The thin ozone layer positioned in stratosphere is crucial for the survival of life on Earth. This stratospheric ozone layer shields the Earth from most of the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. In the late 1970s, scientists found out that humanity was creating a hole in this protective ozone shield. In 1985, the Vienna Convention for …
This special edition of the Sentinel Hub Custom Script Contest started on 3rd May 2021 and will end at midnight on 5th September 2021. The contest focuses on Africa and aims to demonstrate the power of a deep multi-temporal and multi-resolution data cube combined from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat. Additionally, the area of Dakar, Senegal, …
Would you like to join the challenge of designing and developing an indicator of the pandemic’s impacts on society, based on the wealth of satellite Earth Observations, geospatial information and additional data sources available on the RACE dashboard and the EuroDataCube? A new window of opportunity is going to be open starting 1 September. For …
INTRODUCTION The African Research Fellowship (ARF) Coordinated by ESA aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master degree with extensive research experience) to carry out Earth Observation (EO) R&D activities relevant for the EO AFRICA Initiative. The African Research Fellows shall maximise the use of EO data in synergy with in-situ and state-of-the-art modelling approaches, …
Estimating sea ice thickness is essential to monitor the effects of long-term climatic change and understand their consequences for Arctic ecosystems. The continued sea ice loss – widely observed through EO data since 1979 – is bringing to an increased Arctic maritime activity for which timely forecasts of ice conditions are required too, to ensure …
Develop and validate novel methods for Sea State retrieval from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath (IWS) products. Produce experimental S-1 IWS Sea State products and demonstrate their value for coastal science, operational wave models, and selected test areas including the marginal ice zone in the Arctic. Demonstrate multi-mission EO synergies in the Mediterranean utilising ocean geophysical …
Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) represents an effective risk management option, able to complement more traditional Disaster Risk Reduction measures by offering a lean way to unlock resources for a fast and prompt reaction when a disaster occurs. This is particularly important when sovereign risk is considered in countries where the magnitude of flood events often …
This ITT will implement the new EO information developments that respond directly to Bank operations requirements for geospatial information in the thematic sector of Fragility, Conflict, and Security. An Agile development approach is to be adopted consisting of three sequential development cycles each of 6 months duration to accommodate evolving requirements for new geo-information to …
While waiting for the upcoming news on the next RACE challenge, expected on 1 August, let’s take a look at the March challenge winner story. Challenge #1 question was: How does the pandemic affect shipping traffic and related air and water quality? Alessandro Cimbelli, the selected winner, a technologist at ISTAT (Italian institute of statistics), …
This ITT will define, design and implement a Monitoring Evaluation (ME) system for assessing the impact of both the ESA Global Development Assistance (GDA) programme, and the activities of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank carried out in support of GDA under the joint initiative of Space for International Development Assistance – SpaceforIDA. The …
