The animation above gives a visual impression of Mediterranean temperature dynamics during the last 9 years by displaying daily Medspiration L4 products of 2 km resolution SSTfnd from 30 August 2010 to 25 May 2019. Medspiration is an ESA- funded project, started in 2004, aimed at producing a robust and reliable set of Sea Surface …
Decision-makers, planners and scientists can easily find in the Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) resources, including multi-source data and visualisation/analytics tools, that help them creating and maintaining sustainable urban environments in major cities but also in smaller, rural areas. One of the recent add-ons to the rich database is the World Settlement Footprint 2015 (WSF-2015), …
The Earth Observation (EO) recent missions released the first video products (full-colour video of life on Earth) e.g. Constellation like Earth-i is equipped with an Ultra High Definition (UHD) camera that captures high-resolution images for any location on Earth and also films up to two minutes of video at a time as it passes over …
The Network of Resources (NoR) call is linked to the Open Science Earth Observation (OSEO) initiative and offers research, development or pre-commercial users which are of scientific or a value adding nature the opportunity to exploit EO data collocated in a cloud environment using Resource Tier and Platform Tier Services. The call is open to users from …
Cloud computing is currently the central element of ESA’s Earth Observation (EO) innovation concept which aims at the increased integration and accessibility of EO data for a much broader use for scientific, social and economic purposes. Rapid ICT developments are enabling a step-change in generation of EO-based information services. Going forward, in order to take …
We are pleased to announce the opening of a new Invitation to Tender: the procurement will contribute to the new ESA Black Sea and Danube Regional Initiative, with the ultimate goal of a coordinated approach to advance Earth Observation based science, applications and data exploitation infrastructures serving the specific needs of the Black Sea and …
Marking the start of a full week rich of scientific sessions, agoras, exhibits and events, with over 4000 participants from 80 different countries, the Living Planet Symposium opening session featured the following agenda: 09:00 Opening 09:05 Welcome by Italian Officials 09:20 Welcome by ESA Director General, Johann-Dietrich Wörner 09:30 Italy and Earth observation, Italian Space …
The Living Planet Symposium, regularly held every three years, is amongst the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world. The 2019 edition focuses on how Earth Observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth Observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector …
The Sentinel Hub project started in 2016 as one of the ESA PECS-funded activities with the objective of making Sentinel-2 data accessible in an easier manner. Now, three years later, Sentinel Hub is widely used, and serves not only Sentinel-2 but also data from numerous other EO satellite missions. It is used not just by …
White paper defining the key potential focus areas for the adoption of blockchain in the EO community. Released in April 2019.
