Blockchain and Earth Observation – 2019
White paper defining the key potential focus areas for the adoption of blockchain in the EO community. Released in April 2019.
Tag: applications
Blockchain and Earth Observation: a white paper
Blockchain technology is often referred to as having a revolutionary potential for transforming the future of global markets. The industry leaders and policymakers across different sectors of the economy, and in public policy, have launched many initiatives (including dedicated innovation hubs) to investigate the potential of blockchain for financial and non-financial applications. Areas of interest …
Flood disaster risk financing: e-Drift services
The demand The frequency and impact of disasters continues to rise, calling for effective disaster risk management and innovative risk financing solutions. Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) can increase the ability of national and local governments, homeowners, businesses, agricultural producers, and low-income populations to respond more quickly and resiliently to disasters by strengthening public financial management …
SOLFEO – Spaceborne Observations over Latin America For Emission Optimization applications
Prime company: KNMI (NL)South America hosts the Amazon rain forest, the largest source of natural hydrocarbons (HC) emitted into the atmosphere. However, the forest undergoes continuous pressure due to increasing needs for pasture and agricultural land. Next to this, large urban centers of South America face acute air quality problems. In this tense situation, it is important to …
SaTellite-based Run-off Evaluation And Mapping (STREAM)
Prime company: CNR – INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT (IREA) (IT)The STREAM Project (SaTellite based Runoff Evaluation And Mapping), led by CNR-IRPI with the participation of the Institute of Geodesy (GIS) at University of Stuttgart, aimed at developing innovative methods able to maximize the recovery of information on runoff contained in current satellite observations of climatic and environmental variables (i.e., precipitation, soil moisture, terrestrial water …
Snow avalanche detection and monitoring with Sentinel-1
Incomplete avalanche activity datasets introduce uncertainty to avalanche forecasting Roughly 150-250 people die each year in avalanche accidents. Infrastructure loss and costs from evacuations and road closures and the use of active and permanent mitigation measures amount to large economic costs. Regional avalanche forecasting is an active mitigation measure that informs the public of …
Infrastructures planning and monitoring user consultation conference 2019
February 26, 2019 - February 27, 2019
ESA-ESRIN,
Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
During the past decades infrastructures had to meet rapidly increasing users’ needs in terms of construction of new buildings, transportation, energy, water supply, sewer system and information networks. In this context, Earth Observation (EO) represents an opportunity for innovative science, applications and information services to face some of the issues related to such increase as …
World ocean circulation user consultation meeting 2019
February 21, 2019 - February 22, 2019
ESA-ESRIN,
Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy
The large variety of EO data from instruments in orbit, used in synergy, constitute a wealth of information to advance our understanding and estimation of the upper layer of the World Ocean Circulation. Accurate knowledge of the latter at all time and space scales is of growing importance to many scientific, operational and commercial applications. This event …
A new method for unsupervised update of land cover maps
The possibility to operationally monitor the Earth’s land cover (changes) at high temporal resolution is nowadays given by EO multispectral dense time series available at global level, in particular Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data. Nonetheless, keeping thematic maps regularly updated is a complex and time consuming task. Large efforts have been devoted to date in …
Delay-Doppler Altimetry Studio
Prime company: ISARDSAT LTD. (GB)This project aims at providing to the scientific community the means to understand and use the low levels of Altimetry data and how these data are processed, by providing them with a Fully Adaptable and Configureable Delay Doppler Processor (DDP) and a friendly user interface (the Tool, to help them interacting with the DDP. The …