In April 2019 ESA awarded the Euro Data Cube (EDC) contract to a consortium of partners led by Sinergise. Rather than funding the development of a completely new service, the project was based on the integration of existing operational capabilities run by the project team, up to the creation of an EO Information Factory. Such …
ESA’s Φ-week fourth edition took place last 11-15 October, focusing on the New Space economy and its associated innovations. Recordings of the sessions from this hybrid formula event (virtual for the public and in person for invited speakers) are now publicly available. Find here below direct links to recordings of a selection of EO science …
Don’t miss the first VANTAGE coding challenge on The Urban Environment! VANTAGE is a new, online, cloud-based platform for analysis and exploitation of video from space. It includes a repository of high-definition videos captured from EO satellites, and a suite of analytical tools for extracting value and insight from the videos, plus support for user-defined …
Focusing on the New Space economy and innovations in Earth observation, ESA’s fourth Φ-week kicks off on Monday 11 October. A number of articles will be published on ESA web pages providing insights from the event. Not to miss any of them, you will find a dynamic, increasingly up-to-date list with links to the articles …
Cloud-based EO platforms are an integral element for facilitating the paradigm change in Earth Observation (“bringing the algorithm to the data” et al.). Digital EO platforms are “Enablers” as they can boost the productivity of scientific/commercial users by simplifying the commonly encountered complex EO workflows. Key enabling elements include for example powerful and intuitive analytical operators, …
The main theme of Φ-week 2021 is the NewSpace economy and associated innovations – a global trend of emerging investment and entrepreneurial philosophy that, together with key technological advancements, is enabling a private space industry largely driven by commercial motivations and will eventually evolve into EO Commercial Space. The event will highlight how the NewSpace …
Optimizing water resources is a real issue in some geographical area. Temperature have increased by 0,85°C on average between 1880 and 2012 and couldreach 4.8°C by 2100 compared to the period from 1986 to 2005, according to the last IPCC report. As a result, agriculture and viticulture are facing an increasing water scarcity at the …
ESA and the Open Geospatial Consortium have a long lasting collaboration and a common interest in innovation, data integration and developing standards. During last week’s 120th OGC meeting, co-located with Singapore Geospatial Festival 2021, OGC CEO Nadine Alameh and ESA’s Head of Strategy, Programme & Coordination Office Simonetta Cheli held a fireside chat to informally …
This special edition of the Sentinel Hub Custom Script Contest started on 3rd May 2021 and will end at midnight on 5th September 2021. The contest focuses on Africa and aims to demonstrate the power of a deep multi-temporal and multi-resolution data cube combined from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat. Additionally, the area of Dakar, Senegal, …
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), …
