Earth Observation applications forclimate change adaptation & mitigation
Revealing the Role of GEOSS as the Default Digital Portal for Building Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation Applications
H2020 project EIFFEL is a game changer in the domain of climate change adaptation and mitigation by harvesting the benefits of the GEOSS data. The project will offer to the Earth Observation community the ground-breaking capacity of exploiting existing GEOSS datasets and will also build upon prior knowledge, with minimal new data collection activities. Added-value services interoperable with GEOSS will be designed, using cognitive search and metadata augmentation tools based on Artificial Intelligence, including Natural Language Processing. These tools will leverage advanced cognitive features to extract meaningful information from and enrich GEOSS metadata.
Our goals
Exploit the untapped potential of available GEOSS datasets, i.e. satellite, in-situ, modelling, crowd-sourced, by creating AI-based cognitive search tools;
Leverage techniques of Explainable AI to develop tangible indicators for Climate Change impacts;
Contribute to GEO’s new infrastructural feature, the GEO Knowledge Hub, a digital repository providing access to knowledge needed to build GEOSS-driven applications;
Foster the co-design of Climate Change adaptation and mitigation applications by bringing onboard the decision makers who are working towards the Paris Agreement goals at local, regional and national scales;
Develop, using co-creation, a set of Climate Change adaptation and mitigation applications in different and quite diverse GEO Societal Benefit Areas, in order to demonstrate the project innovations.
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Things That Matter
Paris Agreement
UNITED NATIONS
The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
Sendai Framework
UNITED NATIONS
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven targets and four priorities for action.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
UNITED NATIONS
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
ORGANISATION
GEO is a partnership of more than 100 national governments and in excess of 100 Participating Organizations that envisions a future where decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations.
EuroGEO
INITIATIVE
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
Copernicus
AGENCY
Europe's eyes on Earth
Looking at our planet and its environment
For the ultimate benefit
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EIFFEL X CIROCCO | A synergy towards combating climate change
Two H2020 projects with a common goal to combat climate change joined forces on the 20 th -21 st of April 2023, on the occasion of the CiROCCO kick-off meeting and exchanged knowledge with a view to identify future collaboration....
EIFFEL at the International Building Decarbonization 2022 Conference
EIFFEL project had a powerful participation at the International Building Decarbonization 2022 Conference that was held, for the first time, on November 5-7, in Athens, Greece....
Article: New approach for climate risk assessment supports decision-making under uncertainty
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EIFFEL at the American Geophysical Union 2022 (AGU22)
Our partner Open Universiteit had an impressive presence at the American Geophysical Union 2022 (AGU22) that was held on the 12th – 16th of December 2022, in Chicago....
An elevated EIFFEL presence at the EuroGEO Workshop 2022
An elevated EIFFEL presence at the EuroGEO Workshop 2022, held in Greece (7-9 December) from a highly promising H2020 project committed to tackle climate change!...
EIFFEL at ICAT 2022 | International Conference on Applied Technologies
Our EIFFEL partner Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) participated at ICAT 2022 | International Conference on Applied Technologies that was held on the 24 th of November, 2022 at the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas “ESPE” in Quito, Ecuador....
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