ADOPTFranceADOPT aims to define, prototype and test a service for the production, analysis and dissemination of climate change impact indicators for the Occitan Regional Nature Parks and their territories. These indicators are designed via a Living Lab approach and use data from Earth observation satellites.
AEROLAB SPACEGreat Eastern (France)AEROLAB SPACE is a decision support tool for regional authorities to monitor GHGs on a regional scale and give credibility to decarbonisation efforts. The tool based on the synergy of in-situ (ground, aeroplane, balloon) and satellite data sets, which until now have not been available in France, makes AEROLAB a flagship project in terms of adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
AIonWetlandsBassin méditerranéenIn the Mediterranean, wetlands are the richest ecosystems, but also the most threatened by human activities. Using Earth Observation data, coupled with AI-based analysis approaches, the AIonWetlands project aims to strengthen the monitoring of these environments, in order to improve their management and better prioritise conservation and restoration actions.
AirCrowd-AfricaCotonou (Benin) - Dakar (Senegal) - Abidjan (Ivory Coast)AirCrowd-Africa is an innovative and participative solution for assessing air pollution on health in Southern countries. The project will measure air quality at low cost by combining satellite and terrestrial micro- station data, create high-resolution maps of air quality and health risk indices, and model alternative urban development strategies.
ALEOFEUAude (France)Under the effect of climate change, the aggravation of the natural context and the rapid evolution of the stakes exposed, the risk of forest fires is progressing rapidly in the French department of Aude. ALEOFEU should help identify ways of improving existing tools and models, such as an annually updateable hazard and a better assessment of the hydric state of the vegetation.
ALTELYSRennes (France) - Presidente Prudente (Brazil)Monitoring urban temperatures is a major contemporary challenge. However, there are few tools available to land managers for monitoring urban heat islands (UHI). The ALTELYS project proposes a detailed spatialization of the UHI (outdoor and indoor) based on data from connected sensors supplemented by multi-source satellite data.
ARBOCARTO-v2Mainland France - French West Indies - Reunion IslandThe ARBOCARTO V2 application was initially intended for health authorities, to enable them to target places where mosquitoes, which are vectors of human arbovirosis diseases, are likely to proliferate, in order to focus social mobilisation measures for vector control and to adapt the actions of field teams to the conditions of neighbourhoods at risk.
Band-SOSBengal Delta (Bangladesh-India) - Amazon Delta (Brazil)Experimented on the Bengal delta in Bangladesh, BanD-SOS aims to establish a pre-operational service for forecasting cyclonic flooding and the associated societal risk. This service will have two components: a forecast of the flooding hazard in real time when a tropical cyclone hits the coast, and a coupling of this forecast with a mapping of the vulnerability of the exposed populations.
BioEOSOcéan IndienBioEOS proposes to develop observation tools to characterise the spatiotemporal dynamics of coastal biodiversity, map changes and produce operational indicators. The targeted objective is to report on its status and support conservation management. Its first demonstrator is related to the southwestern Indian Ocean region.
BOSCOBrittany (France)The BOSCO project proposes to co-construct a service for estimating water content on the Breton territory at very high spatial and temporal resolution, relevant for agricultural and water resource management. This service integrates diagnostic tools and derived products (water content on root thickness, recharge estimation) to support public policies and decisions.
CACAOCampania - Calabria (Italy)Selling carbon credits provides landowners with a new recurring income. CACAO is an innovative platform that facilitates these exchanges, from analyzing forest CO2 sequestration to managing transactions. Using advanced technologies like remote sensing and AI, CACAO aims to address issues in the voluntary carbon credit market, such as transparency and double counting, and can scale globally.
CARTOVEGECrozet Islands (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)The Cartovege project develops a decision support tool for the conservation of flora and habitats in the French Southern Territories, by combining vegetation mapping and artificial intelligence modeling using satellite and field data.
CARTOVEGE 2Amsterdam Island - St Paul Island - Possession Island (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)Cartovege2 will optimise the natural habitat mapping method developed as part of Cartovege1 and transpose it to two other islands in the French Southern Territories, St Paul and Amsterdam. With an increased diversity of plant formations, this monitoring tool will enable managers to assess vegetation dynamics and the effects of ecological restoration actions.
CHOVE-CHUVAMato Grosso (Brazil)The CHOVE-CHUVA project has developed a tool for monitoring territorial dynamics in Mato Grosso, in the Brazilian Amazon. This service provides simple indicators of changes in climatic variables and land use. Citizen data on perceptions of climate change and the location of rational land use practices are also collected.
CIMOPOLEEMadagascarThe consequences of climate change can already be measured in terms of tropical cyclones, whose power and area of influence increase with ocean temperature. The Cimopolée project aims to better quantify and monitor the impacts of these events in the south-west Indian Ocean through operational processing based on data from the Sentinel-1 and 2 satellites.
City Explorer Paris (France)City Explorer is a planning support tool that accounts for spatial patterns in the socio-demographic demand for Ecosystem Services (ES) and provides metrics that reflect local context. It maps expected benefits of multiple ES associated with urban green or blue space, and allows users to add new greenspace to a city environment to compare the relative benefits of different locations.
ClimHealthMyanmar - ThailandThe ClimHealth project aims to integrate climate and environmental information from satellites into health surveillance systems to develop early warning and guide disease control.
EagleHedgesFrance: Pyrénées-Gascogne - Côtes d'Armor - Loire - Loire-Atlantique - IndreHedgerows are excellent levers for the resilience of territories to climate change and for maintaining biodiversity. EagleHedges has developed tools for monitoring and characterizing the bocage network using Earth observation imagery and very high-resolution 3D models, in order to make up for the lack of reliable, recurring data on the state of the French bocage.
ECLAT Lake ChadCentral AfricaDeveloped in three areas of Africa, the ECLAT project has developed a reproducible methodology for mapping land use based on space observation imagery to observe, evaluate and predict the impacts of climate change. The indicators focus on natural and urban environments, linked to the dynamics of water resources.
EDISONMetropolitan FranceThe EDISON project is part of a growing global awareness of the impact of human activities on the environment and aims to gain a better understanding of the sources of urban pollutant emissions in order to put in place effective reduction policies.
EDUCSCOFranceEDUCSCO is a cross-cutting initiative supported by the SCO’s inter-agency committee. Its purpose is to disseminate knowledge in order to accelerate awareness of climate change issues in our society. It takes the form of presentations, training and teaching materials. It is aimed at school children, students and – above all – the educational community.
EO4AgriWaterGers (France) - Alsace (France) - New CaledoniaEO4AgriWater is a decision-making tool for agricultural and water stakeholders. Using satellite imagery, a set of cartographic indicators will be produced, providing knowledge and in-depth analysis to monitor and react to drought episodes in agriculture. The tool will be used to monitor crop drought, irrigation and water reservoirs.
EO4DroughtMonitoringNew Caledonia (South Pacific)EO4DroughtMonitoring is a decision support tool for institutions and management for the agricultural sector. The system is able to assess the intensity of drought events, estimating their severity by analogy to a historical reference state and, coupled with current data, providing an indication of the plausible future trajectory of a hydrological season.
EO4IntertopoNormandy (France)Intertidal zones, located at the interface between land and sea, play a vital role as natural buffer zones to protect coastal regions. Using optical and radar satellite imagery, EO4Intertopo aims to map the morphological evolution of Normandy's intertidal zones and contribute to the effective management and conservation of these critical ecosystems.
Eo4MountainPastoralismMercantour National Park (France)How does climate change affect high altitude wetlands and how does it influence agro-pastoral practices? This project aims to propose advanced statistical indicators to document the evolution of these areas from Sentinel data, with the originality of correlating physical indicators to expected ecosystem services.
EO4WetlandsLiving Lab Hedwige-Prosperpolder (Belgium/Netherlands)The restoration of wetlands, critical ecosystems, is vital in view of the challenges of climate change. The full-scale experiment of depoldering offers a unique opportunity for EO4Wetlands to monitor this restoration using the complementarity between different wavelengths and scales of observation (in situ, drone and satellite).
EO4WFDSwedenThe objective of the project is to develop satellite based water quality indicators for freshwaters that can be used in the work related to the national water framework directive (WFD) assessments. These products can complement existing methods and results with respect to both typing of water bodies and assessment of quality factors for the national implementation of the WFD.
EOLydMoroccoMorocco is characterized by a high degree of vulnerability to drought, which is becoming more and more frequent, with adverse impacts at both hydro-agricultural and socio-economic levels. The aim of the EOLyd project is to develop an index of cereal production losses by combining indices and indicators derived from satellite data with existing statistics and measurements.
FLAudeAude department (France)FLAude aims at better understanding extreme hydrometeo phenomena and elaborating indicators for prevention & risk reduction, adapted to the use of local decision-makers on Aude & Occitanie. Twofold EO-derived info (extreme floods impacts on territories and C3S data analysis & projections) combined with other data, will feed iterative public policy dialogue on CC impact and EO enriched planning too
FloodDAMGaronne (France) - Ebro (Spain) - Betsiboka (Madagascar) - Mississipi (USA)This projects aims at building an automated service to reliably detect, monitor and assess flood events globally. In order to understand and anticipate these extreme events, a sensor-fusion approach is deployed, aiming at incorporating a multitude of satellite- and ground-based sensors as well as a combination of machine learning- (ML) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models.
FloodDAM-DTGaronne river basin (France) - Ohio River watershed (United States)As follow up of its predecessor FloodDAM, FloodDAM-DT aims to provide an automated service to reliably detect, monitor, assess and predictfloods on a global scale within a Franco-American collaboration. This Digital Twin development is an international effort to devise an Earth System digital twin based on the water cycle and focused on floods.
GADE LAPLIHaiti (Caribbean)At the cutting edge of space technology, this project provides indicators and services using satellite data to estimate rainfall and flood zones. In the highly vulnerable region of Haiti, the operational objective (warning, crisis management) also serves the knowledge of climate change by identifying and characterising extreme events.
GeoHaTACCRwanda (Eastern Africa)GeoHaTACC aims to detect and inventory hydro-geological hazards in tropical environments and to document the consequences of climate change on these hazards. An operational toolbox combining various sources of information, the demonstrator is being implemented in Rwanda, an African country particularly impacted by these events, with a view to eventually being transposed to other territories.
Green Urban SatGreater Nancy (France)The objective of Green Urban Sat project is to develop, starting from satellite data, methods and tools able to generate a geospatial database of fine description of the vegetation, that is adapted to the evaluation of the ecosystem services, to produce a demonstrator on a conurbation, and to test the reproducibility on other areas.
GreenSpaceValencia (Spain) - Bucharest (Romania)In cities, trees reduce air pollution and urban heat islands (UHIs). Using THR satellite imagery, GreenSpace is offering towns and cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants a complete inventory of private and public trees, an estimate of the environmental benefits for the town or city, a map of UHIs and recommendations for drawing up an ad hoc greening plan.
HABITAT YangtzeChinaThis project takes advantages of the latest remote sensing sensors, deep AI algorithms, and OpenGIS to provide a rich-feature, large-scale, high spatial-temporal resolution, quick response, and remotely accessible data and map service of the middle and lower Yangtze-river basin wetlands to the local, national, and international birds’ researcher, wetland manager, and climate change researcher.
IRRISAT-MAROCMoroccoIRRISAT-MOROCCO aims to set up an irrigation water optimization support system using satellite data. It is based on the combination of two complementary approaches to estimating plant water consumption and requirements, to provide results at plot, irrigated sector and watershed scales.
LITTOSATBritanny (France) - Normandy (France)LITTOSAT will provide managers of coastal territories and marine protected areas with a dashboard for monitoring the spatial evolution of coastal vegetation in near-real time, fed by new data from satellite images. The project will propose new satellite products, a visualisation interface and change detection functions.
LITTOSCOPEPalavas les flots - Greater Montpellier area (France) - Gâvres (France)Facing the mean sea level rise and extreme events, the LITTOSCOPE solution identifies future coastal flooding hazards and assess the related socio-economic risks using satellite data (high-resolution stereo-imagery, altimetry).
MANGROVESMadagascar - West Indies - French GuianaThe need to understand and monitor mangrove forests continues to be a priority: it involves organising the management of their natural resources, characterising the relationships between global change and the state of their local environments and ensuring their conservation. Using Copernicus and THRS data, the project’s objective is to support institutional stakeholders in charge of Mangroves.
MEO-ClimateGers (France)MEO-Climate is a mapping platform that creates added value by delivering local, frequently refreshed and validated information to local land management practices. Its purpose lies in the monitoring of spatial and temporal changes for the supervision of local initiatives, and more specifically to farming practices, the installation of renewable energy facilities and water resources management.
MériméeMekong Delta (Vietnam)Mérimée aims to map rice fields dynamically, as well as their irrigation status, continuous or alternating. The project uses Sentinel satellite data from the Copernicus programme to obtain a spatial and temporal estimate of methane emissions in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
MexiCornMexico (Central America)Agricultural areas of native cultivars are under threat because of the effects of climate change. Mexico is one of the producers of a large diversity of native corn and severely affected by atypical drought periods. This project proposes the creation of an operational tool using information from optical/microwave sensors onboard of EO satellites to monitor parameters from corn areas.
MIGR-SAFENouvelle Aquitaine (France)If the preservation of migratory birds contributes to sustainable development, their pilgrimage is strongly affected by landscapes, human activities and climate change. Ensuring their journey and protecting their stopovers requires new collaborations between local authorities and scientists. MIGR-SAFE proposes new tools and usable data for each of them.
Monitoring the Gold CoastAustraliaAn investigation into patterns of post-storm beach recovery in the Gold Coast, Australia between 2015 and 2020, featuring the development of an automated methodology for waterline extraction that utilises Sentinel-1 SAR satellite imagery and tidal state data to investigate net accretion or erosion, subject to whether waterlines move shoreward (erosion) or offshore (accretion).
OpenGCSChinaOpenGCS provides geological carbon sequestration with dynamic monitoring of CO2 leakage. Based on the combination of wireless sensor networks real-time online monitoring and regional satellite observations, OpenGCS is designed and implemented to assure the studies of GCS safety assessment, environmental impact, and risk control.
OpHySEFrench Guiana (South America)The OpHySE (Operational Hydrology from Space and modEls) project, which has been declined on all the catchment areas of the territory of Guyana as a demonstration, has set up a platform for real-time monitoring of the state of rivers and to assist navigation in a context of climate change.
ORION Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France)The ORION project aims to make indicators derived from satellite images available to biodiversity managers in an emblematic mountain area: the Chamonix valley. Sentinel-2 images, botanical surveys and photo traps are combined to assess the impact of shrub expansion on plant diversity and large mountain herbivores.
OSS Saint LouisSénégalThis project concerned the Saint-Louis coastline, which is particularly vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding. The aim was to acquire more information, to raise awareness among all players of the hazards and risks posed to coastal areas as a result of climate change, and to develop tools and indicators relating to the vulnerability of the local population and economic activities.
Pléiades4UrbanFloodMontpellier (France)In a context of rainfall intensification, P4UF prototypes a service for the a priori evaluation of the sensitivity of an urban environment to flooding through the production of risk maps. Its added value lies in obtaining urban topography (buildings and vegetation) and physics (waterproofing), exclusively based on monoscopic THRS imagery.
PODCAST-DemoIndiaWe propose to develop a web-based visualisation and analysis tool that provides cholera-risk information in the northern Indian Ocean coastal regions. The information is based on a pilot cholera-risk model that uses satellite observations from the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative, in-situ and clinical data from publicly available archives.
QUANTICA OccitaniaFranceQUANTICA aims to develop a tool combining plant-soil models and remote sensing to quantify, at the plot level, the additional carbon storage induced by intermediate crops in order to better compensate farmers who engage in these practices. The tool is being co-constructed with the actors of the agricultural chain and tested in Occitania to prototype future services.
SAFARINiamey (Niger)SAFARI will develop and demonstrate an online dashboard containing present and future urban climate indicator maps for Niamey (Niger). The maps will be based on fine-scale satellite imagery, advanced climate modelling, and global climate projections. Applications will highlight the potential of urban trees as an Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) measure to counter excessive heat.
Sat4BDNBLa Rochelle - Toulouse - Marseille (France)This project aims to establish national indicators of urban overheating, associated vulnerability of the population and an assessment of mitigation strategies. The results, established using spatial data for albedo and land cover, will be freely available in the National Buildings Database (BDNB).
SatLCZLille (France) - Rayong (Thailand)Now an operational tool, the project has developed a methodology to classify local climate zones derived exclusively from very high resolution satellite images. The issues identified are the vulnerability of urban environments during summer heat waves, as well as the adaptation and mitigation of local heat peaks.
SCO FrichesAgricoles Région Occitanie (France)In the Occitania region, the development of agricultural wasteland is a major concern for elected representatives wishing to act in favor of food sovereignty, in a context where fire hazards and health problems continue to increase. The aim of this project is to take stock of agricultural wasteland and facilitate the process of redeveloping these areas, while respecting their multifunctionality.
SCOLivePays de Grasse (France)SCOLive carries out an observatory associating all the actors in the field to map the diseases and parasites harmful to the olive tree. This information allows to conduct a scientific study on the environmental conditions conducive to these diseases and to establish a predictive model in order to anticipate and remedy them.
SeSaMCaribbean Sea - East of the Caribbean islands - Cuba - Yucatan - Western AfricaSeSaM contributes to sargassum algae management in all the territories affected by sargassum strandings. Using satellite observations and numerical modelling, SeSaM allows observing the situation in real time and forecasting the next seasonal sargassum proliferation and influxes.
Space4IRRIGTarn - Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur (France)Faced with global warming and increasing demand, particularly for agricultural irrigation, it is urgent to develop a sustainable and equitable water management strategy. This project provides water management actors with indicators to improve their local knowledge as well as supporting the elaboration of effective water resource management strategies for the future.
Space4NatureSurrey (United Kingdom)Combining Earth observation, citizen science and AI, this project wants to produce automatically updated maps for planning and monitoring nature recovery in Surrey and beyond. Aimed at planning and delivering climate resilience and mitigation measures, a key outcome will be to reverse the fragmentation of habitats by creating corridors of land that is restored and/or managed land for nature.
Stock WaterIndia - Burkina Faso - Tunisia - Laos - BrazilDams are strategic tools for countries and their management of water resources. StockWater aims to put in place a system for monitoring the load of dams based on satellite data, and a specific processing system, thereby facilitating the work of the public authorities in this area.
StrataSomalia and the whole world The links between environmental change, climate stress, conflict and the vulnerability of populations are complex, and access to data on these subjects is not straightforward. By bringing together data from a variety of sources in a single platform, Strata makes it possible to see and locate 'hot spots', i.e. the areas most at risk.
SwedCoast-BlueCarbSweden: Kristineberg bay - Lomma bay - Kalmar straightThe project evaluates and executes mapping of blue carbon (seagrass and macroalgae) as well as bottom substrates by combining satellites, field data, and specialist knowledge. The project outputs include peer-reviewed articles and an online decision support tool for coastal managers. An article on the effect of land type and land use on coastal water quality has already been published.
TAHATAIFrench PolynesiaTAHATAI aims to develop, implement, automate, operate and replicate on a Pacific scale, online digital resources (satellite data, apps, expertise, indicators), useful for the governance of the coastal zone. These resources are integrated within a new generation digital platform, called "horizontal".
TAHATAI NeoFrench PolynesiaConceived as a continuation of the TAHATAI project, TAHATAI Neo aims at the operational implementation of analysis applications dedicated to decision-makers and monitoring indicators according to the three axes : Water quality in the context of climate change (plankton blooms), Frequentation and use of the lagoon and the coastline, Coastal human pressure in the context of climate change.
THERMOCITYToulouse - Paris - Montpellier - Marseille - Strasbourg (France)The THERMOCITY project involves studying urban heat islands and heat losses through the development of a thermography analysis tool based on satellite imagery. Data and models are then compared in order to understand these phenomena and work towards the ultimate aim: adapting cities to climate change.
TropiSCOGuiana Shield (South America) - Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam (South-East Asia) - Gabon (Africa)Accounting for half of the world's forests, the rainforest is under serious threat. In 2019, the equivalent of a soccer stadium is destroyed every two seconds. TropiSCO aims to map deforested areas in near-real time and to publish the information so that local actors can intervene, alert public opinion, and account for lost surfaces.
VIET-ARROCentral VietnamVIET-ARRO has developed a demonstrator of a recovery observatory in response to periods of intense cyclonic activity impacting food security in Vietnam. The tool implemented provides managers with regularly updated geospatial information to assess impacts, monitor recovery over time and promote the transition to resilient, low-emission systems.
Vimesco-RiceVietnamDomestic rice production in Vietnam is under threat as a result of climate change, flooding, droughts of increasing frequency, duration and intensity, and saltwater intrusion. In Vietnam, the project has implemented a demonstrator of operational tools for the dynamic monitoring of rice crops using radar-based remote sensing data.
WACA-VARWest African coastAn interdisciplinary programme, WACA-VAR aims to implement a range of actions to sustainably manage the effects of climate change on the coasts of West Africa. A web platform will highlight the direct use of satellite data to generate knowledge to aid decision-making in terms of coastal risk management policies.
XtremQualitySouth West Region (France) - Parana (Brazil)The project focuses on monitoring the water quality of small water reservoirs by remote sensing. With the implementation of indicators on the trajectory of these surfaces by aggregating multi-source data, it aims to improve our knowledge and to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on these water reservoirs, which are essential for many uses.