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On December 16^th, 2022, the new Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem project kicked off with the stringent ambition to become the public go-to platform and..

With the huge amount of data being collected by several Earth observation missions, limitations in data downlink capacity and storage have become a major..

Last summer extreme rainfall caused devastating floods in the South of Belgium. This summer we’re experiencing a major drought, the fifth in the last six..

Earth observation research is a multidisciplinary research topic and acquiring data for this type of research is not always easy. A lot of organizational..

When thinking of palm trees, most people start dreaming of beautiful beaches or stunning locations. But besides this ornamental aspect, palm trees also..

For the past decades now, remote sensing has been increasingly contributing to many agricultural monitoring services by providing worldwide systematic..

Youth for climate, sign for my future, claim the climate … several initiatives have been started all over the world to encourage our policy makers to take..

Launched in 2013 and more than 5 years of observations, ESA’s miniature satellite PROBA-V monitors the evolution of our planet’s vegetation every day. We..

The balance between the food demand and availability is becoming more and more fragile in many parts of the world. To feed the rapidly growing population,

Making Earth observation data freely accessible and usable. That is still our main goal with Terrascope, the online platform for user-friendly ..

We can feel it, hear it and we can even see it from space! Europe is hit severely by a heat wave. Everybody is sharing images and comparisons of..

In April 2014 Sentinel-1 was launched, as the first of a fleet of European satellites developed to deliver Earth observation data for the Copernicus..

Tonight at dinner you might not think about poverty, hunger, and poor nutrition, but unfortunately that’s not the case for one in nine people in the..

From Hungary to California or from Saudi Arabia to Antarctica.In our last blog of 2017 we want to show you some places on Earth & take you back to some..

The JRC-MARS unit (Monitoring  Agricultural ResourceS) develops methods, tools and systems to monitor agricultural evolutions (areas and yields) in Europe..

Precision agriculture aims to optimize returns by automated observation of crop fields using small unmanned aerial vehicles. The challenge is to provide a..

Static land cover maps are often hard to use in different applications. But with a wide range of user groups, we need more elastic land cover mapping..

European farmers increasingly face more risks that can affect their livelihoods. With greater market orientation of the European Union’s Common..

To maximize the usability and uptake of Copernicus satellite data, ESA is setting up partnerships or collaborative ground segments in its member states...

Mangroves are somewhat strange, exotic ecosystems, but they are crucial to our planet. Monitoring mangroves is therefore essential in understanding..

Space is inspiring. Space is innovating. Space supersedes barriers we have on earth. Space is about stars, planets, moons, asteroids and astronauts. But..

When you look at a satellite image, although you may not see it, every pixel in the image is subtly contaminated by the atmosphere. If you want to derive..

Imagine a field, where 10000 variaties are growing in tighly, regularly spaced plots. Welcome to the daily live of plant breeders. Plant breeders observe,..

Small differences in the content of light, far more subtle than what we can perceive as different colours, carry valuable information about the health..

ESA’s miniature satellite PROBA-V may only be as large as your average dishwasher, its potential in Earth Observation is inversely proportional. Providing..

With more than 70 % of our Earth covered by water and nearly half of our global population living near the coast, the importance of water on Earth cannot..