Tag: climate
EO tools to power up the Green Transition
ESA announced the Space for a Green Future (S4GF) Accelerator in 2021, as one of the instruments to drive Europe’s innovation and use of space to respond to the global climate and sustainability crisis. In particular, the S4GF initiative is meant to accelerate the Green Transition towards a carbon-neutral, sustainable, and resilient society. Green Transition …
EO AFRICA Water Stress and Climate Indices for Africa – WASCIA
Prime company: TELESPAZIO VEGA UK LIMITED (GB)‘Water Stress and Climate Indices for Africa’ (WaSCIA) is an ESA funded project that aims to deliver high-quality Water Stress and Climate Indices through an easy-to-use web interface to help the management of drought and water stress in Africa. The project is led by Telespazio UK with the partnership of RSS-Hydro, Telespazio France, AGRHYMET (Centre Regional de Formation et d’Application en Agrométéorologie …
EO Africa F2F Training #4: Mapping and Performance Monitoring of Agroecosystems from Space
October 18, 2022 - October 22, 2022
The 4th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Kigali, Rwanda in close collaboration with the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) 2022. The course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for getting started on monitoring agroecosystems (croplands + rangelands) with satellite EO …
Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration: Open Information and Consultation Day for CSOs/NGOs
October 14, 2022 @ 09:30 - 12:30 UTC+2
Introduction and Objectives The Sixth IPCC Assessment Report highlighted that the rise in weather and climate extremes has led to some irreversible impacts as natural and human systems are being pushed beyond their ability to adapt. Restoration of degraded ecosystems is key to mitigate the impacts of climate change, as healthy and resilient ecosystems are …
Two African Research Fellows joined ESRIN in 2022
In the framework of the overall collaborative efforts with Africa, carried out with the strong involvement of the African Union Commission (AUC), for the first time in the ESRIN activities, two African Researchers have joined ESRIN in 2022: Dr. Wassim M. Baba and Dr Gladys Mosomtai. Wassim a post-doctoral researcher at the University Mohammed VI …
HYPER-CROP – HYPER-RESOLUTION CROP YIELD ESTIMATES AND EXTREME EVENTS CROPS SHOCKS MONITORING BY INTEGRATING MULTIPLE SATELLITE DATA AND MONITORING
Prime company: UNIV PADOVA (IT)The project will develop an EO-service for Hyper-resolution crop yield estimates and extreme events crops shocks monitoring by integrating multiple SATellite data and modeling, able to support farmers precision agriculture.This will be based on a dynamic calibration/validation system which takes advantage of the high spatial resolution (5-8m) of combined harvesters’ crop yield information. The system …
Zooming in on drought from space
Summer 2022 in Northern Italy has been extremely dry, as high resolution (1 km) soil moisture maps based on Sentinel-1 show. This is particularly clear when comparing to a “normal” year such as 2020. Read the full story.
EOAFRICA Webinar: Hyper-Temporal Mapping of Agro-Ecological Systems
August 25, 2022 @ 14:00 - 15:30 UTC+2
This webinar introduces participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to map agro-ecological systems at region to country levels (benchmark mapping) for subsequent monitoring using ‘future’ EO-derived imagery. ‘Past’ hyper-temporal (HT) time-space NDVI-based data-cubes will be studied to create an agro-environmental stratification that relates to land features like terrain, climate, land cover (green vegetation) …
MethaneCAMP
Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)Climate change is one of the greatest societal challenges of the 21st century. The dominant source of global warming is the increase of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the Earth`s atmosphere. atmosphere. The two most important of those species are carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). Together they account for ~82% of the anthropogenic radiative forcing. …