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 at an interesting dialogue on data accessibility
Data sharing and data management principles need to be advocated in the EO expanding community. GEO Secretariat is launching a service to raise awareness and highlight their importance....
EIFFEL at 26th MARS Conference
EIFFEL partner i-BEC joined the 26th MARS Conference, held on 12-14 September in Barcelona (Spain), organized by the Joint Research Centre of the EC (JRC), the Spanish Paying agency (FEGA) and the Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of Catalonia (GENCAT)....
EIFFEL Pilot 5 in action | Two workshops one goal!
Our partner, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE organized two online workshops on 4 th and 8 th of April, in order to present EIFFEL Pilot Disaster Resilience: Drought, forest fire & pest risk assessment enhancing project collaboration....
What does climate change mean for your environment? An intriguing interview from Ruben Hage
What does climate change mean for your environment? Ruben Hage, EIFFEL researcher from Open Universiteit, unveils the relevance of the research in the H2020 EIFFEL project within the 5 pilot studies....
EIFFEL at “Air Quality in the Ports” conference showcasing EIFFEL pilot “Infrastructure & Transport Management Regional Scale”
More than 50 people from institutions, public authorities etc. (i.e. BPA, ENAGAS, EMAYA, Consell Mallorca) had the opportunity to delve into the EIFFEL pilot “Infrastructure & Transport Management Regional Scale” at the “Air Quality in the Ports” conference in July 17th organized by Ports de Balears (BPA) in Palma, Spain....
EIFFEL sheds light on "Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Energy Potential at Urban Environments"
Our EIFFEL pilot Sustainable Urban Development had a strong presence with the study entitled “Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Energy Potential at Urban Environments: Application Example for the City of Athens in Greece” that was held on 4 th -8 th of July 2022, in Thessaloniki, Greece....
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