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The ESA Agriculture Science Cluster was recently launched to promote networking, collaborative research, and international collaboration in the domain of Earth Observation and Agriculture. It involves several...

Climate change exacerbates droughts by making them more frequent, longer, and more severe. This can have a wide range of impacts on the environment, agriculture, ecosystems and communities...

With many people around the world suffering from various forms of malnutrition it’s important that the absolute basics such as rice, soya and wheat are as nourishing as possible. ESA-funded...

In January 2023, ESA and the European Commission signed an agreement to build a Copernicus mirror site in the Philippines – the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. This new initiative...

New research reveals how satellites can be used to map and monitor forest-cover changes and help implement effective zero deforestation commitments.

Thanks to the benefits of different types of data from two particular Copernicus Sentinel missions and an ingenious new dataset tool, people working in the agriculture sector can monitor...

The objective of this challenge is to advance the state of the art for soil parameter retrieval from hyperspectral data in view of the upcoming Intuition-1 mission.

The WineEO project, funded via the ESA Open Call mechanism, is a step in this direction by developing an operational irrigation scheduling service for winegrowers.

Data and images from satellites aid first responders and recovery agencies in assessing the damage and help researchers understand the nature of these unusually powerful storms.

Through a series of case studies, EARSC aims to gather quantitative evidence that the usage of Copernicus Sentinel data provides an effective and convenient support to various market applications.