Prepared by: Carmelo Bonannella (OpenGeoHub), Valentina Delconte (OpenGeoHub), Ichsani Wheeler (OpenGeoHub / EnvirometriX) and Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub / EnvirometriX) The growing interest in climate change and the potential threat it poses have seen an increasing demand for tools and solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems. Forests are part of…

Prepared by: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Ichsani Wheeler (OpenGeoHub), Robert A. McMillan (OpenGeoHub), Kris Deveria (OpenGeoHub), Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub), Chris van Diemen (OpenGeoHub), Valentina Delconte (OpenGeoHub) Land degradation is a systematic loss of function in terrestrial ecosystems: a serious drop in primary productivity, biomass and biodiversity. This means the land produces…

Prepared by: Yu-Feng Ho (OpenGeoHub), Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub) and Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub) Digital Terrain Model or Digital Land Surface Model is a digital raster map representing elevations of terrain / bare surface. NASA’s SRTM DEM used to be one of the most famous environmental layers in early 2000’s. In recent…

Prepared by: Valentina Delconte (OpenGeoHub), Alexander Wowra (Vizzuality), Diego de la Vega (CREAF) How far have women come and what’s left to reach gender parity as we celebrate the eighth International Day of Women and Girls in Science? We asked Sofía Aldabet, data scientist at Vizzuality; Xuemeng Tian, PhD candidate…

Prepared by: Valentina Delconte (OpenGeoHub) and Carmelo Bonannella (OpenGeoHub) Biomes, large communities of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate, are like many living systems dynamic and in constant flux. Recently, there has been an increasing in interest in understanding effects of climate change on biomes of the future…

Prepared by: Carson Ross (OpenGeoHub), Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub), Vasile Crăciunescu (TerraSigna) Data Cubes are highly organised data infrastructures enabling users to run new analyses and generate insights into processes, patterns and trends. In the context of Earth Observation (EO) projects, data cubes are commonly time-series of spatiotemporal…

Prepared by: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub / EnvirometriX), Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub / EnvirometriX), Ichsani Wheeler (OpenGeoHub / EnvirometriX) and Carmelo Bonannella (OpenGeoHub) Soils symbolize fertility and are a foundation of our civilization. There is an increasing focus on soils due to their significant ecosystem services — from growing crops, to filtering…

Prepared by: Valentina Delconte (OpenGeoHub), Insights from OpenGeoHub’s seminar series “Biodiversity: how big is our global biodiversity debt and what can we do about it?” on December 23, 2021. To help us answer the question: “Can nature keep up with human-induced environmental changes and can ecosystem regeneration be enough to…

Prepared by: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub) and Ichsani Wheeler (OpenGeoHub) Samples collected in soil, vegetation science, ecology, geology can be used to build predictive mapping models and produce predictions i.e. maps. Increasingly, Machine Learning methods such Random Forest and similar are used to train models and produce maps…