Accumulation of carbon in forests, either by natural growth or by reforestation in non-forested areas has a great potential to support mitigation of climate change. The political framework is set by policy needs as expressed in the Paris Agreement, where parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse …
It is no news that the use of social media by the science community has grown over the recent years. Platforms like Twitter offer a quick and efficient tool to engage/enlarge audiences across the globe to showcase research and findings, but not only… @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE (ESA Twitter account dedicated to Open Science and EO users) reaching …
Is the pandemic disrupting the growth and harvest of staple crops and the food supply chain? Read the full story.
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 …
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 …
Thanks to the work performed within the Sentinel coastal charting worldwide project, the effectiveness of Sentinel-2 data for bathymetry mapping has been proven. Read the full story.
ESA’s Sentinels for Evapotranspiration project, or Sen-ET for short, is exploiting machine learning techniques to combine Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 data for a 20m daily evapotranspiration monitoring in agricultural fields. Read the full story.
An experimental map of Europe at 10 m resolution displaying 13 land-cover classes can be viewed in full resolution on the CREODIAS EO Browser (select S2GLC and click search), or accessed as a WMS layer for expert use. It has been developed by processing Sentinel-2 data on the cloud with an almost fully automated approach. …
Wetlands worldwide are vanishing at an alarming rate. Read how Earth Observation helps to quantify and describe such changes as well as identify their causes in the article published on the occasion of recent World Wetlands Day.
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 …
