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Desert locust monitoring in East-Africa
  • Crop monitoring ,
  • Desert Locust ,
  • ESA GDA ,
  • crop damage mapping

Desert locust monitoring in East-Africa

By Roel Van Hoolst 30.05.2023
The desert locust is one of the most destructive pests in the world. A small swarm can contain 80 million locusts and cause widespread damage to crops and..
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Recent trends in Earth Observation for agro-insurance
  • Agriculture ,
  • Index insurance ,
  • agro-insurance ,
  • EO4I

Recent trends in Earth Observation for agro-insurance

By Roel Van Hoolst 19.01.2023

With a rapidly changing climate, agro-insurance has become a very complex business. As we witness more and more extreme weather conditions including..

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Transition to a sustainable planet through Natural Capital Accounting
  • Biodiversity ,
  • SDG's ,
  • Geospatial ,
  • Natural Capital Accounting ,
  • Ecosystem services

Transition to a sustainable planet through Natural Capital Accounting

By Bruno Smets 16.01.2022
Our economy and our human well-being highly depend on nature and its “services”. Longley, we underestimated these services, but the recent COVID-19..
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WorldCereal, mapping global agriculture at field scale
  • Agriculture ,
  • Crop monitoring ,
  • ESA ,
  • worldcereal ,
  • crop mapping

WorldCereal, mapping global agriculture at field scale

By Sven Gilliams 16.11.2020

ESA’s WorldCereal project aims to develop an efficient, agile and robust EO based system for timely global crop monitoring at field scale. This is a huge..

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Annual 100 m land cover maps on a global scale!
  • Land use ,
  • PROBA-V ,
  • Copernicus ,
  • vegetation

Annual 100 m land cover maps on a global scale!

By Marcel Buchhorn 09.09.2020
At the beginning of 2020, we already showed you how we use PROBA-V observations to map annual land cover changes. After sharing these promising annual..
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A first look at historical land cover changes over the Sahel
  • Land use ,
  • Copernicus ,
  • global land cover ,
  • UTURN

A first look at historical land cover changes over the Sahel

By Niels Souverijns 17.06.2020
For those who already know us or follow us for quite some time it is no big surprise, we have a big interest and expertise in global land cover monitoring..
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Palm tree mapping using deep learning on aerial images
  • Agriculture ,
  • EO Data ,
  • deep learning ,
  • AI ,
  • Red Palm Weevil

Palm tree mapping using deep learning on aerial images

By Maria Culman Forero 12.05.2020

When thinking of palm trees, most people start dreaming of beautiful beaches or stunning locations. But besides this ornamental aspect, palm trees also..

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End of PROBA-V’s operational lifetime! What’s next?
  • PROBA-V ,
  • global land cover ,
  • vegetation ,
  • Sentinel-3

End of PROBA-V’s operational lifetime! What’s next?

By Dennis Clarijs 09.04.2020

Unfortunately, all good stories come to an end, even so for PROBA-V.  What started as a “gap-filler” mission between SPOT-VEGETATION and the Sentinel-3..

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Copernicus global land cover maps now available in Google Earth Engine
  • land cover ,
  • global land cover ,
  • land cover viewer ,
  • Google Earth Engine

Copernicus global land cover maps now available in Google Earth Engine

By Marcel Buchhorn 04.02.2020

Since its release, the Copernicus Global Land Cover maps have raised interest for applications in different fields. But downloading these products to your..

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Towards mapping annual land cover changes
  • Land use ,
  • Copernicus ,
  • land cover ,
  • land cover viewer

Towards mapping annual land cover changes

By Marcel Buchhorn 07.01.2020

In May 2019, at the ESA Living Planet Symposium, we released the first Global Land Cover Layers, at 100 m resolution (for the year 2015) in the context of..

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Natural Capital Accounting to protect ecosystem services
  • Biodiversity ,
  • SDG's ,
  • ecosystem ,
  • Natural Capital Accounting

Natural Capital Accounting to protect ecosystem services

By Bruno Smets 18.11.2019

Economic progress has been measured via Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for decades. However, most environmental elements are not recorded in these public or..

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Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East
  • Agriculture ,
  • land cover ,
  • irrigation ,
  • FAO ,
  • WaPOR

Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East

By Laurent Tits 17.06.2019

Did you know that agriculture is responsible for up to 70% of all water withdrawals in the world? With water becoming more scarce, making every drop count..

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Time to release the new and improved land cover maps
  • Land use ,
  • PROBA-V ,
  • Copernicus ,
  • land cover ,
  • fractional covers

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

By Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019

Whether you're active in agricultural monitoring, studying climate change impact or even modelling green energy installations, there’s an important..

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PROBA-V data for timely livestock management in Namibia
  • Agriculture ,
  • PROBA-V ,
  • cattle management ,
  • land cover

PROBA-V data for timely livestock management in Namibia

By Cornelis van der Waal 06.09.2018

Namibia is the most arid country in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the high variability in rainfall there is widely fluctuating forage production from..

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EO data for agricultural insurance
  • Agriculture ,
  • EO Data ,
  • food security ,
  • Index insurance ,
  • SDG's

EO data for agricultural insurance

By Francesco Rispoli 06.03.2018

Tonight at dinner you might not think about poverty, hunger, and poor nutrition, but unfortunately that’s not the case for one in nine people in the..

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Cape Town waiting for Day Zero
  • Remote Sensing ,
  • Water & coast ,
  • Climate ,
  • Land use ,
  • Cities

Cape Town waiting for Day Zero

By Dirk Van Speybroeck 09.02.2018

Recent news on the situation of the South African metropolis Cape Town underlines the gravity of drought as one of the most destructive environmental..

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Supporting food security from space
  • Time series ,
  • Agriculture ,
  • Multitemporal image analysis ,
  • PROBA-V ,
  • Sentinel-2 ,
  • food security

Supporting food security from space

By Erwin Goor 15.12.2017

For a food secure world, agriculture needs to get digital, i.e. we need “smart” agriculture to ensure food for all. Combining and analyzing this “Big..

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How EO data is used for humanitarian response
  • Remote Sensing ,
  • Agriculture ,
  • PROBA-V ,
  • EO Data

How EO data is used for humanitarian response

By Alex Merkovic-Orenstein 01.12.2017
VITO Remote Sensing distributes processed Earth Observation data to users worldwide. In this blog, we are giving the word to Action Contre La Faim (ACF)..
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Land cover maps tailored to your needs
  • Climate ,
  • Land use ,
  • Image Processing ,
  • EO Data ,
  • Copernicus

Land cover maps tailored to your needs

By Marcel Buchhorn 16.11.2017

Static land cover maps are often hard to use in different applications. But with a wide range of user groups, we need more elastic land cover mapping..

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Monitoring water use in agriculture from space
  • Remote Sensing ,
  • Land use ,
  • Agriculture ,
  • EO Data

Monitoring water use in agriculture from space

By Laurent Tits 16.10.2017
Agriculture is one of the main water users in the world. In order to achieve food security in the future, it is essential that the water resources are..
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Africa mapped in unprecedented detail
  • Time series ,
  • Data harmonisation ,
  • Land use ,
  • Biodiversity

Africa mapped in unprecedented detail

By Bruno Smets 21.09.2017
Land is an essential natural resource for humanity and all terrestrial ecosystems, but human demands exceed available resources. This leads to..
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