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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Successful double participation for EIFFEL at the EC-ESA Joint Earth System Science Initiative event
EIFFEL Pilot 3: Infrastructure & Transport Management and Pilot 5: Disaster Resilience > Drought, forest fire & pest risk assessment were successfully presented during the EC-ESA Joint Earth System Science Initiative event....
EIFFEL at Big Data From Space 2023
Our EIFFEL partner ICCS participated in Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS), an in-person conference that was held from 6 to 9 November, at the Austria Center (Vienna)....
EIFFEL's response to Earth’s call for action at GEO Week 2023 & Ministerial Summit
EIFFEL’s Pilot 4: Sustainable Urban Development Local in response to Earth’s call for action participated in the GEO Week 2023 & Ministerial Summit held at Cape Town, South Africa, from 6-10 November 2023....
EIFFEL at the 5th edition of the PIANC Mediterranean Days and the 13th French conference "Port of the Future"
Our Eiffel partner Balearic Port Authority (BPA) in partnership with two (2) EIFFEL partners Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and PRODEVELOP presented Pilot 3: Infrastructure & Transport Management at the 5th edition of the PIANC Mediterranean Days (26-27 October), which was preceded by the 13th French conference called « Port of the Future » (25-26 October)....
EIFFEL at the Forest Sciences’ Day in Helsinki unlocking the power of disaster resilience
EIFFEL Pilot 5: Disaster Resilience > Drought, forest fire & pest risk assessment was presented by our partner Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) during Forest Sciences’ Day, held on October 25 at the Viikki Campus of the University of Helsinki, in the Forest Sciences Building....
Introducing AI EIFFEL Tools at the Lithuanian Parliament
On October 20 th during the Day of Agriculture, the EIFFEL Project and especially Pilot 2: Sustainable Agriculture National Scale was introduced at the agriculture exhibition, which was organized at the Seimas – the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania by our Partner NPA....
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