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Invitation to Tender: “EO Africa R&D Facility”
The overarching goal of the EO AFRICA RD Facility is to foster an African-European RD collaboration enabling an active research community and creative innovation processes for a continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa. The RD Facility will identify African EO research challenges, launch research calls, leverage modern cloud computing development tools and support a …
Invitation to Tender: From Farm to Table. Supply Chain Management with Traceability and Verification
There are significant opportunities to be explored in the context of “tracking and tracing” of agriculture commodities, in particular by the convergence of traditional EO information services with emerging distributed data, platforms and IoT sensor networks. These new concepts allow to demonstrate where the produce has originated, how it has been handled, how well it …
Building Trust in the Digital Economy Workshop
Online workshop, July 29 2020 10:30-16:30 CET EO information services are undergoing a major change due to rapid technological developments. Cloud computing is now a central element of broadening the use of satellite imagery, such as Earth observation data (EO), for scientific, social and economic purposes. This shift to platform-based economy has implications concerning …
Digital Transformation with Blockchain: Issue Brief
In April 2019 ESA has released a White Paper on “Blockchain and Earth Observation” to define the key focus areas for the EO community to explore in the context of the Space 4.0 and future digital engineering for space missions. This publication is a second installation of the “Issue Briefs” by the ESA Blockchain / …
Invitation to Tender: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning / AI
Training of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms requires collecting large volumes of training and reference data to feed analytics and predictive models. However, there is often lack of the training data for machine learning techniques. The scarcity is caused, generally speaking, by reluctance to share data by third parties for confidentiality, privacy and other reasons (i.e. …
Invitation to Tender: “Glacier Science in the Alps”
Glaciers are retreating and thinning globally, partly in response to natural variability but also due to climate change. This affects runoff, critical in snow dependent regions, as well as global sea level, with the last of these estimated to contribute 27 ± 22 millimetres to global mean sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Glaciers in …
Invitation to Tender: “Mediterranean Regional Initiative – APPLICATIONS”
This activity is part of the ESA Regional Initiatives programme. Its objective is to support the implementation of regional priorities in the Mediterranean region by: i) developing and delivering a customized set of EO based products that fully exploit the large volumes of EO data from the Sentinel missions and other EO missions and ii) …
Euro Data Cube custom script contest: the winner is…
Congratulations to Henrik Fisser, whose Truck detection – Sensing trade from space has been awarded the first prize for the European Data Cube COVID-19 edition of the custom script contest. The idea exploits reflectance patterns of long moving vehicles, such as trucks, in Sentinel-2 images. While trucks are essentially too small to be recognised as …
Better decisions in Development Assistance with EO
Satellite Earth Observation (EO) provides a wide range of different types of environmental information that are global, comprehensive, accurate, repeatable and timely, and that are key to the effective planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Development Assistance activities. Furthermore, the extraordinary circumstances and unprecedented impact that COVID-19 is having on all of our living and …