Vegetation types, extreme events and the carbon cycle
How is Gross Primary Production (GPP) affected by extreme climate events? Find it out in this video, and read more in the story and paper.
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FFSAR – Coastal Fully Focused SAR Altimetry and Innovative River Level Gauges for Coastal Monitoring
Prime company: SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD. (GB)Fully Focused (FF) SAR Coastal [FFSAR-Coastal] is a project funded by ESA to apply the Fully Focused SAR altimetry processor on Sentinel-3 data and evaluate its potential to make a significant new contribution to coastal and estuarine monitoring systems, when coupled with innovative water level gauges for validation. Two different environments have been considered: The …
WORLD EMISSION
Prime company: GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA (ES)Pollutant and greenhouse gas emission inventories provide essential information for policy makers, governments and subsidiary bodies to evaluate progress towards emission abatement measures, and decide on future strategies. Inventories use different methodologies between countries, and have large uncertainties related to both activity data and emission factors. The use of satellite data, notably the imagery of …
IMITATE – Introducing Machine-learning Into Targeted Analysis for Terrestrial Ecosystems
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)The proposed IMITATE project aims to address the following questions: How well can machine learning methods emulate physical process-based land surface models, focused over Europe? Can explainable AI techniques provide new insights into process understanding when combining land surface models and Earth Observation data Are the learnt relationships between the modeled inputs and outputs consistent …
Earth Observation Info Days 2022
March 9, 2022 - March 10, 2022
Introduction and Objectives The European Space Agency, ESA, is organising the EO Info Days to introduce activities in FutureEO-1 Block 4 “EO Science for Society”, Global Development Assistance (GDA), and Climate Change Initiative Opportunities (CCI+) programmes. The main goals of these Info Days will be to present the upcoming opportunities for European entities to participate …
High-resolution methane mapping with hyper and multispectral data (HiResCH4)
Prime company: UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA (ES)The detection and repair of methane leaks from fossil fuel production activities have been identified as a key climate change mitigation strategy. In the last years, a number of optical satellite missions with a spatial resolution of 30-m or better have shown potential for the detection of strong methane plumes emitted by point sources, which …
Biodiversity in the Open Ocean: Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling (BOOMS)
Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)Increasing pressure due to anthropogenic drivers is leading to a reduction of global biodiversity and its associated benefits at the planetary scale. In open ocean (seafloor depth greater than 200 m) the most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss is fishing and extraction of seafood, with a lesser but rapidly increasing importance of climate change, …
Biodiversity of the Coastal Ocean: Monitoring with Earth observation (BiCOME)
Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)Increasing pressure on nature due to anthropogenic drivers is leading to a reduction of global biodiversity and its associated benefits at the planetary scale. In coastal environments, the most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss are fishing, land and sea use, climate change and pollution. These drivers have accelerated in the last 50 years, and …
Deep down temperature shifts give rise to eruptions
Research carried out within the 3D Earth project, where an international group of geoscientists joined forces to develop a state-of-the art global model of the lithosphere, gives us a better understanding of the natural processes that are occurring deep below our feet. This might bring the possibility of predicting eruptions – such as the astonishing …
Tim Trent
Tim is currently a research fellow working within the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) based at the University of Leicester. In addition to his research role, he also co-chairs the international GEWEX Water Vapour Assessment (G-VAP) working group. Output from this group features in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …