Projects

The Projects section highlights activities supported under ESA’s Sentinel User Preparation (SUP) initiative, with a focus on building the knowledge, skills, and methodologies needed to fully exploit data from upcoming Copernicus Sentinel Expansion and Next Generation missions. These projects serve as a testing ground for new approaches, enabling users to explore, refine, and validate techniques for working with next-generation Earth observation data.

Urban Land Surface Temperature for Public Health

The objective of this activity is to develop a retrieval algorithm for LST with high temporal and spatial resolution over urban areas aimed at public health applications.

AQUATIME

The AQUATIME project aims to prepare the future synergistic use of Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions CHIME and LSTM to improve the understanding of aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity through the development of novel phytoplankton information algorithms and products.

ANACONDA

The project develops innovative methodologies and applications for inland water quality monitoring and ecosystem/biodiversity assessment by combining simulated Sentinel Expansion Mission data with existing Sentinel and in-situ datasets.

CROSCIM

The focus of CROSCIM is Arctic operations and forecast. The forecast focus on sea ice and it is based on the principles of direct observation to predictions (AI-DOP).

AquaSUP

The objective of the AquaSUP project is to develop and validate novel concepts for the integrated use of data from the CHIME and LSTM missions, to overcome prevailing information deficiencies in inland water and coastal monitoring and management.

EO4Resilience

The EO4Resilience project aims to develop innovative Earth Observation (EO)-based biodiversity indicators to assess forest resilience to drought.

HEATWISE

Objective of the activity is to develop three key urban products that can be generated through the synergistic use of hyperspectral and thermal data of LSTM and CHIME together with S-2, S-3 and ESA’s Next Generations Sentinel Continuation missions.

AgriCEM

The AgriCEM project leverages the potential of EO data for agricultural applications by focusing on the hyperspectral CHIME and the thermal LSTM missions.

RAVE

This project assesses the synergistic utility of the upcoming CHIME and ROSE-L Copernicus Expansion Missions for a range of railside vegetation monitoring applications.

SENWISE

The objective of SENWISE is to develop high-resolution geoinformation tools to advance our understanding of land-atmosphere-human interactions and provide decision-relevant data for facilitating agriculture and forest management practices in Belgium, France, and Italy.

EO4SEM

EO4SEM aims to advance towards the EO-driven monitoring of ship emissions, particularly GHGs such as CO2 and CH4 as well as air pollutants like NOx.

DECSO-NRT-Europe

DECSO-NRT-Europe aims to develop a near-real time (NRT) NOx emission service for Europe based on Sentinel data.

EU-FOCIS

The aim of the EU-FOCIS project is to develop and demonstrate a forest health and carbon (above-ground) monitoring product for Europe, using ESA open-source satellites, to support voluntary (and compliance) market investment in forest carbon initiatives.

HIRLOMAP

HIRLOMAP focusses on tactical product delivery for detailed local analysis in the vicinity of vessels or offshore structures, extending detection capabilities to smaller icebergs and more detailed ice type / open water separation, providing local charts of fast and fjord ice conditions and monitoring of coastal sea ice for research on coastal erosion and flooding.

Teresa

Drought poses a critical threat to global water and food security. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop advanced methodologies for accurately assessing water security.

MULTIWATER

MULTIWATER aims to advance EO-based approaches for water resource management by addressing critical gaps in monitoring agricultural and forest water use.

Multisensor Water Discharges

Monitoring liquid discharges is vital for protecting coastal and freshwater ecosystems and safeguarding public health.

CHILL-Y (CHIME + LSTM + ROSE-L)

Within CHILL-Y, representative datasets from three upcoming Sentinel Expansion missions (LSTM, CHIME, and ROSE-L) will be generated and used to demonstrate a novel service for improved assessment of yield quantity and quality.

NextSoils+

The NextSoils+ project addresses one of today’s most urgent environmental challenges: the monitoring and sustainable management of soil health.

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