Preserving the bocage network

Hedgerows are excellent levers for the resilience of territories to climate change and for maintaining biodiversity. EagleHedges has developed operational tools for monitoring and characterizing the bocage network using Earth observation images 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. The project team is working to extend the tool to other territories and, as new needs arise, to extend its functionalities.

🟢 HedgeTools, the hedge characterization tool, is available as an open-source QGIS plugin.

🔵 Automatic hedge detection service available on request.

Identify and visualize agricultural wasteland

The Izifriche solution is a comprehensive support service for the identification and visualization of agricultural wasteland, aimed at local players wishing to act for the resilience of their territory.

Developed as part of the SCO FrichesAgricoles project, the method for automated identification of wasteland is based on the use of geographical and satellite data analyzed by the WaSaBI ©CNES software's Artificial Intelligence, at the scale of the entire Occitanie region (France). The parcel data from the regional inventory of wasteland is used in a web interface equipped with numerous geographic databases, providing a global vision of the issues at stake at different territorial scales (commune, inter-commune, département).

🔵 Service marketed by Safer Occitanie from June 2024.

A tool for characterising, monitoring and forecasting drought on a regional scale

An information display and distribution platform developed by InSight, the indicators put in place provide institutions with an objective, up-to-date, spatialized and temporal response to the drought phenomenon.

Developed in New Caledonia, the tool also helps farmers to manage their crops in a rational way, by enabling them to monitor the situation as closely as possible, in line with environmental conditions and changes in them.  InSight is now working on extending the tool to other territories and extending its functionalities.

🔵 EO4DM is a commercial service and requires an account and password.

Supporting the transformation of rural areas

The fruit of the Meo-Climate project, MEOSS offers 3 web mapping interfaces:

• AgriPractice, whose indicators help decision-makers to implement measures to adapt to agricultural soil erosion;
• WaterReserve, which centralises a panel of indicators dedicated to intra- and inter-annual monitoring of water surfaces;
• Meo-GreenEnergy, a tool for detecting and optimising the siting of photovoltaic panels.

🔵 Marketed services, accessible by account and password.

Monitoring tropical deforestation

The Tropisco platform provides a near-real-time view of tropical deforestation from 2018 to the present day. Its maps of forest cover loss are updated every 6 to 12 days using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite.

Aiming for global coverage, Tropisco currently monitors the forests of 7 countries (French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Gabon, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia), which were used to develop the tool.

🟢 Free access

Monitoring territorial dynamics

Developed in the Mato-Grosso region (Brazilian Amazon), the Chove-Chuva demonstrator offers a map-based summary of the territorial dynamics observed in relation to the adaptation and mitigation strategies put in place.

Using multisource data, the tool can produce a 'dashboard' of the territorial situation for an area predefined by a user, based on synthetic indicators covering 4 major themes: climate (rainfall), forest cover, water (hydrology) and agriculture (surface area and practices).

🟢 Free access

Hydrometeorological monitoring and forecasting

Operational in French Guiana since June 2023, the SAGUI platform offers a hydrological forecasting service based on space altimetry data to monitor river conditions in real time and help with navigability.

In this interface, the fruit of the OpHySE project, the results are displayed on a global map with a coloured representation of the state of the rivers (flows and flow anomalies - i.e. deviations from normal), and several navigation tabs provide differentiated views of the hydro-meteorological indicators flow, rain and air quality.

🟢 Free access

Improving coastal governance

Developed by the company BlueCham on Tahiti and a Tuamotu atoll (Tahatai project), the QVX-PF platform offers new digital resources for the governance of the coastal zone, a privileged place for exchanges between land and sea parties. The interface displays three indicators: water quality, anthropogenic pressures in the lagoon environment (including automatic boat detection) and anthropogenic pressures on the coastline (land use).

Development is continuing through the Tahatai Neo project to deploy the system throughout Polynesia and then internationally.

🔵 Commercialised service, access to QVX-PF requires an account and password.

An olive tree observatory, a bioindicator of climate change

SCOLive has set up an observatory to better understand the conditions under which olive tree diseases appear and to anticipate treatments. In doing so, it uses changes in the condition of trees as a marker of climate change.

As a community project, it relies on a mobile application that provides geolocated, time-stamped information. The whole system has great potential for geographical expansion.

🟢 Free access

Satellite surface soil moisture

Developed in Brittany, where geology makes water supply dependent on surface water, BOSCO lays the foundations for a spatial observatory of soil water content.

The interface displays three key pieces of information at very high spatial resolution (plot) and temporal resolution (2-3 days), which are crucial for farmers and water managers: surface moisture (first 5 cm of soil), root water content (one metre deep) and recharge (or water flow) towards the water table.

🟢 Free access

Monitoring irrigated plots and their crop rotation

MEO-Irrigation is a web mapping interface that can be used to extract quantitative indicators to monitor crop irrigation and assess the total surface area irrigated in order to anticipate water requirements and tensions. Working with Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical data at plot level, the system aggregates its data to produce statistics and analyses at commune, canton and even catchment level.

MEO-Irrigation thus completes the MEOSS WaterManagement range of services.

🔵 A commercial service, access requires an account and password.

Creating global monitoring of the load on hydraulic dams

An automated satellite-based solution, the Stock Water platform calculates water volumes and the filling rate of dams. It enables inter-annual comparisons and provides a regional water balance report. It currently displays the results of 110 reservoirs monitored for its development over a three-year period.

The DEM-based bathymetry estimator is published under an open source licence.

🟢 Free access

Climate and environmental monitoring for early health warnings 

As many diseases are strongly linked to their environment, monitoring environmental and climatic dynamics can help predict their dynamics in space and time.

ClimHealth, an online early warning system, is a generic interface that can be adapted to any location, making it possible to visualize possible links between temporal and spatial epidemiological dynamics and those of rainfall, temperature or environmental indicators (such as water, vegetation or humidity indicators).

🟢 Free access. The codes for the application and the Sen2Chain processing chain are open source.

Developed for a single disease, leptospirosis in Yangon (Myanmar), the first demonstrator LeptoYangon can also be viewed online.

Predictive mapping of Aedes mosquito population densities

Aimed at Regional Health Agencies (ARS) and mosquito control operators, the Arbocarto-V2 application generates predictive maps of the abundance of Aedes albopictus or aegypti mosquitoes in a given area, depending on the user's choice, and can be used to simulate different prevention or control scenarios.

The tool is accompanied by a user manual and a methodological guide for creating or updating environmental data from satellite images.

🟢 Arbocarto is free software in .exe format, and can be requested from the Ministry of Health, which owns the tool, using the form available here. 

Dynamic monitoring of rice crops

Entirely based on radar imagery, the VietSCO platform, the result of the Vimesco-rice and Viet-ARRO projects, offers a set of maps to support the resilience of rice growing in Vietnam in the face of climate change phenomena.

It provides seasonal maps of rice cultivation and annual intensity, maps of flood extent and duration, and projections of land suitability for rice cultivation under different climate change scenarios.

🟢 Free access

Improving resilience to extreme hydro-meteorological events

Developed as part of the FLAude project, FORO uses satellite observation to improve the resilience of areas to the risks of flooding caused by intense run-off.

A genuine decision-making tool, FORO offers interactive maps to pinpoint problem areas and the levers for action. FORO is gradually being rolled out across the 23 departments of the Mediterranean Arc.

🟢 Free access to results for the Aude department