This activity is part of the ESA Regional Initiatives programme. Its objective is to support the implementation of regional priorities in the Mediterranean region by i) developing and delivering a customized set of EO based products that fully exploit the large volumes of EO data from the Sentinel missions and other EO missions and ii) …
Objective of this work is to assess time-space variability of terrestrial gross primary production and the contribution to its estimation using observations of land surface temperature, solar induced fluorescence, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and land cover offered at multiple resolution as well as other records from other ESA and non-ESA missions.;
The Glacier Science in the Alps project is part of the Alps Regional Initiative and is aimed at maximising the scientific return of European investments in EO specifically from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 specifically to provide first enhanced observation capacity for glaciers in the Alps beyond area to glacier velocity and end of season snow cover …
How to take advantage of optical satellites with near-simultaneous acquisitions to monitor fast displacements that occur at or near the Earth’s surface over large scales? Replying to this question with respect to spring river ice break-up and associated ice-runs at Northern latitudes was the objective of a study by Living Planet fellow Bas Altena who …
Rangelands cover vast expanses of the terrestrial land surface and provide important ecological functions e.g. for carbon sequestration or to prevent land degradation. In Africa, rangelands provide the basis for many livelihoods and are closely coupled to food security and conflict, especially in arid and marginal agro-ecological conditions. Earth Observation (EO) based monitoring of rangeland …
The project focuses on implementing a high-resolution quasi real-time snow monitoring to improve water resource management. It is taking advantage of the recent developments in physically-based snow modelling and is based on high-resolution optical and radar EO missions such as Sentinel-1 and 2. The core service is a snow water equivalent (SWE) product generated using …
The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted sea areas in the world and prone to eutrophication due to its physical characteristics and nutrient, mineral particle and humic substance loading from the surrounding land. Improved understanding of carbon fluxes between land and sea is essential to ultimately plan and implement protection measures. Some of …
The European Space Agency and the WorldWater project with support from CNES, NASA, EARSC, CEOS and GEO invite interested parties to express their interest in participating in a Round Robin inter-comparison of inland surface water detection and monitoring algorithms using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 imagery. The objective of the Round Robin is to enable …
In a world where public health threats are increasingly challenging, wide availability of EO data, increased computational power and AI untapped potential open new opportunities to create early warning systems and support public authorities in decision making. The AIDEO project explored the use of AI applied to a pool of EO datasets in the context …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Cassandra Normandin. In the context of the ESA BIOMASS Earth Explorer mission, the Namib Desert was selected as a test site to assess the performance of P-band SAR for subsurface imaging in arid environments. In cooperation with the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, a study of the paleo-hydrology of …
