ESA announced the Space for a Green Future (S4GF) Accelerator in 2021, as one of the instruments to drive Europe’s innovation and use of space to respond to the global climate and sustainability crisis. In particular, the S4GF initiative is meant to accelerate the Green Transition towards a carbon-neutral, sustainable, and resilient society. Green Transition …
In the framework of the overall collaborative efforts with Africa, carried out with the strong involvement of the African Union Commission (AUC), for the first time in the ESRIN activities, two African Researchers have joined ESRIN in 2022: Dr. Wassim M. Baba and Dr Gladys Mosomtai. Wassim a post-doctoral researcher at the University Mohammed VI …
During July and August 2022, teams led by ESA and international partners NASA, JAXA, supported by EOX, RHEA, and Development Seed conducted two hands-on tutorial sessions on Geo-Storytelling and EO Data Science in the Cloud, on the occasion of the IGARSS 2022 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium) and the FOSS4G 2022 (Free Open Source Software for Geospatial). The …
New Service Provider added recently to the NoR Community The Service Provider CODE-DE offering exclusive data collections and a powerful infrastructure to enable the processing of the data in the Cloud is the latest Service Provider to be onboarded to the Network of Resources Community and accessible via the NoR portal. Actively providing access to …
The International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ is an international agreement among space agencies to support the immediate disaster response phase with satellite data and information. This is organized with Charter activations that are triggered by Authorized Users. Since its inception in 2000, it has supported 723 activations in 129 countries worldwide. In support …
While noting down your personal agenda at the upcoming Living Planet Symposium in Bonn – register by May 9 if you have not done it yet – don’t miss out on the chance to enjoy live demos and classroom training on the latest EO enabling technology: platforms, APIs, datacubes, machine learning, and apps. Look for …
You might have recently experienced the advantages of ordering a fresh meal-kit, composed out of your prerequisites, delivered at home: no search for ingredients effort, no raw leftovers, time and fuel savings. All you need to do is prepare and cook. This can be seen as a tasty analogy for the service developed within the …
Precise geocoding/orthorectification/co-registration of EO images are pre-requisites for most further data use and applications. These operations require precise, high-quality Ground Control Points (GCPs). The Sentinel for 3D Ground Control Point (Sen3GCP) project, funded via the EO science for society Permanently Open Call mechanism, has been developing a GCPs hub, a dedicated service with several functionalities. …
Cloud-based digital platforms are increasingly becoming central for users to exploit the enormous amounts of Earth Observation (EO) data freely available today. A new initiative is now entering the EO platform landscape: the ESA funded openEO platform which was just released as the initial service offering to the public during the 2021 Phi Week. Earth …
In September 2021, Sinergise and Polar View started a collaboration to expand the capabilities of the Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform (Polar TEP). ESA has sponsored a series of seven TEPs on different subjects to provide insight into how our oceans, atmosphere, land and ice operate and interact as part of an interconnected earth system by …
