Amongst all medal winners and a number of exciting athletes personal stories at the Beijing winter Olympics, now coming to an end, a prominent actor has raised to the podium: snow. Being it for the environmental impact of the almost entirely human-made snow of the ski and snowboarding courses or for the athletes struggling in …
Research carried out within the 3D Earth project, where an international group of geoscientists joined forces to develop a state-of-the art global model of the lithosphere, gives us a better understanding of the natural processes that are occurring deep below our feet. This might bring the possibility of predicting eruptions – such as the astonishing …
A special collection of papers examining the physical, biogeochemical and ecosystem changes related to permafrost thaw and the associated impacts has been recently featured on the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment journal. One of the papers in the collection, describing how scientists from Europe and the US are working together to better track permafrost carbon …
Over the last decades, greenhouse gases and aerosol concentrations have been increasing in the atmosphere, disrupting the balance in the Earth system between incoming and outgoing radiation fluxes. Part of the outgoing longwave radiation being blocked, the system has reemitted less energy towards space than it has received from the Sun. This imbalance at the …
Availability of vast volumes of space-based EO data on cloud environments is a growing trend that enables the science and value-adding communities to perform processing conveniently and at large scale without going through the cumbersome burden of data downloading. Many cloud platforms provide immediate access to data preparation processors as well. The advanced processing environments, …
An internal research fellow opportunity is currently open for applicants who have recently completed, or are close to completing a PhD in physics, engineering or Earth system science with research experience and publication records. The applicant may select his/her preferred theme between: Ocean science Activities will focus on exploiting the latest advances in EO satellite …
The HYDROSPACE-GEOGLOWS 2021 workshop, organised by ESA in collaboration with CNES and the GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGloWS), took place in June 2021. It offered the opportunity to have a community discussion focused on future challenges of Inland Water monitoring and prediction, and future observational requirements. An overview of the state-of-the-art presented in the …
In September 2021, Sinergise and Polar View started a collaboration to expand the capabilities of the Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform (Polar TEP). ESA has sponsored a series of seven TEPs on different subjects to provide insight into how our oceans, atmosphere, land and ice operate and interact as part of an interconnected earth system by …
The 2021 SWARM+SCIENCE workshop, successfully held on 28–29 June, brought together ESA experts and the Swarm community to discuss the most relevant results of recent ESA projects in the context of magnetosphere – ionosphere – lower atmosphere interactions and to identify the main open questions to be addressed in coming years. The Agency is pleased to …
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 …
