Earth Observation support for the International Fund for Agricultural Development – 2014
Summary report of projects in cooperation with the International Fund for Agriculture and Development
Tag: sustainable development
ForEarth
Prime company: GEOMATYS (FR)The objective of the ForEarth project is to provide a mobile-oriented environmental alert service dedicated to public institutions, scientists and citizens to keep a close watch on their surrounding environment based on freely-available satellite Earth Observation data. A microservices infrastructure, customised for hosting EO data will be developed and deployed. The infrastructure will be accessed …
EO4SD – Eastern Partnership
Prime company: Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK-PAN) (PL)EO4EP – Earth Observation for Eastern Partnership is an ESA initiative which aims to achieve a step increase in the uptake of satellite-based environmental information in the development programs implemented by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank in the Eastern European Region, in particular in order to support the technical collaboration and knowledge …
EO4SD – Agriculture and Rural Development
Prime company: ELEAF B.V. (NL)EO4SD – Agriculture and Rural Development project – aims at demonstrating the benefits of EO-based geo-information products and services to support agricultural monitoring and management tasks, in particular projects and programmes of the Mulatilateral Development Banks (MDBs) such as World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD and Asian Development Bank which deal with land degradation, soil …
EO4SD – Water Resources Management
Prime company: DHI GRAS A/S (DK)EO4SD – Earth Observation for Sustainable Development – is a new ESA initiative which aims to achieve a step increase in the uptake of satellite-based environmental information in the IFIs regional and global programs. It will follow a systematic, userdriven approach in order to meet longer-term, strategic geospatial information needs in the individual developing countries, …
EO4SD-Urban
Prime company: GAF AG (DE)The EO4SD-Urban project aims at demonstrating the benefits of satellite Earth Observation-based geoinformation products to support urban planning tasks, in the context of projects and programmes of Mulatilateral Development Banks (MDBs) such as the World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, etc., and stakeholders in their Client States, as well as major global …
EO4SD – Marine and Coastal Resources Management
Prime company: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL (GB)The objective of this contract is to develop and demonstrate a portfolio of EO based information services that can be embedded into a critical mass of investment projects funded by International Development Banks which address marine and coastal issues. The main focus will be information services addressing coastal dynamics (bathymetry, coastal erosion, sedimentation), coastal environment …
EO4SD – Climate Resilience
Prime company: GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA (ES)The ESA EO4SD Climate Resilience project encapsulates heterogeneous and multi-disciplinary knowledge to provide answer about the real potential of Earth Observation in supporting climate resilience decision making at regional and national scale, and in collaboration with key Multilateral Development Banks (or MDBs). The project aims at developing an EO-based climate screening and risk management tools. …
EO4SD – Support to States affected by Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Prime company: CLS COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES (FR)The objective of this contract is to develop and demonstrate a set of EO based information services to support the activities of International Development Banks in areas affected by fragility, conflict and violence. This includes activities addressing the causes and consequences of fragility, conflict and violence as part of an economic and social development strategy …
Earth Observation for sustainable development – Partnership report 2013
Summary report of the first batch of projects in cooperation with the World Bank