At the Living Planet Symposium 2025, EarthCODE played a central role in promoting Open and FAIR Science as part of ESA’s wider commitment to open science principles. The team delivered hands-on workshops, tutorials, and one-on-one sessions aimed at onboarding projects into the Open Science Catalogue and the ESA Project Results Repository (PRR). These sessions helped researchers increase …
The Living Planet Fellowship (LPF) aims at supporting the new generation of scientists in ESA Member States to undertake cutting-edge research in Earth Observation and Earth System and Climate Science, maximise the scientific impact of ESA missions and European EO capacity and respond to the main challenges of the new ESA Earth Observation science strategy: Earth …
During the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, Austria, a key milestone in the roadmap towards implementing FAIR Open Science in support of the ESA Science Strategy was marked with the Open Science Partnership Ceremony, held on Thursday, 26 June. The event brought together representatives from ESA, ESA Member States and international partners to …
The European Space Agency’s Earth System Science Hub Challenges 2025 have kicked off with a first workshop organized from 7-11 July 2025 with students from the University of Leicester and Sorbonne University/IPGP during the week of 7–11 July 2025. The Science Hub Challenges, organised twice per year by the European Space Agency, offer a unique opportunity for …
Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists collaborating in the Southern Ocean Freshwater (SO Fresh) project have discovered a surprising reversal in the Southern Ocean: instead of becoming fresher as Antarctic sea ice melts, surface waters are growing saltier, particularly south of 50° S, with salinity rising even as ice cover rapidly retreats. This unexpected trend …
The European Space Agency has welcomed the first International Visiting Experts under the new Integrated Policy Expert Scheme (IPES). This innovative scheme aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge Earth observation (EO) solutions and international and European policies on environment and sustainable development. The scheme fosters collaboration and further ensures that EO solutions are policy …
Using data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, together with those from the US–German GRACE mission and from ground-based instrument networks, scientists have measured atmospheric density changes resulting from auroral Joule heating during 276 geomagnetic storms between 2010 and 2024. Such dramatic shifts in Earth’s upper atmosphere associated to geomagnetic activity are described as “hot flushes.” These …
A new, higher resolution, version of the OceanSODA‑ETHZ was presented at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. This product, developed through a creative blend of machine‑learning methods, reveals how oceans absorb (and sometimes release) carbon dioxide on a fine-scale, 25 × 25 km grid every eight days, a thirtyfold improvement over previous monthly, 100 × 100 km datasets. This allows capturing rapid and …
Scientists have unveiled a new insight into the origins of the North Atlantic’s volcanic hotspot: it all comes down to the lithosphere being extra thin. By combining gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite, seismic and other terrestrial datasets, and thermodynamic inversion methods, researchers have found that ancient upwellings from the Iceland Plume funneled into these …
Building on the story published last February, this update highlights new advanced innovative Inverse-SAR (ISAR) algorithms developed and tailored for satellite platforms within the EO4Security ISAR project. These innovations support a wide range of use cases and represent significant progress in Earth observation for security applications. Techniques explored The following techniques were investigated: Parametric …
