Tag: applications
SDG 15.2.1 EO Pathfinder – EO for Sustainable Forest Management
Prime company: IABG MBH (DE)The SDG Pathfinder project – EO for Sustainable Forest Management will develop and showcase in partnership with the custodian agency FAO innovative EO approaches to produce indicators on the sustainable management of natural, semi-natural and planted forests. It will benefit from improved data availability to support the SDG 15 Life on Land with the SDG …
PEOPLE – Ecosystem Restoration
Prime company: HATFIELD CONSULTANTS (CA)The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration focus on the restoration of ecosystems on a large scale to achieve the United Nations sustainable development agenda in 2030. The PEOPLE Ecosystem Restoration project will develop innovative products and indicators determining and monitoring processes, both degradation and/or recovery. In several pilot sides in various ecosystems like boreal peatland …
Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting Workshop (EO4EA 2022)
The 2022 Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA 2022) is organized by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Environmental-Economic Account section of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting initiative of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO EO4EA). Background The System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) provides …
Earth Observation Training Data Lab (EO-TDL)
Prime company: EARTHPULSE SPAIN, SL (ES)One of the most limiting factors of ML and AI for EO applications is the scarcity of suitable and accessible training datasets. Currently, the main barrier is that the generation of such datasets is a time consuming and expensive process. Typically access to high quality training datasets is very restricted; in some cases, domain experts …
2021 WorldCover product
One year ago, on 20 October 2021, the new baseline global land cover product at 10 m resolution, exploiting Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, showing 11 land cover classes with unprecedented detail, was launched. Last 28 October 2022, 9 months from the last data take, the global product with data from year 2021 was released. Read …
DTUP – Digital Twin Urban Pilot
Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)The urban environment we live in is more and more complex. Interrelations and dependencies as well as the effects of changes are becoming increasingly difficult to assess. In this framework, the Digital Twin Urban Pilot (DTUP) concept is of key importance: It allows to create an image of the reality on which one can effectively …
EO AfRIca ExplorerS – ARIES
Prime company: VISTA GEOWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FERNERKUNDUNG GMBH (DE)Within “ARIES” experimental EO analysis techniques will be developed and validated, addressing water resources management and food security matters. Those techniques,algorithms and prototype solutions will leverage a new generation of upcoming operational EO data: thermal and hyperspectral. In addition to established EO resources, especially Copernicus driven Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3, the intended ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data …
ESA invites CSOs / NGOs to an Open Information and Consultation Day on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites all civil society organisations (CSOs) / non governmental organisation (NGOs) with an environmental focus to a knowledge-sharing webinar to discuss the potential of Earth Observation (EO) data exploitation for ecosystem conservation and restoration. The webinar is part of an Open Consultation process with CSOs / NGOs. This is an …
EO for Ecosystem Accounting workshop: submit your abstract!
Abstract submission is now open (12 Jul – 12 Sep) for the upcoming online workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting 2022, to take place in the afternoons (13:00 – 17:00 CET Rome time, 07:00 – 11:00 NY time) from 28 Nov to 1 Dec. The workshop will feature invited talks, open sessions with oral …