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EO Clinic: COVID-19 Impact on Air Quality in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova
Prime company: EVERIS AEROESPACIAL Y DEFENSA S.L.U (ES)EO Clinic support requested by: UNDP Ukraine Office, UNDP Moldova Office Requesting activity: Collaborative UNDP platform response to COVID-19 Requesting activity type: Technical Assistance (TA) EO Clinic relevant Thematic Groups: TG2 (Climate Change), TG8 (Transport), TG9 (Urban), TG11 (Non-EO Information and Analytics) Work Order number: EOC0009 Work Order status: Completed Work Order start: 2020 Jul …
EO Clinic: COVID-19 Impact on Agricultural Practices in Moldova
Prime company: E-GEOS (IT)EO Clinic support requested by: UNDP Moldova Office Requesting activity: Collaborative UNDP platform response to COVID-19 Requesting activity type: Technical Assistance (TA) EO Clinic relevant Thematic Groups: TG1 (Agriculture), TG11 (Non-EO Information and Analytics) Work Order number: EOC0007 Work Order status: Completed Work Order start: 2020 May 28 Work Order end: 2020 Sep 18 Background …
PRISMA + S5P demonstration for COVID-19 studies
Prime company: GRASP-SAS (FR)Recent climate remote study showed essential effect of COVID-19 on trace gases emissions, in particular, of NO2 and CO2. In Europe, Italy was one of the first countries to be infected by the COVID-19 virus, starting in the beginning of February 2020, and numbers soaring up to over 100,000 infections and 20,000 deaths by mid-April. …
Impact study of COVID-19 lockdown measures on air quality and climate (ICOVAC)
Prime company: BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE AERONOMY (BIRA-IASB) (BE)The global crisis due to the pandemic spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 that the humanity is facing since early 2020 led to unprecedented measures taken by different governments worldwide in order to limit as much as possible the number of impacted persons. Those measures include social distancing, banning of people gathering and travels, encouragement for …
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.
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 …
Is the global COVID-19-related drop in NO2 pollution coming to an end?
All over the world, countries have – to a greater or lesser extent – taken measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. In particular, people movements have been restricted worldwide. The decrease in traffic and industrial activity, the two main sources of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in urban areas, led to unprecedented decreases in NO2 …
SpaceApps COVID-19 challenge: call for European experts
Coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists are invited to participate in a virtual hackathon on May 30-31 dedicated to putting open data to work in developing solutions to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are contributing unique capabilities ranging from …
Upscaling Euro Data Cube COVID-19 script contest winners ideas to feature on the European dashboard
In just a few weeks we have already received some great ideas and see that a large community can contribute significantly with this tool – a BIG THANKS for that !!! The European Space Agency (ESA), in coordination with the European Commission, has decided to offer an additional opportunity for some selected ideas by European …