The ESA Ocean Science Cluster is an emerging concept whose objective is to promote collaborative research among the different projects and scientific activities ESA has been investing in the recent years, with the objective to enhance our observing capability and scientific understanding of the oceans and coastal regions. This new concept is to be supported …
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 …
Are you a European or Canadian provider of Earth Observation services? Please dedicate 5-7 mins of your time to provide input to a new survey aimed at gaining baseline understanding of EO trends in development finance. Your contribution would be much appreciated! Find out more in the full announcement and access the survey.
Following the successful 1st call, in which 15 projects were selected, the ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility – in collaboration with the AUC- has launched the second call for research proposals to support African–European collaborative efforts. The selected projects will develop innovative, open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions to African challenges by leveraging …
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 …
Summer 2022 in Northern Italy has been extremely dry, as high resolution (1 km) soil moisture maps based on Sentinel-1 show. This is particularly clear when comparing to a “normal” year such as 2020. Read the full story.
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites all civil society organisations (CSOs) / non governmental organisation (NGOs) with an environmental focus to a knowledge-sharing webinar to discuss the potential of Earth Observation (EO) data exploitation for ecosystem conservation and restoration. The webinar is part of an Open Consultation process with CSOs / NGOs. This is an …
A paper published in Nature describes a new approach for removing the pesky problem of dazzle from surface meltwater to yield the first ever continuous, year-round, altimetry measurements of sea-ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean. Artificial intelligence techniques have been applied to CryoSat data in the Arctic to distinguish, during the summer period, the melting …
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 …
Bolivia became the world’s top importer of mercury since 2019, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), which tracks global trade flows. The reason for that sits behind the booming small-scale artisanal gold mining industry, associated with the global gold price rise in recent years. The use of mercury in gold mining has severe …
