"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton,1675.
One year ago, this week, MEEO launched The ADAM Digital Earth, a revolutionary platform to continue reading
ADAM Platform
Using ADAM and Earth Observation data to spot environmental problemsThe Concept
ADAM
… implements the concept of Digital Earth making global environmental geospatial data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
… provides an effective subsetting functionality that accesses the data only when requested and serves to the client only the data that is really needed.
… exposes OGC-standardised discovery (openSearch) and access (WCS 2.0) interfaces.
Applications
ADAM is a cross-domain application that supports various application fields
Besides the generic data access platform, dedicated interfaces can be developed for specific needs (e.g. on the fly processing capabilities, …)
Agriculture
Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that takes great benefit from geospatial technology. Earth Observation data helps assessing agricultural land use and trends, crop conditions and yield forecasts. It also supports input management, farm management recording and irrigation management. With EO tools it is possible to implement seasonal mapping service of cultivated areas, water management and drought monitoring, as well as subsidy controls.
Within the PREMIA project – Platform for Risk Evaluation and Management in Agriculture, ADAM provides a key contribution in the development of analytical tools for the insurance sector based on Earth Observation and climate data. Within DATABIO project, ADAM supports a pilot dealing with agriculture sector to provide the European farmers community with innovative big data technology solutions including Earth Observation tools and climate data services.
Atmosphere
The Earth´s Atmosphere status influences our daily life, from weather to air quality and radiations. There are so many aspects to deal with that new methods and approaches are continuously developed and updated to manage suck kind of complexity.
ADAM contributes to tackle this challenge providing satellite and geospatial data processing tools to improve the monitoring of atmospheric conditions, to support
weather services in increasing forecast´s accuracy, and to provide the scientific and technical community with advanced solutions for data access, exploitation and download.
Climate Change
The definition of climate change is still not clear, but for the citizens it’s a change in the usual weather conditions found in a place. This could be a change in how much rain a place usually gets in a year; or it could be a change in a place’s usual temperature for a month or season. The causes and effects are both global and local which means that actions made in places far away and during the past have impact right here and right now.
ADAM contributes to the cause of climate resilience improvement in the framework of the Earth Observation for Sustainable development (EO4SD) ESA initiative. In the framework of the PREPARE project, ADAM provides an EO-based data service with specific applications for climate resilience management (user-friendly front-end
for querying a large range of climate-related data and processing them to derive specific added-value reports). With its new features ADAM contributes to achieve the capacity building objectives by granting the user communities and stakeholder involved in the project the opportunity to develop effective training and education programmes and to foster a new economic sector with local start-ups providing innovative climate services.
http://eo4sd.esa.int/files/2018/08/EO4SD_climate_flyer_2018.pdf
Cultural Heritage
The Cultural Heritage represents the historical memory of population and its preservation is fundamental for our identity and for the next generations. The Cultural Heritage needs to be protected and preserved against the climate change and against the political revolutions that consider the Cultural Heritage as a threat. But Cultural Heritage is also a good that needs to be made available to the society in a sustainable way.
Within the HERACLES project ADAM provides climate and atmospheric data responsive systems/solutions for effective resilience of Cultural Heritage against climate change effects. With ADAM the implementation of climate indicators as combination of Earth Observation data and ground measurements has never been easier.
Education
Within the HERACLES project ADAM provides climate and atmospheric data responsive systems/solutions for effective resilience of Cultural Heritage against climate change effects. With ADAM the implementation of climate indicators as combination of Earth Observation data and ground measurements has never been easier.
The EO technology is growing fast and it is a common insight from innovation and technology investors and analyst that the
EO market is still to be exploded and that it could happen in the next years. But, as any new market based on big data, the lack of competencies and of new kind of professionals is the greatest barrier to the growth of this new space economy era.
With ADAM a different model of education can be implemented, skipping the highly demanding data skills and data preparation needs. The usages and the concepts flow easily as well as the examples of the different capability and purposes of EO data. Dealing with remote sensing data, Copernicus data and any other kind of EO data has never been so easy and immediate: with this tool the new user communities approaching big data from space can appreciate the great potential of the data.
Forestry
Accurate spatial information makes it possible to move from classic stand wise forest management to precision forestry, i.e. micro stand level, grid cell level or tree-by-tree management. But, collecting only data is not enough, platforms are also needed to help make sense data to enable better decisions, allowing new data to be easily integrated with existing forest information systems.
ADAM supports the project MADAMES – for the implementation of ecosystem services to make the forest management both profitable and sustainable. The objective is to prevent and mitigate the threatening climate-related risks, by improving the knowledge about which combination of long-lasting or short-duration climatic conditions would influence the forest stands in experiencing vigorous conditions vs. gradual weakening, up to
losing productivity, the carbon sequestration/sink potential of the plant-soil system, as well as other provided services.
With ADAM, the forest ecosystem monitoring can benefit of Earth Observation data, Climate data and Copernicus data to be combined with forest management models.
Public Health
“Urban heat islands, combined with an ageing population and increased urbanisation, are projected to increase the vulnerability of urban populations, especially the poor, to heat-related health impacts in the future,” a US government assessment warned. The Guardian – 13/08/2018
“Tropical disease outbreaks are growing threat in Europe as temperatures rise- After West Nile virus
kills 22 people in heatwave, experts warn of more mosquito and tick-borne diseases due to climate change.” The Guardian – 23/08/2018.
Climate change impact to the human health is a dramatic reality well known not only by climate and health experts. The population, especially that concentrated in urban areas, is exposed to many health consequences due to extreme weather events and it is going to be more exposed in the incoming future.
In 2015 MEEO was the coordinator of the pilot project EOCHA-Earth Observation for Climate-related Health risk in Africa in the framework of the joint initiative EO world 2 between ESA and World Bank. Scope of the project was the implementation of a web portal with basic statistic features to correlate climate conditions and outbreak disease in sub-Saharan zone. After these experiences, MEEO has started working on this topic focusing the attention to those European regions that are more affected by climate – health related issues.
With ADAM it is possible to keep monitored those climate indicators correlated to health risks like temperature and precipitation anomalies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoBQoojOK2M
Data Infrastructure
It has been a common trope that 80% of a data scientist’s valuable time is spent simply finding, cleaning, and organizing data, leaving only 20% to actually perform data analysis. But this is true also for the other kind of EO data users like Geospatial data professional, environmental engineers, economists. Indeed, heterogeneity of data sources and quick access to relevant data are the major infrastructural barriers for a full and effective exploitation of
Earth Observation data. Overcoming those barriers is one of the most crucial challenges in the present and for the next years.
ADAM removes the barriers to any of the geospatial data managed by the platform. With ADAM the multi-source data integration, interoperability and accessing will never be a problem.
Security
Earth Observation can support the security domain in many different ways. ADAM provides a key contribution to the Earth Observation for Sustainable development (EO4SD) initiative dealing with the support to States affected by Fragility, Conflicts and Violence. ADAM delivers to a board of experts near real time data from multiple sources to address the causes and consequences of fragility, conflict and violence as part of an economic and social development strategy as well as support to more standard development activities which are being executed in the higher risk environment of proximity to fragility, conflict or violence.
https://eo4society.esa.int/projects/eo4sd-states-affected-by-fragility-conflict-and-violence/
Planetary Science
In the last decades, space exploration has increased its activity with new and innovative space missions. Currently, several missions aim to explore and land in different planetary bodies, from rather big and close planets to smaller bodies far away and a real intention to come back to the Earth’s Moon for good. ADAM can support in contributing an easy and reliable platform for mission planning and support as well as a platform for
exploring the data produced by those missions. As an example, use case, ADAM can support in characterizing different surface materials as a support for mission planning.
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Get the data
Eodataservice is a distributed platform:
data remains at the data provider premises and are accessed only when requested.
Three types of user interfaces are provided:
→ a web based graphic user interface
→ Jupiter notebook (python console)
→ APIs: OGC-compliant (OpenSearch, WCS2.x) RESTful interfaces
News
The Vegetation for urban green air quality plans (VEG CAP) Life project is kicked-off on Feb. 27 2019 in Bologna, Italy. We are excited to be part of the project helping continue reading
We are getting closer and closer to a massive distribution of Earth Observation data and information extraction. On Feb. 201 2019 ADAM was used to display Sentinel 5P Nitrogen Dioxide continue reading
We are always happy to present big data (cubes) advancements at relevant conferences. BiDS is definitely one of them. At BiDS 2019 ADAM was presented in the DEMO session, to foster continue reading
The first version of the ADAM platform was released on Nov. 13 2018, during the ESA Phi-week event.
It was a great launch event, with the projection of of the ADAM continue reading
Eodataservice has been presented at the Big Data from Space 2017 conference (28 – 30 November 2017, Toulouse, France)
http://www.bigdatafromspace2017.org/
We made more than 40 demos to EO and Big Data experts, continue reading
The eodataservice technology is getting more and more used in various domains to provide fast and reliable access to a large volume and variety of geospatial data, mainly from satellite continue reading
It has been a busy week at EGU 2018 in Vienna, Austria, at the MEEO´s booth where eodataservice has been presented. Scientists as well as decision makers, private companies, teachers continue reading
Eodataservice.org, the platform created by MEEO to offer interoperable environmental data discovery, access, sub-setting, visualisation, processing and download services, finalist of the Big Data Challenge 2017, has been selected to continue reading
Thanks to all of you!
You have been really a lot playing with our little “Christmas Gift”: you have searched places spread all over the world. We traveled together from the continue reading
NEW YORK. Do you remember winter 1983? No? Well, you should, .since that year the Christmas day was the coldest of the last 40 years: -12.8 °C (9°F). The hottest Chrismas? 2015 (15.6°C / continue reading
eodataservice will be presented at the American Geophysical Union – AGU Fall meeting
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/
Join us on – Tuesday, 12 December 2017: 08:45 – 09:00, Morial, 228-230
or visit our poster on – continue reading
Contact
cactus@adamplatform.eu