Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19
Is the pandemic disrupting the growth and harvest of staple crops and the food supply chain? Read the full story.
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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 / …
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 Euro 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 …
Enhanced Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB) with Sentinel-2
Thanks to the work performed within the Sentinel coastal charting worldwide project, the effectiveness of Sentinel-2 data for bathymetry mapping has been proven. Read the full story.
Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19
While carbon dioxide is more abundant in the atmosphere and therefore more commonly associated with global warming, methane is around 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. Given its importance, Canadian company GHGSat have worked in collaboration with the Sentinel-5P team at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research to investigate hotspots of methane emissions …
Help EC to shape the next Green Deal call
In February 2020, ESA (Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes – EOP) and EC (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation – R&I) launched a joint Earth System Science Initiative, formalised with the signature of a working arrangement between both institutions. The initiative aims at joining forces to advance Earth System Science and provide a coordinated response to …
A collaboration on Atmosphere science just kicked-off
Trace gases are produced and destructed by physical, biological and chemical processes. This natural cycle has been perturbed over the past decades by the global population increase and by the related boost of anthropogenic activities. The composition of the atmosphere is undergoing major and rapid changes with significant impacts on a global scale, affecting the …