If you couldn’t attend today’s event and missed the introduction to activities in FutureEO Block 4 EO Science for Society, Global Development Assistance (GDA), and Investing in Industrial Innovation (InCubed) programme, don’t miss the chance to replay the recording, available on the EO Open Science YouTube channel. Morning Session 09:00 Welcome and Introduction 09:05 …
The pandemic has been and is still striking hard on cultural heritage: collapse in tourism revenues (according to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, as of early April last year, 71% of the 1,121 World Heritage sites had been closed and 18% were only partially open), increased vulnerability to looting, suspension of rehabilitation, conservation and archaeological exploration …
The European Space Agency and the WorldWater project with support from CNES, NASA, EARSC, CEOS and GEO invite interested parties to express their interest in participating in a Round Robin inter-comparison of inland surface water detection and monitoring algorithms using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 imagery. The objective of the Round Robin is to enable …
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a data driven agenda, containing a framework of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, supported by 231 indicators. Data is at the core of the 2030 Agenda. Its success depends on the availability of high quality, timely and universally accessible data. Satellite observations have the ability …
An interactive guide to the Atlantic Regional Initiative ecosystem, explaining how to get involved, from participating to the calls to learning about ongoing projects up to taking advantage of the data and services, has just been released. Read it now!
The objective of the call is to provide a framework to rapidly respond to new innovative ideas. The scope of the call covers elements of Block 4 of Future EO-1 Segment 1. The particular focus for innovative activities under each element is as follows: Grand Science Challenges EO for a Resilient Society Artificial Intelligence for …
In a world where public health threats are increasingly challenging, wide availability of EO data, increased computational power and AI untapped potential open new opportunities to create early warning systems and support public authorities in decision making. The AIDEO project explored the use of AI applied to a pool of EO datasets in the context …
ESA actively promotes uptake of state-of-the-art ICT platform resources for EO exploitation by European research activities. This uptake phase is supported by opportunities to access these resources free-at-point-of-use, implemented via vouchers mechanisms. Today two initiatives are in place, one sponsored by ESA, one sponsored by the European Commission allowing research activities to request vouchers that can …
Four out of the best weekly contributions to the Custom Script Contest – focused on the support of space assets during the COVID-19 crisis – were invited to upscale their ideas to the European level. Two of them have now been selected for integration into the RACE (Rapid Action Coronavirus Earth observation) dashboard. The winning …
Online workshop, July 29 2020 10:30-16:30 CET EO information services are undergoing a major change due to rapid technological developments. Cloud computing is now a central element of broadening the use of satellite imagery, such as Earth observation data (EO), for scientific, social and economic purposes. This shift to platform-based economy has implications concerning …
