Vegetation types, extreme events and the carbon cycle
How is Gross Primary Production (GPP) affected by extreme climate events? Find it out in this video, and read more in the story and paper.
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A dedicated service for Ground Control Points and orthorectification
Precise geocoding/orthorectification/co-registration of EO images are pre-requisites for most further data use and applications. These operations require precise, high-quality Ground Control Points (GCPs). The Sentinel for 3D Ground Control Point (Sen3GCP) project, funded via the EO science for society Permanently Open Call mechanism, has been developing a GCPs hub, a dedicated service with several functionalities. …
Join us and slide into the cryosphere
Amongst all medal winners and a number of exciting athletes personal stories at the Beijing winter Olympics, now coming to an end, a prominent actor has raised to the podium: snow. Being it for the environmental impact of the almost entirely human-made snow of the ski and snowboarding courses or for the athletes struggling in …
Deep down temperature shifts give rise to eruptions
Research carried out within the 3D Earth project, where an international group of geoscientists joined forces to develop a state-of-the art global model of the lithosphere, gives us a better understanding of the natural processes that are occurring deep below our feet. This might bring the possibility of predicting eruptions – such as the astonishing …
Permafrost thaw: it’s complicated
A special collection of papers examining the physical, biogeochemical and ecosystem changes related to permafrost thaw and the associated impacts has been recently featured on the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment journal. One of the papers in the collection, describing how scientists from Europe and the US are working together to better track permafrost carbon …
Earth Energy Imbalance new estimates based on Ocean Heat Content from space
Over the last decades, greenhouse gases and aerosol concentrations have been increasing in the atmosphere, disrupting the balance in the Earth system between incoming and outgoing radiation fluxes. Part of the outgoing longwave radiation being blocked, the system has reemitted less energy towards space than it has received from the Sun. This imbalance at the …
Interoperability: sharing your application where the data sit
Availability of vast volumes of space-based EO data on cloud environments is a growing trend that enables the science and value-adding communities to perform processing conveniently and at large scale without going through the cumbersome burden of data downloading. Many cloud platforms provide immediate access to data preparation processors as well. The advanced processing environments, …
Career opportunities for internal research fellow in Earth System science
An internal research fellow opportunity is currently open for applicants who have recently completed, or are close to completing a PhD in physics, engineering or Earth system science with research experience and publication records. The applicant may select his/her preferred theme between: Ocean science Activities will focus on exploiting the latest advances in EO satellite …
Recommendations from the Inland Water monitoring community
The HYDROSPACE-GEOGLOWS 2021 workshop, organised by ESA in collaboration with CNES and the GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGloWS), took place in June 2021. It offered the opportunity to have a community discussion focused on future challenges of Inland Water monitoring and prediction, and future observational requirements. An overview of the state-of-the-art presented in the …
openEO platform: a truly federated and open environment for the EO community
Cloud-based digital platforms are increasingly becoming central for users to exploit the enormous amounts of Earth Observation (EO) data freely available today. A new initiative is now entering the EO platform landscape: the ESA funded openEO platform which was just released as the initial service offering to the public during the 2021 Phi Week. Earth …