A strong earthquake of Mw 7.1 struck southern California, United States on July 6, 2019 preceded by another earthquake of Mw 6.4 on July 4. This was the strongest earthquake in California since the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake. The earthquake sequence took place on a remote and sparsely inhabited area of California, limiting …
Decision-makers, planners and scientists can easily find in the Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) resources, including multi-source data and visualisation/analytics tools, that help them creating and maintaining sustainable urban environments in major cities but also in smaller, rural areas. One of the recent add-ons to the rich database is the World Settlement Footprint 2015 (WSF-2015), …
The Earth Observation (EO) recent missions released the first video products (full-colour video of life on Earth) e.g. Constellation like Earth-i is equipped with an Ultra High Definition (UHD) camera that captures high-resolution images for any location on Earth and also films up to two minutes of video at a time as it passes over …
The Network of Resources (NoR) call is linked to the Open Science Earth Observation (OSEO) initiative and offers research, development or pre-commercial users which are of scientific or a value adding nature the opportunity to exploit EO data collocated in a cloud environment using Resource Tier and Platform Tier Services. The call is open to users from …
Cloud computing is currently the central element of ESA’s Earth Observation (EO) innovation concept which aims at the increased integration and accessibility of EO data for a much broader use for scientific, social and economic purposes. Rapid ICT developments are enabling a step-change in generation of EO-based information services. Going forward, in order to take …
The “European Data Cube Facility” service contract was Kicked-off on April 23 for a project duration of 3 years, focusing not just on development of innovative product, but mostly on an operational service to be used by millions of people around the world. An initial portfolio of services will be available after 6 months and …
The Sentinel Hub project started in 2016 as one of the ESA PECS-funded activities with the objective of making Sentinel-2 data accessible in an easier manner. Now, three years later, Sentinel Hub is widely used, and serves not only Sentinel-2 but also data from numerous other EO satellite missions. It is used not just by …
Within ESA’s Earth Observation Envelope Program the Network of Resources aims to stimulate the uptake of platform services by science and commercial users. Cloud providers hosting Earth Observation Data are invited to offer promotional free resources for research use that ESA will promote to its institutional and industrial research network of projects to test out …
The Open Science Earth Observation (OSEO) call aims to foster scientific and applications uptake of full archives of EO data, by offering third party services which exploit state of the art ICT. ESA is pleased to announce the opening of the new EOX Cloud Free Sentinel-2 map service as a 3rd-party service added to the …
The next Living Planet Symposium (LPS19) will take place in Milan, Italy, on 13–17 May 2019. Abstracts can be now submitted on lps19.esa.int/abstracts until 11 November 2018 (23:59 CEST). Navigate through the session list and descriptions and carefully check out guidelines for submitting an abstract.
