Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation

On 24 April 2024, the European Parliament took a major step forward to deal with the key environmental and health challenges of air pollution, adopting the revised provisional political...

Space endeavours require innovation, and innovation thrives on diversity. Studies show that employees who feel that their organisation supports diversity, report an increase in their ability...

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...

Following a year of intense wildfire activity in 2023, when Canada saw around 18 million hectares of land burn, emitting an estimated 480 million tonnes...

The new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) report for Earth Observation has been published, providing a longer-term perspective for Research & Innovation, with the purpose to inform...

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...

The European Union (EU) has taken significant steps to address the issue of deforestation and forest degradation, with the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the proposed Forest Monitoring Framework being...

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...

Capable of absorbing and storing vast amounts of CO 2, forests are our secret weapon in the fight against climate change. According to some estimates, trees...