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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...

Radar data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 are supporting a bespoke monitoring service for cement operations, nuclear waste, mining and disaster management in Hungary. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture...

Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk in Europe and significantly impacts the health of the European population, particularly in urban areas. Following on from the Sentinel-5P satellite– the first Copernicus...

A paper published recently in the journal Earth System Science Data reports on the results of ESA’s Science for Society Irrigation+ project, which aims to show how irrigation...

Forest ecosystems are rapidly experiencing the impacts of climate change and timely forest monitoring is growing increasingly urgent. An ESA-led project, Sentinel-1 for Science: Amazonas, has...

ESA and the European Commission have signed a contribution agreement to build a Copernicus mirror site in the Philippines – the first of its kind in southeast Asia.

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

To improve the understanding of current trends in global urbanization, ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are jointly developing the world's most comprehensive dataset on human settlement.

This new mission is now delivering the world's most accurate data on the most immediate consequences of climate change: the sea-level rise.