How can we measure air quality? How can we observe remote places with no safety risk? How do we monitor earthquakes and derive tsunami alerts? How can we join forces and give help during an emergency via a mapathon? These are only a few of the questions raised and discussed during the School Labs that …
The purpose of this procurement is to place one contract for the larger-scale exploitation activities of EO-based information products and services that respond to geospatial information requirements in the thematic domain of Forest Management associated with flagship developments being carried out by the main International Financing Institutions (IFIs). The activities shall convincingly demonstrate that EO-based …
A series of violent and harmful explosions occurred on 3 July afternoon at Stromboli volcano, causing one dead. Glowing hot bombs and lapilli were ejected from all over the summit area and produced an eruption column that rose approx. 3-5 km. A series of fires were caused by the hot debris falling back in the …
Exploitation Platforms are a central element of ESA’s Earth Observation (EO) Innovation Europe concept, which aims at the integration of EO data and information for a much broader use, for scientific, social and economic purposes, as well as for the generation of new commercial applications and services. The EO Network of Resources (NoR) initiative promotes …
The animation above gives a visual impression of Mediterranean temperature dynamics during the last 9 years by displaying daily Medspiration L4 products of 2 km resolution SSTfnd from 30 August 2010 to 25 May 2019. Medspiration is an ESA- funded project, started in 2004, aimed at producing a robust and reliable set of Sea Surface …
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 …
New research published in Geophysical Research Letters investigates in-situ ionospheric plasma measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellites coincident with ground-based optical measurements of the phenomenon known as “Steve”. The authors show that Steve is consistently associated with narrow ionospheric flow channels called subauroral ion drifts (SAID). These observations are unusually intense with faster …
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 …
