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View article: LidarTeam: a remote sensing driven method for massive lidar data to regional DHM refined through user feedback
LidarTeam: a remote sensing driven method for massive lidar data to regional DHM refined through user feedback Open
This paper presents a method to obtain Digital Height Models from massive airborne lidar data processing (billions of points) over tens of thousands of km2, along with a new Geospatial User Feedback (GUF) geoservice. The method avoids larg…
View article: Essential Variables as a semantic interoperability solution for the Green Deal Data Space
Essential Variables as a semantic interoperability solution for the Green Deal Data Space Open
The Green Deal Data Space is born in the big data paradigm where many sensors produce constant streams of Earth observation data (remote sensing and in-situ). The traditional and manual organization of data in layers is no longer efficient…
View article: Multi-faceted habitat connectivity: how to orchestrate remote sensing with citizen science data?
Multi-faceted habitat connectivity: how to orchestrate remote sensing with citizen science data? Open
In the era of declining biodiversity, global climate change and transformations in land use, terrestrial habitat connectivity is one of the key parameters of ecosystem management. In this regard, the land-use/land-cover (LULC) dynamics is …
View article: An innovative Drinking Water Data Space in times of water scarcity and extreme events: the WQeMS platform
An innovative Drinking Water Data Space in times of water scarcity and extreme events: the WQeMS platform Open
In the era of global challenges and big Earth data computation it’s becoming increasingly important to have proper interoperable solutions for describing, cataloguing, finding, accessing, and distributing highly valuable datasets. Th…
View article: Data Spaces as an exploratory solution for big data biodiversity challenges in support of the European Green Deal: the case of terrestrial habitat connectivity
Data Spaces as an exploratory solution for big data biodiversity challenges in support of the European Green Deal: the case of terrestrial habitat connectivity Open
Integrity of natural ecosystems, including terrestrial ones, and their connectivity is one of the main concerns of current European and Global Green Policies, e.g., the European Green Deal. Thus, public administration managers need reliabl…
View article: G-reqs as a framework for defining precise, technology-agnostic, user-driven geospatial in-situ requirements. Towards a FAIR Global Earth Observation System of Systems without data gaps.
G-reqs as a framework for defining precise, technology-agnostic, user-driven geospatial in-situ requirements. Towards a FAIR Global Earth Observation System of Systems without data gaps. Open
In-situ Earth observation data play a key role in environmental and climate related domains. However, in-situ data is often missing or hardly accessible for users due to technical barriers, for example, unstructured metadata information, m…
View article: OGC Web APIs to Make Data Available in the Green Deal Data Space
OGC Web APIs to Make Data Available in the Green Deal Data Space Open
The Green Deal Data Space is born in the big data paradigm where sensors produce constant streams of Earth observation data (remote sensing or in-situ). The traditional and manual organization of data in layers is no longer efficient as da…
View article: WQEMS platform for inland surface water bodies' monitoring: serving user communities and supporting expert analyses
WQEMS platform for inland surface water bodies' monitoring: serving user communities and supporting expert analyses Open
<p>The Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service platform (WQeMS) is an outcome of the H2020 WQeMS project. It leverages on experimentation and service development relatively to lakes and open surface water …
View article: Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals
Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals Open
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring peace and prosperity [...]
View article: G-reqs, a New Model Proposal for Capturing and Managing In Situ Data Requirements: First Results in the Context of the Group on Earth Observations
G-reqs, a New Model Proposal for Capturing and Managing In Situ Data Requirements: First Results in the Context of the Group on Earth Observations Open
In the field of Earth observation, the importance of in situ data was recognized by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in the Canberra Declaration in 2019. The GEO community focuses on three global priority engagement areas: the United …
View article: G-reqs: How a user requirements system in GEO can improve the in-situ data availability?
G-reqs: How a user requirements system in GEO can improve the in-situ data availability? Open
The in-situ Earth Observation data segment is fragmented and there are significant data gaps to complete an observing system offering global datasets including series with relevant temporal depth. To identify the most urgent user needs, th…
View article: What does the European Spatial Data Infrastructure INSPIRE need in order to become a Green Deal Data Space?
What does the European Spatial Data Infrastructure INSPIRE need in order to become a Green Deal Data Space? Open
In May 2007, the INSPIRE directive established the path towards creating the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI). While the Joint Research Centre (JRC) defined a set of detailed implementation guidelines, the European member states…
View article: Aligning citizen science and remote sensing phenology observations to characterize climate change impact on vegetation
Aligning citizen science and remote sensing phenology observations to characterize climate change impact on vegetation Open
Phenology observations are essential indicators to characterize the local effects of climate change. Citizen participation in the collection of phenological observations is a potential approach to provide data at both high temporal scale a…
View article: Applying water requirements into metadata in the era of SDGs and Essential Variables: semantics, quality parameters and discoverability in the GEM+
Applying water requirements into metadata in the era of SDGs and Essential Variables: semantics, quality parameters and discoverability in the GEM+ Open
<p>WQeMS aims to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the &#8216;water we drink&#8217;. This Copernicus service focuses on monitorin…
View article: Essential earth observation variables for high-level multi-scale indicators and policies
Essential earth observation variables for high-level multi-scale indicators and policies Open
Several holistic approaches are based on the description of socio-ecological systems to address the sustainability challenge. Essential Variables (EVs) have the potential to support these approaches by describing the status of the Earth sy…
View article: A Portal Offering Standard Visualization and Analysis on top of an Open Data Cube for Sub-National Regions: The Catalan Data Cube Example
A Portal Offering Standard Visualization and Analysis on top of an Open Data Cube for Sub-National Regions: The Catalan Data Cube Example Open
The amount of data that Sentinel fleet is generating over a territory such as Catalonia makes it virtually impossible to manually download and organize as files. The Open Data Cube (ODC) offers a solution for storing big data products in a…
View article: Developing food, water and energy nexus workflows
Developing food, water and energy nexus workflows Open
There is a growing recognition of the interdependencies among the supply systems that rely upon food, water and energy. Billions of people lack safe and sufficient access to these systems, coupled with a rapidly growing global demand and i…
View article: GEOEssential – mainstreaming workflows from data sources to environment policy indicators with essential variables
GEOEssential – mainstreaming workflows from data sources to environment policy indicators with essential variables Open
When defining indicators on the environment, the use of existing initiatives should be a priority rather than redefining indicators each time. From an Information, Communication and Technology perspective, data interoperability and standar…
View article: Finding the essential: Improving conservation monitoring across scales
Finding the essential: Improving conservation monitoring across scales Open
To account for progress towards conservation targets, monitoring systems should capture not only information on biodiversity but also knowledge on the dynamics of ecological processes and the related effects on human well-being. Protected …
View article: Earth observations for sustainable development goals monitoring based on essential variables and driver-pressure-state-impact-response indicators
Earth observations for sustainable development goals monitoring based on essential variables and driver-pressure-state-impact-response indicators Open
In recent years, researchers of different communities have increased their efforts in formalizing a set of measurements regularly collected for analysing changes in Drivers, States, Impacts and Responses of a given discipline. In some case…
View article: REMOTE SENSING ANALYTICAL GEOSPATIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTLY IN THE WEB BROWSER
REMOTE SENSING ANALYTICAL GEOSPATIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTLY IN THE WEB BROWSER Open
Current map viewers that run on modern web browsers are mainly requesting images generated on the fly in the server side and transferred in pictorial format that they can display (PNG or JPEG). In OGC WMS standard this is done for the whol…
View article: Gap analysis for the marine component within ConnectinGEO
Gap analysis for the marine component within ConnectinGEO Open
ConnectinGEO Workshop on Gap Analysis and Prioritization, 10-11 October 2016, Laxenburg, Austria
View article: Current status of the Essential Variables as an instrument to assess the Earth Observation Networks in Europe
Current status of the Essential Variables as an instrument to assess the Earth Observation Networks in Europe Open
ConnectinGEO (Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European is an H2020 Coordination and Support Action with the primary goal of linking existing Earth Observation networks…
View article: Topology of the European Network of Earth Observation Networks and the need for an European Network of Networks
Topology of the European Network of Earth Observation Networks and the need for an European Network of Networks Open
ConnectinGEO (Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European Observations" is an H2020 Coordination and Support Action with the primary goal of linking existing Earth Observa…
View article: D2.1. SDG Workshop Report. “Navigating Sustainability on a Changing Planet”
D2.1. SDG Workshop Report. “Navigating Sustainability on a Changing Planet” Open
The report summarizes the Workshop on Sustainable Development Goals titled "Navigating Sustainability on a Changing Planet," at which the methodology for linking societal goals to Essential Variables (EVs) was discussed. In the first part,…