Categories: Scientists, Virtual Labs, Toolboxes
Help EC to shape the next Green Deal call
In February 2020, ESA (Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes – EOP) and EC (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation – R&I) launched a joint Earth System Science Initiative, formalised with the signature of a working arrangement between both institutions. The initiative aims at joining forces to advance Earth System Science and provide a coordinated response to …
Is the global COVID-19-related drop in NO2 pollution coming to an end?
All over the world, countries have – to a greater or lesser extent – taken measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. In particular, people movements have been restricted worldwide. The decrease in traffic and industrial activity, the two main sources of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in urban areas, led to unprecedented decreases in NO2 …
Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Greenland Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat
The CryoTEMPO-EOLIS (Elevation Over Land Ice from Swath) product, now operationally available at on the CryoSat Dissemination Server, exploits CryoSat’s SARIn mode and the novel Swath processing technique to deliver increased spatial and temporal coverage of time-dependent elevation over land ice, a critical metric for tracking ice mass trends. This is the outcome of a …
20-year time-series of global primary production in the oceans
In a recent paper published in Remote Sensing, scientists used data from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative to study the long-term patterns of primary production and its interannual variability. Combining long-term satellite data with in situ measurements, they assessed global annual primary productivity from 1998-2018. Being able to observe and quantify primary production over …
Invitation to Tender: “Atmosphere Virtual Lab”
This activity responds to the continued need for generic data access, harmonization and visualization tools in the atmospheric domain and beyond. This need is also reinforced by recommendations from the ESA Atmospheric Science Conference – ATMOS-2018 and shall be conceived as a project to develop tools in response to end-user requirements. The current Atmospheric Toolbox …
Over 500K downloads for ESA’s SNAP toolbox
More than 500.000 downloads in five years have taken place for the ESA Sentinel Applications Platform (SNAP for short), a free and open toolbox for processing data products from numerous satellite missions such as the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3, as well as ESA’s SMOS mission, and ‘Third Party Missions’. Read more about it …
High resolution ET for water management from S2 and S3 combined with AI
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.
Towards fully automated land cover classification
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. …
New rainfall products available
Accurate measurement of precipitation over the relevant space and time scales is a challenge. The SMOS+RAINFALL project has the objective to ingest satellite soil moisture information derived from ASCAT, SMOS and SMAP into the latest state-of-the-art satellite precipitation products like those derived from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) to enhance rainfall observation accuracy over land. Access the datasets generated by …