Consistent Rice Information for Sustainable Policy (CRISP) aims to scale up advanced and cost-effective Earth Observation (EO) solutions to provide information on seasonal rice planted area, growing conditions, yield forecast, and production at harvest. To achieve this objective and to ensure that the designed solution meets the needs of users, a user-oriented approach will be …
The recent EO for agriculture under pressure event, which took place at ESA-ESRIN last week, brought together a notable number of participants, with 300 attendees in person from 43 different countries and more than 500 joining online connecting a diverse audience from various locations. The workshop explored the role of Earth Observation in addressing the …
Background There is a steadily growing pressure on agriculture and the entire food system to increase the global production, while at the same time ensuring healthy, nutrient-rich products and sustainability both in the terms of sufficient income for farmers and in terms of impact on the soil and other inputs, as well as on the …
Soils are being rediscovered from numerous stand viewpoints: biochemical, ecologic, technical, analytical, social, policy, economic, etc. The EU soil strategy for 2030 sets out a framework and concrete measures to protect and restore soils and ensure that they are used sustainably. It sets a vision and objectives to achieve healthy soils by 2050, with concrete …
The Agriculture Virtual Laboratory is a system that enables researchers to access, share, visualise, process and validate a variety of relevant data sets. Moreover, algorithms and workflows developed within the virtual laboratory may be published and shared, thus fostering collaboration at all stages of research. To this end, the AVL system integrates several components: a …
The goal of the EO-BALP project is to develop a cloud service platform for Earth Observation (EO) data access and processing and provide six different applications that will demonstrate the practical use of satellite data in different domains: Monitoring application of infrastructure and settlements with more than 60,000 inhabitants, which will help to detect and …
In the next decades, population growth is expected to amplify current pressures on critical resources such as fresh water or food, intensify the stress on land and marine ecosystems and increase environmental pollution and its impacts on health and biodiversity. Global warming and the increasing impacts of climate change, especially on most vulnerable populations, will …
The F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Cairo, Egypt in close collaboration with the National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS). In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based techniques for assessing vegetation dynamics with Earth Observation data. The training includes face-to-face lecturing and reading …
Luke joined the University of Salford in October 2022, having previously worked at the University of Southampton as a Senior Research Fellow (2021-2022), Senior Research Assistant (2018-2021), and Research Technician (2017-2018), whilst also completing a part-time PhD in Remote Sensing (2015-2021). Prior to this, he undertook an MSc in Applied Geographic Information Systems and Remote …
Over Africa, land use intensification is a subject of particular research interest. The African land system is undergoing rapid changes and novel approaches are needed to understand the drivers and consequences of land use intensification, as well as the dependency, vulnerability and resilience caused by climate change. It is paramount to understand Africa’s potential, vulnerability …
