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. ESA is funding the definition of a common …
The 2019 Φ-week is at starting blocks and a wealth of activities are about to start this afternoon: scientific talks, side events, bootcamp, exhibit and poster sessions. In order to get the most out of this exciting experience, check-out the overall programme below, stay tuned on @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE twitter account for additional insights and have a …
A one day workshop organized at the occasion of the 2019 ESA Ф-Week on September 12 will be dedicated to the design of the new set of use cases on the crossover of Earth Observation, blockchain/DLT and IoT which were identified in ESA White Paper as suitable for testing the feasibility and added value of …
On behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), we are pleased to invite you to participate in the Call for Research Proposals of the Living Planet Fellowship 2019. The main objective of this initiative is to support young researchers who hold a doctoral degree and would like to initiate a scientific career in the context …
The ESA Phi Week is starting next week: https://phiweek.esa.int/ We want to hear about your ideas & opinions already now – Please go to Slido.com and enter the event code for two of the main thematic blocks: AI4EO: #phiweek-AI4EO Research Infrastructures: #phiweek-RINFRA EoNext: #phiweek-EONext
It is estimated that over 70% of global freshwater is consumed by irrigation. Irrigated land comprises 1/5 of the worlds cultivated area and supplies 2/5 of the worlds food. Climate change and population growth are expected to further increase the irrigation demand pushing more pressure on available freshwater for food production, and many areas which …
ESA is opening a re-run of the successful Massive Open Online Course ‘Echoes in Space – An Introduction to Radar Remote Sensing’. The re-run will be accessible free of charge on the eLearning platform EO College (https://eo-college.org), from 16th September 2019 for a period of 12 months. Registration is possible anytime during the duration of …
Living Planet Fellow Bas Altena from University of Oslo, gave a keynote talk during the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019 that took place between 16.06-2019-22.06.2019 in Obergurgl (Austria). This keynote revisited the techniques for observing the ice of our planet with daily cubesat imagery, and focused on how this new observational capacity allows …
Chișinău is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova and the country’s main industrial and commercial centre and transportation hub. While still being the least urbanised European country with over 55% of the population residing in rural areas (as of 2014), particularly Chișinău is expected to be faced with a strong inflow …
Recent research by ESA Living Planet Fellow Marco Bellacicco in the frame of project PHYSIOGLOB gives new insights on how the choice of the regression method influences the derived bio-optical relationships in optical and satellite oceanographic studies. The authors compare the results obtained with diverse regression methods on the same bio-optical data set and quantify …
