The European Space Agency has welcomed the first International Visiting Experts under the new Integrated Policy Expert Scheme (IPES). This innovative scheme aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge Earth observation (EO) solutions and international and European policies on environment and sustainable development. The scheme fosters collaboration and further ensures that EO solutions are policy …
Using data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, together with those from the US–German GRACE mission and from ground-based instrument networks, scientists have measured atmospheric density changes resulting from auroral Joule heating during 276 geomagnetic storms between 2010 and 2024. Such dramatic shifts in Earth’s upper atmosphere associated to geomagnetic activity are described as “hot flushes.” These …
A new, higher resolution, version of the OceanSODA‑ETHZ was presented at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. This product, developed through a creative blend of machine‑learning methods, reveals how oceans absorb (and sometimes release) carbon dioxide on a fine-scale, 25 × 25 km grid every eight days, a thirtyfold improvement over previous monthly, 100 × 100 km datasets. This allows capturing rapid and …
Scientists have unveiled a new insight into the origins of the North Atlantic’s volcanic hotspot: it all comes down to the lithosphere being extra thin. By combining gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite, seismic and other terrestrial datasets, and thermodynamic inversion methods, researchers have found that ancient upwellings from the Iceland Plume funneled into these …
Building on the story published last February, this update highlights new advanced innovative Inverse-SAR (ISAR) algorithms developed and tailored for satellite platforms within the EO4Security ISAR project. These innovations support a wide range of use cases and represent significant progress in Earth observation for security applications. Techniques explored The following techniques were investigated: Parametric …
Contemporary history was characterized by heinous crimes committed during numerous conflicts that violated international law. Since 1998, when it was established, the International Criminal Court (ICC) took over the task “to investigate, prosecute and try individuals accused of committing the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, namely the crime …
Are you interested in the role of EO in the health downstream sector? Don’t miss the opportunity to keep the pace with the latest applications and activities by attending the relevant LPS25 sessions, demos and meetings listed in the following overview table: After LPS25, stay tuned for the 22-25 September EO4Health User Forum …
When it comes to climate change, the land surfaces are where the vast majority of impacts happen. The task of monitoring those across the globe is formidable and must necessarily rely on satellites – at a significant cost: the measurements are only indirect and require comprehensive physical understanding. ESA’s Carbon Cluster projects LCC and TCCAS …
If you’re looking to explore how space-based solutions are transforming our path toward a sustainable, low-carbon future, this year’s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna offers a rich lineup of sessions, agoras and networking opportunities focused on the Green Transition. The sessions will present how space solutions are powering the green transition and supporting climate action. They …
From May 12–16, 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) participated in the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Global KM-scale Hackathon, a global event that brought together the climate modelling community to accelerate research using climate simulations at unprecedented kilometre-scale resolution (horizontal resolution < 10 km). Hosted simultaneously across ten international nodes spanning nine time zones …
