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Région Occitanie (France)
SCO FrichesAgricoles
In Occitania, the development of agricultural wastelands is a major concern for elected officials who wish to act for food sovereignty, in a context where the risk of fire and health problems continue to increase. This project aims to map agricultural wastelands and to support the requalification of these areas while respecting their multifunctionality.
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France
MEO-Climate Gers
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.
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Laos, Cambodge, Vietnam
TropiSCO South East Asia
Accounting for half of the world's forests, tropical forests are under severe threat. In 2019, the equivalent of a football stadium is destroyed every two seconds. TropiSCO aims to map deforested areas in near-real time and publish the information so that local actors can intervene, alert public opinion and count the areas lost.
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France
C-MONITOR France
C-MONITOR France offers a daily and localized estimate of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and pollutants from fossil fuels on French territory. Merging data from socio-economic activities and remote sensing from space, the information will be distributed to regional and local authorities, industrialists emitting GHGs, and the general public via indicators.
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Thaïland
SatLCZ Rayong
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.
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France
SatLCZ Lille
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.
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India
PODCAST-Demo
We 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.
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Australia
Monitoring the Gold Coast
An 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).
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France
City Explorer
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.
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France
FLAUDE Occitania
FLAude aims at better understand extreme hydrometeo phenomena and elaborate indicators for prevention & risk reduction, adapted to local decision makers use 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 tools.
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France
FLAUDE Eastern Pyrenees
FLAude aims at better understand extreme hydrometeo phenomena and elaborate indicators for prevention & risk reduction, adapted to local decision makers use 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 tools.
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China
HABITAT Yangtze
This 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.
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Brazil
Band-SOS Amazon Delta
Experimented on the Amazon Delta, BanD-SOS aims to establish a pre-operational service for flood forecasting and associated societal risk. This service will provide a real-time forecast of the flood hazard, resulting from the conjunction of river floods and ocean tides, and a coupling of this forecast with a mapping of the vulnerability of exposed populations.
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Bangladesh, India
Band-SOS Bengal Delta
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.
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Gabon
TropiSCO 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.
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Guiana Shield
TropiSCO Amazonia
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.
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Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
MIGR-SAFE
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.
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Mato Grosso, Brazil
CHOVE-CHUVA
The CHOVE-CHUVA project aims to develop a tool for monitoring territorial dynamics in Mato Grosso, in the Brazilian Amazon. This service will provide simple indicators on the evolution of climate and land use variables. Citizen data on the perception of climate change and on the location of rational land use practices will also be collected.
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French Guiana, South America
OpHySE
The OpHySE (Operational Hydrology from Space and modEls) project aims to set up a platform for real-time monitoring of the state of rivers and to assist navigation in a context of climate change. It will be declined on all the catchment areas of the territory of Guyana as a demonstration.
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French Polynesia
TAHATAI Polynesia
TAHATAI 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 will be integrated within a new generation digital platform, called "horizontal".
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New Caledonia
TAHATAI New Caledonia
TAHATAI 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 will be integrated within a new generation digital platform, called "horizontal".
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France
SCOlive
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.
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France
BOSCO Brittany
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.
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France
Eo4MountainPastoralism
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.
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France
SPACE4IRRIG PACA
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 will provide 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.
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France
SPACE4IRRIG Tarn
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 will provide 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.
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France
EagleHedges Pyrenees-Gascony
Hedges are excellent levers for the resilience of territories to climate change and for the maintenance of biodiversity. EagleHedges aims to develop tools for monitoring and characterizing the hedgerow network from satellite images, in order to contribute to the National Monitoring System of hedgerows and to the programs Planting hedges, Label Haie and Label Bas Carbone.
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North Africa
IRRISAT-MOROCCO
IRRISAT-MAROC aims to implement a system to help optimize irrigation water using satellite data. It is based on two complementary approaches to the estimation of plant water consumption and needs, which will be combined in order to propose results at the scales of the agricultural plot, the irrigated sector and the watershed.
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Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France
ORION
The ORION project aims to deliver indicators derived from satellite imagery to biodiversity managers and stakeholders for an emblematic mountain region: the Chamonix valley. Data from Sentinel-2 imagery, botanical surveys and camera traps will be combined to assess the consequences of shrub expansion on mountain plant diversity and habitat use by large herbivores.
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Haiti, Caribbean
GADE LAPLI
At the cutting edge of space technology, this project will provide indicators and services using satellite data to estimate rainfall and flood zones. In the very vulnerable territory of Haiti, the operational objective (warning, crisis management) also serves the knowledge of climate change by identifying and characterizing extreme events.
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France
QUANTICA Occitania
QUANTICA 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.
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South Pacific
EO4DroughtMonitoring New Caledonia
EO4DroughtMonitoring is a farm management and institutional decision support tool. The system is capable of assessing 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.
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Martinique, West Indies
SAMTool-Alert
SAMTool-Alert is a monitoring and diagnostic tool for the efficient management of sargassum seaweed arrivals in coastal areas.
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French Southern and Antarctic Territories
CARTOVEGE
The Cartovege project proposes to develop a decision support tool for the conservation of flora and the preservation of habitats on the Crozet and Kerguelen archipelagos, by combining vegetation mapping and predictive modeling of changes that may affect it via satellite and field data.
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France
ADOPT
ADOPT 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.
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Burkina Faso, Afrique
Stock Water Burkina Faso
Dams 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.
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Tunisia
Stock Water Tunisia
Dams 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.
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Laos
Stock Water Laos
Dams 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.
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Mexico, Central America
MexiCorn
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.
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India
Stock Water India
Dams 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.
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France
Green Urban Sat Grand Nancy
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.
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China
OpenGCS
OpenGCS 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.
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Central Vietnam
VIET-ARRO
VIET-ARRO is developing a demonstrator of a recovery observatory in response to periods of intense cyclonic activity impacting food security in Vietnam. The project will supply managers with information.
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Myanmar
ClimHealth Yangon
The ClimHealth project aims to integrate climate and environmental information from satellites into health surveillance systems to develop early warning and guide disease control. After the development of a prototype on leptospirosis in Myanmar, ClimHealth will produce an application for the DHIS2 information system, which is widely used around the world.
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France
ARBOCARTO-v2 Mainland France
The 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.
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Vietnam
Vimesco-Rice
Domestic rice production in Vietnam is under threat as a result of climate change, flooding, droughts of increasing frequency, duration and intensity, and saltwater intrusion. The objective of this project is to provide users in Vietnam with a demonstrator of operational tools for the dynamic monitoring of rice crops using radar-based remote sensing data.
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France
EDUCSCO
EDUCSCO 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.
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Reunion Island
ARBOCARTO-v2 La Réunion
ARBOCARTO V2 is an application initially intended for health actors, allowing to target the places where a risk of abundance of mosquitoes, vectors of human arboviroses, is very high, in order to orient the actions of social mobilization of fight against vector and to adjust the actions of the field teams to the neighborhoods at risk.
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West Indies
ARBOCARTO-v2 Martinique
ARBOCARTO V2 is an application initially intended for health actors, allowing to target the places where a risk of abundance of mosquitoes, vectors of human arboviroses, is very high, in order to orient the actions of social mobilization of fight against vector and to adjust the actions of the field teams to the neighborhoods at risk.
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Sénégal
OSS Saint Louis
This project concerns the Saint-Louis coastline, which is particularly vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding. The aim is 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.
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South America
MANGROVES Guyane
The 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.
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Caribbean
MANGROVES Antilles
The 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.
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Madagascar
MANGROVES Madagascar
The 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.
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France
LITTOSCOPE Gâvres
The LITTOSCOPE project involves developing a tool that will use satellite data (high-resolution stereo imagery, altimetry), to identify flooding risks in coastal areas taking account of the average sea level rise and extreme events, and to assess the socio-economic risk for the region.
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France
LITTOSCOPE Palavas-Les-Flots - Greater Montpellier Area
The LITTOSCOPE project involves developing a tool that will use satellite data (high-resolution stereo imagery, altimetry), to identify flooding risks in coastal areas taking account of the average sea level rise and extreme events, and to assess the socio-economic risk for the region.
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Central Africa
ECLAT Lake Chad
The objective of the ECLAT project is to provide automated decision support tools based on satellite observation imagery for observing, assessing and predicting the impacts of climate change in the Lake Chad region. The monitoring indicators will focus on natural and urban environments, linked to the dynamics of Lake Chad water resources and socio-economic data.
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France
FLAUDE Aude
FLAude aims at better understand extreme hydrometeo phenomena and elaborate indicators for prevention & risk reduction, adapted to local decision makers use 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 tools.
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Spain
FloodDAM Ebro
The FloodDAM 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.
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France
FloodDAM Seine
The FloodDAM 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.
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USA
FloodDAM Mississipi
The FloodDAM 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.
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France
FloodDAM Garonne
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.
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France
THERMOCITY Montpellier
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.
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France
THERMOCITY Strasbourg
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.
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France
THERMOCITY Toulouse
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.
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France
THERMOCITY Paris
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.
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France
THERMOCITY Marseille
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.
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Région Occitanie (France)
SCO FrichesAgricoles
France
MEO-Climate Gers
Laos, Cambodge, Vietnam
TropiSCO South East Asia
France
C-MONITOR France
Thaïland
SatLCZ Rayong
France
SatLCZ Lille
India
PODCAST-Demo
Australia
Monitoring the Gold Coast
France
City Explorer
France
FLAUDE Occitania
France
FLAUDE Eastern Pyrenees
China
HABITAT Yangtze
Brazil
Band-SOS Amazon Delta
Bangladesh, India
Band-SOS Bengal Delta
Gabon
TropiSCO Africa
Guiana Shield
TropiSCO Amazonia
Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
MIGR-SAFE
Mato Grosso, Brazil
CHOVE-CHUVA
French Guiana, South America
OpHySE
French Polynesia
TAHATAI Polynesia
New Caledonia
TAHATAI New Caledonia
France
SCOlive
France
BOSCO Brittany
France
Eo4MountainPastoralism
France
SPACE4IRRIG PACA
France
SPACE4IRRIG Tarn
France
EagleHedges Pyrenees-Gascony
North Africa
IRRISAT-MOROCCO
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France
ORION
Haiti, Caribbean
GADE LAPLI
France
QUANTICA Occitania
South Pacific
EO4DroughtMonitoring New Caledonia
Martinique, West Indies
SAMTool-Alert
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
CARTOVEGE
France
ADOPT
Burkina Faso, Afrique
Stock Water Burkina Faso
Tunisia
Stock Water Tunisia
Laos
Stock Water Laos
Mexico, Central America
MexiCorn
India
Stock Water India
France
Green Urban Sat Grand Nancy
China
OpenGCS
Central Vietnam
VIET-ARRO
Myanmar
ClimHealth Yangon
France
ARBOCARTO-v2 Mainland France
Vietnam
Vimesco-Rice
France
EDUCSCO
Reunion Island
ARBOCARTO-v2 La Réunion
West Indies
ARBOCARTO-v2 Martinique
Sénégal
OSS Saint Louis
South America
MANGROVES Guyane
Caribbean
MANGROVES Antilles
Madagascar
MANGROVES Madagascar
France
LITTOSCOPE Gâvres
France
LITTOSCOPE Palavas-Les-Flots - Greater Montpellier Area
Central Africa
ECLAT Lake Chad
France
FLAUDE Aude
Madagascar
FloodDAM Betsiboka
Spain
FloodDAM Ebro
France
FloodDAM Seine
USA
FloodDAM Mississipi
France
FloodDAM Garonne
France
THERMOCITY Montpellier
France
THERMOCITY Strasbourg
France
THERMOCITY Toulouse
France
THERMOCITY Paris
France
THERMOCITY Marseille