “Enablers” as they can boost the productivity of scientific/commercial users by simplifying the commonly encountered complex EO workflows. Key enabling elements include for example powerful and intuitive analytical operators, …
Technological innovation is a critical asset in the security and law enforcement domain. The Earth Observation-based services market is constantly changing and evolving, taking advantage of the increasing data sources as a result of new EO missions, provided by public programmes such as Copernicus, national EO missions and by a variety of commercial or public/private …
