Summer 2022 in Northern Italy has been extremely dry, as high resolution (1 km) soil moisture maps based on Sentinel-1 show. This is particularly clear when comparing to a “normal” year such as 2020. Read the full story.
A paper published in Nature describes a new approach for removing the pesky problem of dazzle from surface meltwater to yield the first ever continuous, year-round, altimetry measurements of sea-ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean. Artificial intelligence techniques have been applied to CryoSat data in the Arctic to distinguish, during the summer period, the melting …
The overarching goal of this project is to foster a closer collaboration between both the EO water cycle and hydrology community (especially those teams involved in developing novel high resolution EO data products) and the modelling community engaged in advancing “hyper resolution” modelling of the hydrological cycle at large scales (regional/continental). This project shall bring …
With this ITT ESA aims at exploring the full capacity of the latest EO satellite data, and in particular of the unprecedented wide variety of European satellite Earth observations, to better characterise and understand the drivers and complex underlaying processes leading to high impact multi-hazards with a focus on cascade and compound events as well …
This activity aims to establish a reference, quality-controlled, open database of SAR spatio-temporal signatures of complex real-world targets (either natural or man-made), with high diversity, to serve a wide number of applications with societal relevance, respecting FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reproducible) principles. Learn more about this Invitation To Tender on the esa-star Publication page.
The Carbon Science Cluster-RO is intended to support innovative scientific developments in the carbon research domain with special focus on the terrestrial carbon component as a direct response to the 1st Carbon Science Coordination meeting (June 2021) and as part of the ESA Carbon Science Cluster which aims at exploiting the full potential offered by …
Time to apply for the Earth Observation (EO) training course organised in collaboration between ESA and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): deadline for application is 15 July 2022. The course will take place on 19 – 23 September 2022 at the premises of the Andoya Space Centre (ASC) in Andenes, Norway. Intended for researchers, …
What is the mechanism linking the unexpected August 2021 rainfall on Greenland with snow and ice melt on the ice sheet? Researchers from GEUS (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland), leading the Pre-Operational Sentinel-3 snow and ice products (SICE) project, highlighted a feedback framework where, before the rain, warm atmospheric rivers triggered melting which exposed darker …
ESA’s Earth System Data Lab (ESDL) has been providing a virtual lab to access a wide array of Earth observations across space, time, and variables. It consists of two elements: a data cube and an interface to execute a variety of analyses on the data cube. The new recently launched follow-on project, called DeepESDL, …
Combining satellite measurements from Swarm, as well as from the earlier German Champ mission and Danish Ørsted mission, with a computer model of the geodynamo, a new type of magnetic wave, with a 7 year period, and a westward drift at phase speed of 1500km/year, has been mapped at the Earth’s core-mantle boundary. Such Magneto-Coriolis …
