The aim of the project is to develop a demonstrator “Crowds & Machines” (C&M) that provides strategic information concerning the impact of Covid-19 on food security and political (in)stability. Crowds & Machines enables decision makers to track the impact of Covid-19, design scenarios and act on those scenarios effectively. If successful, Crowds & Machines will …
It has become abundantly clear during the COVID-19 pandemic that environmental factors can be important in the emergence, spread, health impact, social political response, and socioeconomic recovery plan from Sars-Cov-2/COVID-19. Having tools available to study the impact of the environment for this pandemic and future pandemics is important to increase preparedness and curtail future societal …
Starting from the end of 2019, the virus spread all over the world began a pandemic that has led governments to enforce restrictions aimed at ensuring social distancing and, thus, decreasing Covid-19 spread. Italy has been the first country in Europe to be heavily impacted by this pandemic and to impose such restrictions. These restrictions …
The Rapid Action coronavirus Earth observation dashboard presents the results of the Joint cooperation between ESA and the European Commission on Covid 19 and EO. The platform demonstrates how the use of Earth observation data can help shed new light on societal and economic changes currently taking place owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Across all European countries and ESA Member States, the dashboard …
A Tri-Agency Dashboard by NASA, ESA, JAXA International collaboration among space agencies is central to the success of satellite Earth observations and data analysis. These partnerships foster more comprehensive measurements, robust datasets, and cost-effective missions. The tri-agency COVID-19 Dashboard is a concerted effort between the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), …
This free online course provides an introduction to remote sensing of the atmosphere. This includes topics such as climate change monitoring, assessing the atmospheric chemistry levels, monitoring air quality and supporting policy decisions, and the study of long-range atmospheric pollution transportation. The course will contain practical examples which you can follow along, as well as …
Would you like to join the challenge of designing and developing an indicator of the pandemic’s impacts on society, based on the wealth of satellite Earth Observations, geospatial information and additional data sources available on the RACE dashboard and the EuroDataCube? A new window of opportunity is going to be open starting 1 September. For …
While waiting for the upcoming news on the next RACE challenge, expected on 1 August, let’s take a look at the March challenge winner story. Challenge #1 question was: How does the pandemic affect shipping traffic and related air and water quality? Alessandro Cimbelli, the selected winner, a technologist at ISTAT (Italian institute of statistics), …
The project aims at determining changes in agricultural management patterns, particularly in crop harvest dates, as accurately as possible using Sentinel-1 radar data, and assessing whether linked to Covid-19.
After the first two monthly challenges – challenge #1 on how the pandemic affected the logistics/supply chain and related air and water quality, and challenge #2 on combining socio-economic indicators into a single impact metric – new flexibility will be added for the upcoming opportunities. Note down in your calendar the next window for submission …
