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 …
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. …
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 …
Scarcity of water resources is today a real issue in some geographic areas. Temperatures have increased by 0,85°C on average between 1880 and 2012 and could reach 4,8°C increase by 2100 compared to the period 1986-2005, according to the latest IPCC report. As one of the consequences, agriculture and viticulture are facing droughts at the …
This ITT is part of the ESA Polar Science Cluster and aims at fostering collaborative research and international collaboration, bringing together different expertise, data and resources and ensuring that the final result may be bigger than the sum of the parts. More information, results and the complete set of projects is provided in the dedicated …
The execution of the construction projects is usually the longest phase in the project life cycle and it typically consumes the most energy and the most resources. Global construction companies cannot be physically present all along the execution phase to control the implementation of the construction on-site. Then, they are used to control advancement only …
Historically, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has represented the biggest share of the EU budget. From more than 70 percent of finances in the 1980s to about 40 percent, the CAP provides farmers with direct payments to make their businesses more profitable, reduce risks associated with weather and guarantee food supply chains across the continent. …
The scientific goal of the study is to improve our understanding of the vegetation opacity data sets from SMOS and other passive microwave measurements and their information content. With more than 40 years of measurements from passive microwave measurements and an even longer time series of measurements in the optical domain, the overarching objective of …
The thin ozone layer positioned in stratosphere is crucial for the survival of life on Earth. This stratospheric ozone layer shields the Earth from most of the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. In the late 1970s, scientists found out that humanity was creating a hole in this protective ozone shield. In 1985, the Vienna Convention for …
