Data from Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission can help to gain a better understanding of the Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea, a hotspot for climate change. Unfortunately, this critical area is strongly affected by Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and systematic biases due to the coast contamination (also called Land-Sea …
An online environment has been developed in the last few years for oceanographers to discover the existence of all available and co-located EO and related model/in-situ datasets and to handle them jointly in a convenient, flexible and intuitive way. The current version includes more than 350 datasets and is mostly focused on the Agulhas region. …
See how Earth Observation supports water resource managers worldwide in the video produced by the EO4SD Water Resources team, and learn more about ESA initiatives for safeguarding water in this article. Watch the video in English: in French: and in Spanish:
ESA has launched a tender, Sen4CAP, which will provide us useful knowledge and further possibilities on how we use Sentinel data in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy
Last 16th January, an initial exploratory meeting took place at ESRIN to start a discussion on EO and Official Development Assistance (ODA) with first interested national aid agencies from across Europe, together with representatives from the national space agencies/government departments, the OECD and DG-DEVCO. To date, the activities of ESA in the development aid area …
The World Bank organised the second edition of the Geospatial Day event at the World Bank premises in Washington DC from 6 to 7 December, 2017. An event that aims at further raising awareness amongst Bank consultants and staff of the enabling power of geospatial information and technology and of how it can be applied to their …
Stakeholders from the Baltic region met at a workshop held in Helsinki in March 2017. The following elements were agreed as priority interests to be addressed by ESA funded projects: Platform services and processing resources: Reliable, robust regional data access and processing capabilities for all EO data, including rapid access to data Platform as a …
