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 …
The overarching goal of the EO AFRICA RD Facility is to foster an African-European RD collaboration enabling an active research community and creative innovation processes for a continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa. The RD Facility will identify African EO research challenges, launch research calls, leverage modern cloud computing development tools and support a …
There are significant opportunities to be explored in the context of “tracking and tracing” of agriculture commodities, in particular by the convergence of traditional EO information services with emerging distributed data, platforms and IoT sensor networks. These new concepts allow to demonstrate where the produce has originated, how it has been handled, how well it …
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 …
In April 2019 ESA has released a White Paper on “Blockchain and Earth Observation” to define the key focus areas for the EO community to explore in the context of the Space 4.0 and future digital engineering for space missions. This publication is a second installation of the “Issue Briefs” by the ESA Blockchain / …
Training of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms requires collecting large volumes of training and reference data to feed analytics and predictive models. However, there is often lack of the training data for machine learning techniques. The scarcity is caused, generally speaking, by reluctance to share data by third parties for confidentiality, privacy and other reasons (i.e. …
Coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists are invited to participate in a virtual hackathon on May 30-31 dedicated to putting open data to work in developing solutions to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are contributing unique capabilities ranging from …
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 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 …
