Our planet’s population is growing rapidly, while climate change is causing more extreme weather events and changes in land-use. This creates a demand for better information services in policy-making, nature conservation, and food security. The European Commission’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) urges member states to embrace Earth Observation (EO) data as an integral part of …
Rural roads in Africa provide mobility to the poorest in society, enabling them to access economic opportunities and essential services such as health and education. A study on rural access estimated that over a billion people living in rural areas do not have reasonable access to an all-season road (World Bank, 2016). Latest data (World …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Victor Pellet. Terrestrial land surfaces are characterised by strong heterogeneities of, among other variables, soil texture, orography, land cover, snow, or Soil Moisture (SM). SM is of broad scientific interest due to its role in the Earth system: It impacts the partitioning of the incoming water and energy over …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Antoine Hochet. Global mean sea level (GMSL) is considered one of the leading indicators of global climate change as it reflects changes taking place in different components of the climate system. Present-day sea level rise and its acceleration, currently estimated by high-precision satellite altimetry measurements, are primarily …
The European Space Agency, in the context of the “FutureEO – Earth Observation Science for Society” Programme, and the World Climate Research Program are organising the Earth Energy Imbalance Assessment workshop, which will be hosted ad a hybrid event at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy, Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 May 2023. TARGET AUDIENCE …
Background High-resolution thermal Earth Observation (EO) has been identified as a major observational gap in our rapidly warming climate. Land-surface temperature is a key variable needed for understanding and adapting to climate variability, managing water resources sustainably for agricultural production, mitigating health stress during heatwaves, predicting droughts, monitoring coastal and inland waters and addressing natural …
The BICEP project is an innovative effort to better understand the biological carbon pump in the oceans using satellite data. By mapping the distribution of phytoplankton and other satellite-based products of different pools and fluxes of biological carbon in the surface ocean, the project seeks to improve our understanding of the role of the ocean …
In Q4 2022, ESA organised an open Information Day to address Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)/ Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) with presentations on the potential of EO in support to ecosystems restoration and conservation. The event was attended by around 60 CSOs/NGOs. The Consultation was complemented with a questionnaire circulated to participants and interested stakeholders to capture …
Following the public release of the beta version Green Transition Information Factory (GTIF) demonstrator for Austria one month ago, ESA and the Austrian BMK Ministry invited various Green Transition implementers for a GTIF user consultation workshop in Vienna on March 6th . More than 125 people from over 40 different organisations attended the event taking …
EO-FIN is one of the ESA best practice series of projects with a focus on the financial management sector. The main aim of the EO-FIN project is to understand the Financial Management sector’s requirements for geospatial information and what the current (including near future), capabilities of EO are to support the Financial Management sector’s needs …
