The project sets out to use EO and geologic information to detect and monitor artisanal & small-scale mining (ASM) activities in tropical areas. ASM is an important economic factor in developing countries but poses serious environmental, health, and criminal threats to local communities. The associated deforestation is also a considerable factor in regional and global climate …
Join us during LPS22 in Bonn to learn about EO AFRICA and the latest research results in Africa. LPS22 is the key event in Earth Observation, organised every 3 years by ESA and gathering more than 3000 participants from any part of the world. During the 5-days event, the state of the art of scientific …
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 …
Climate warming in the northern high latitudes is twice as strong as the global average. Increasing surface temperatures drive significant changes in the cryosphere, reducing the snow mass and extent, seasonal frost and permafrost. Changes in the cryosphere are interconnected with changes in the biosphere, e.g. carbon uptake and release by vegetation and soil. These …
The MRV4C project, developing a Monitoring, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for cocoa agroforestry in the Dominican Republic (DR) was a 1-year activity funded by the European Space Agency through the Open Call funding opportunity, addressing activity line 6, “EO for Sustainable Development”, of the ESA EO SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY programme. The aim of …
Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) represents an effective risk management option, able to complement more traditional Disaster Risk Reduction measures by offering a lean way to unlock resources for a fast and prompt reaction when a disaster occurs. This is particularly important when sovereign risk is considered in countries where the magnitude of flood events often …
EOSAT 4 Sustainable Amazon demonstrates near real time monitoring of forest disturbances in the Colombian Amazon to support the country in reaching its sustainable development goals.
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) Initiative (http://eo4sd.esa.int), linked to the ESA-WB partnership, has started in September 2020 a new thematic cluster dedicated to Forest Management which is financed by ESA through 2023. The EO4SD-Forest Management Cluster has the overall objective of demonstrating the utility and benefits of mainstreaming Satellite …
Agricultural monitoring at national scale is a prerequisite for assessing and analyzing the agricultural resources by mandated authorities, usually the agricultural National Statistical Offices (NSOs). NSO collect in general national agricultural monitoring data by farm and household surveys. Recognizing the limitations of the current agricultural data collection in developing, emerging as well as in industrialized …
Since early 2019 a group of EO information suppliers, coordinated by ESA, have been participating at the EO Clinic, an EO support service in response to quick turnaround requests by key development banks and agencies. Environmental data are combined with the requesters’ own datasets to help decision making within running development projects. A few examples …
