EARSC, European EO Start Up Award 2021 Description: We are pleased to announce the 2021 European EO Start Up Award. EARSC Secretariat is rewarding a start-up that is less than 5 years old, show growth in revenues and/or personnel growth and finally good and coherent promotion of the company and its products. Nomination’s schedule: All

Following the great success of previous years, EARSC is pleased to announce the 2021 European EO Services Company Award. The name of the winner will be revealed at the EARSC General Assembly in June The candidates will be judged against the following criteria: • Has successfully developed EO services for a target market (sector or geographic) • Has made a strong contribution to a defining European programme (eg. Copernicus, Inspire, ESA projects, etc) • Has exhibited good revenue and/or employment growth.

In our previous Policy Blog, The European Partnership on Horizon Europe, we outlined the relevance of the European partnerships for the EO services industry. As we know, 10 candidates’ partnerships[1] exist in the Digital, Industry and Space area.

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).

Bats usually don’t have much of a positive public image. Considered to be bloodthirsty beasts, these small flying mammals are more terrifying than inspiring most people. But without them, our DynaCrop service wouldn’t be able to monitor soil moisture conditions in any field in the world. There are several situations when both people and animals cannot see

Remote sensing for Agriculture! A history with a bright future Supporting land and infrastructure management with CropSAR Kick off Eurostat INCA 2021-2023 ecosystem accounting Water-ForCE: shaping water component for the future Copernicus services

Playing games is a 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. One way, the most obvious (perhaps) is to use EO images as a backdrop for the game. This is the case with the Microsoft Flight Simulator which we understand is now using Sentinel-2 data to provide the terrain over which the aircraft is flying.

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