The European Space Agency has contributed also this year’s UNFCCC COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, held from November 11 to 22, 2024. As global leaders, scientists, and advocates gathered to negotiate and advance climate action, ESA underscored the importance of Earth observation (EO) data in understanding and addressing climate challenges. ESA’s delegation of Earth Observation, …
The European Space Agency’s Earth Observation Programmes (EOP) Directorate has established the new Integrated Policy Expert Scheme (IPES). This innovative initiative aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge Earth observation (EO) solutions and international and European policies on the environment and sustainable development. Why this scheme? One of EOP fundamental goals is to accelerate …
The International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ is an international agreement among space agencies to support the immediate disaster response phase with satellite data and information. This is organized with Charter activations that are triggered by Authorized Users. Since its inception in 2000, it has supported 723 activations in 129 countries worldwide. In support …
In nowadays rapidly changing global landscape, Earth observation is playing an ever more prominent role and new actors, new technologies, new business models and new downstream needs are entering the picture. A number of sessions will focus on EO industry present and future at next year’s Living Planet Symposium, one of the largest events worldwide …
ESA’s Φ-week fourth edition took place last 11-15 October, focusing on the New Space economy and its associated innovations. Recordings of the sessions from this hybrid formula event (virtual for the public and in person for invited speakers) are now publicly available. Find here below direct links to recordings of a selection of EO science …
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 …
The EO4SD-Urban project is pleased to release the recordings of a free webinar series on satellite-derived geospatial information for urban development. The webinars are part of the capacity building offered to our project partners (development bank staff, technical staff from participating cities, etc.). The webinars introduce the latest methodologies of obtaining geospatial information from satellite …
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 …
The animation above gives a visual impression of Mediterranean temperature dynamics during the last 9 years by displaying daily Medspiration L4 products of 2 km resolution SSTfnd from 30 August 2010 to 25 May 2019. Medspiration is an ESA- funded project, started in 2004, aimed at producing a robust and reliable set of Sea Surface …
By working together, ESA and the EC will be able to shape better how we contribute to the challenges of achieving a sustainable Europe by 2030 and goals set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate
