Towards a Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration and Consumptive Use Water Reporting Tool for Canada
Enhancing Water Management in Canada through Advanced Evapotranspiration Monitoring
Canadian Ground Motion Service (C-GMS) for Transportation Infrastructure Monitoring
C-GMS
Satellites improve national reporting of greenhouse gases
With the climate crisis continuing to tighten its grip, nations around the world are making efforts to reduce emissions of climate warming gases. To track action, countries report their greenhouse gas emissions to the UNFCCC – the body responsible for driving global action to combat climate change.
Satellites support latest IPCC climate report
Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature, affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, according to the latest state of the climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published this week.
We explore - you benefit: Health, food, and climate
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet shows how space technologies and research onboard the International Space Station are used for the benefit of people on Earth. In this video, Thomas explains how space research is relevant to three of the United Nation’s goals: Health (SDG3), Zero hunger and food security (SDG2), and Climate action (SDG13).
We explore - you benefit: water and sanitation
Join ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet as he explains the benefits of space exploration technologies and activities for Earth.
ESA tests marine plastic detection in ocean wave facility
Could satellites be able to help track and map the marine plastic waste befouling our oceans? Research teams from across Europe returned to a Netherlands-based ocean wave test facility to try and detect floating plastic. Using a suite of microwave and optical instruments, the researchers are assessing if orbital monitoring of plastic might be practical in the future.
Sentinel-6 returning most precise data ever on sea level
Sea-level rise is one of the most immediate consequences of climate change, as highlighted recently through urgent pleas from leaders of island nations at the COP26 summit. Global measures of sea-level rise are imperative to underpinning global policy and for strategies to protect coastlines and low-lying lands.
Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw
Thawing permafrost in the Arctic is already unleashing methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, exacerbating global temperature rise. As well adding to the climate crisis, this ground, which has been frozen for thousands of years, is becoming unstable and causing serious issues for local communities.
A first for search and rescue from space
Between September 1982 and December 2020, at least 51 512 people were rescued on land and at sea with help from a network of Earth-orbiting satellites able to detect and locate emergency distress beacons.