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 Info Day on Copernicus data & services
More than 80 participants had the opportunity to delve into the EIFFEL project at the info-day on the European Union's Earth Observation Programme " Copernicus "....
EIFFEL at GEO Week 2021
The EIFFEL project was successfully presented during the GEO Week 2021 , on the 25th of November 2021, by Dimitris Bliziotis from ICCS, at the Side Event: Showcasing the EuroGEO Regional Initiative....
EIFFEL & IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
In EIFFEL , IHE Delft Institute will primarily contribute in designing, developing and testing modelling and decision support applications for water and land management, with specific focus on a drought-prone area downstream of the Aa or Weerijs catchments in the Netherlands....
EIFFEL & SYKE Finnish Environment Institute
In EIFFEL , SYKE is responsible for a pilot on disaster resilience and will develop a multi-hazard framework for the risk assessment of droughts, forest fires and forest pests at regional and national levels in Finland....
EIFFEL | First official YouTube intro video is launched!
Our first official YouTube video is launched! Join the journey of 19 partners from 8 European countries with one goal and destination, tackle #ClimateChange...
EIFFEL & Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
EIFFEL partner Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) will contribute to the project by exploiting GEOSS data potential, the biggest observation system on Earth, in order to tackle climate change....
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