Thursday 27th of May 2021, 16:00-17:00 CEST The digital economy is not so much shaking up many sectors as fundamentally changing them! The result is the emergence of new, innovative business models and new opportunities for those able to embrace the change. The insurance sector is no different and a new approach is being developed

10 May 2021 Today, ESA together with the operational and technical support of EURISY, launched its Global Space Markets Challenge. This competition is intended to be a springboard into international markets for small promising space-based companies in Europe, specialised in upstream and downstream activities. Developments within small European companies continue to advance Europe’s expertise in technologies, create

As a part of VITO, an independent leading research and service center, VITO Remote Sensing offers Earth observation expertise, data and services, and tailor-made image processing solutions  to provide insights for public and private organizations, and for a wide range of applications including  agriculture, land use / land cover, water & coast, climate, security and

As a part of VITO, an independent leading research and service center, VITO Remote Sensing offers Earth observation expertise, data and services, and tailor-made image processing solutions  to provide insights for public and private organizations, and for a wide range of applications including  agriculture, land use / land cover, water & coast, climate, security and

The European Green Deal is an ambitious plan to decarbonise the EU economy by 2050, revolutionise the EU’s energy system, profoundly transform the economy and inspire efforts to combat climate change. Amongst its many facets, it has a strong dimension for sustainable agriculture (food security) called “farm to fork” as well as a strong focus on urbanisation. The Green Deal has strong geopolitical implications in many policy areas including working with others to achieve global goals.

By Sandra Cabrera Alvarado & Geoff Sawyer How can we help the media get better use of EO in its progressive use? This was the main question raised by Geoff while opening this EO Cafe. Since the launch of Landsat (1972) followed by SPOT (1986), EO has been used as a tool by journalists to show the readers of the

Delivering 12 TB of space data per day, Copernicus is the world’s largest space data provider. This high volume presents a serious challenge to analysts. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming an indispensable and ubiquitous tool for growth and innovation. In this context, the EU-funded AI4Copernicus project will bridge the EU AI on-demand platform AI4EU with Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) platforms to allow innovative players to break new ground. The project will organise, fund and support four open calls for SMEs, facilitating the development of novel, useful and ethical-by-design[1] artificial intelligence innovations (8 small-scale experiments and 9 larger-scale use-cases).

EO is in the News! Promoting Global News This week‘s EOcafe will take us into the world of media and communications! In the early days of satellite Earth Observation, it seemed that the main use of the images coming from Landsat and SPOT was to show the readers of main-stream media (MSM) views of the

Every year during our anniversary cocktail EARSC gives out EARSC Awards to companies in the Earth Observation sector in 4 different categories. The first and longest running award is the Company Award where we recognize the company considered in that year to have made a significant contribution to the development of the EO Services sector in Europe (applications open in

By Sandra Cabrera Alvarado & Geoff Sawyer The European Commission has set out an ambitious goal with its 6 priorities in its own 5-year plan (2019 – 2024). The Green Deal has the objective that Europe becomes the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 by making its economy sustainable. How can the EO industry play a

Playing games is an extremely old pastime but digital gaming – which is what is generally understood by the term – is new. Whilst gaming is big business, the imaginary world of games may not seem the obvious place to take real images of the Earth. But for a few companies, it is and there is some very interesting business going on to bring these two worlds together.

GeoVille GmbH is private sector enterprise and a leader in satellite based environmental monitoring dedicated to providing value-added services related to Earth observation data and Geographic Information Systems. In order to strengthen their team they are looking for two positions: a motivated Project Manager (m/f/d) and Senior Expert for Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Services (m/f/d).

Each year, EARSC publishes a report looking at the companies in the EO services sector including the number of employees working within the sector. This represents only a part of the total employment as there is a strong resource in public sector agencies. Hence, we were challenged to put a figure to the total employment in all categories of employer both public and private, commercial and academic. Thus, the EARSC EO sector employment survey is the first report providing an estimate of the total number of Earth Observation (EO) employees throughout Europe, including both the public and private sector. Building upon two previous EARSC surveys, this study provides a more detailed picture of the employment in the Earth Observation field.

At EARSC we would like to celebrate the International Women's Day on the 8th of March promoting our female colleagues in the Earth Observation industry and our female EARSC members.

In the EOCafe, “where the EO Community meet”, our subject for discussion had a more applications driven focus. This time it was dedicated to the use of EO information for the raw materials sector. “Raw materials” includes mining but also other means of extraction and even recycling as a means for production. Although, for the EO community, it could be obvious that EO data/information is useful for mining companies in several of its stages of operations, (from the exploration phase, environmental assessment & permits, to design, operations, mine closure and aftercare), for the mining sector there is still a long way to go for this relationship to succeed.

The EU has defined 6 priorities for the period 2019 to 2024 to which has been added the Recovery Plan from the COVID-19 crisis. These are driving the budget debate which should end shortly with adoption of the 2021 to 2028 budget in the European Parliament. In the EOcafe, we have previously addressed the budget and the space programme but now, under the current discussions, how are these priorities helping to shape the future of space in Europe?