The European Earth Observation sector is currently facing important developments concerning managing of large volumes of EO data coming from Copernicus as well as national European missions. These are already reaching the Petabyte scale and growing along with the needs of the user community to have a real-time and unobstructed access to existing satellite data …
On 10 March 2020 the EO and AI for health and urban resilience workshop was transmitted in live streaming. The main themes covered were: The Effects of Climate Change and Pollution on Human Health (particularly in the urban environment) Vector Borne Diseases, in particular zoonoses (e.g. West Nile Virus, Rift Valley Fever, Malaria) Waterborne Infectious …
The objective of the ESA Baltic Regional Initiative is to enhance the use of state-of-the art European satellite missions (ESA and European missions) to support definition and cooperative implementation of regional priorities in the Baltic, in line with national policy objectives of the Baltic Rim development, in the context of the relevant EU legislation, as …
The aim of this EO Atlantic Regional Initiative applications development is to embed EO-derived information into pre-operational regional monitoring, assessment and planning activities (e.g. enhanced environmental monitoring and assessment, improved management of natural resources in the region, support to regional programmes in the fields of economic development, civil security and climate resilience). The objective is …
WorldSoil aims at developing, in close cooperation with users and stakeholders, a global Earth Observation-Soil Monitoring System (EO-SMS) on a suitable cloud environment utilizing open source and information available from operational, in situ and reference data and additional variables and/or indices derived from EO data together with blending and modelling techniques. The development shall be …
Exploitation Platforms are a central element of ESA’s Earth Observation (EO) Innovation Europe concept, which aims at the integration of EO data and information for a much broader use, for scientific, social and economic purposes, as well as for the generation of new commercial applications and services. ESA is funding the definition of a common …
The movie above is demonstrating how the QuantEO service may be used to detect water over time in Sub Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia. This is a sample application of the service, developed by Pixstart within an Open Call project, which allows to produce classified Sentinel-2 images on demand and near real time …
The 2019 Φ-week is at starting blocks and a wealth of activities are about to start this afternoon: scientific talks, side events, bootcamp, exhibit and poster sessions. In order to get the most out of this exciting experience, check-out the overall programme below, stay tuned on @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE twitter account for additional insights and have a …
A one day workshop organized at the occasion of the 2019 ESA Ф-Week on September 12 will be dedicated to the design of the new set of use cases on the crossover of Earth Observation, blockchain/DLT and IoT which were identified in ESA White Paper as suitable for testing the feasibility and added value of …
Chișinău is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova and the country’s main industrial and commercial centre and transportation hub. While still being the least urbanised European country with over 55% of the population residing in rural areas (as of 2014), particularly Chișinău is expected to be faced with a strong inflow …
