Prepared by: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Davide Consoli (OpenGeoHub), Marina Bagić (FER), Luca Brocca (CNR) and Martin Herold (GFZ) AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology, with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (the fastest growing app ever) and similar, is now a buzz: a new technological jump of the human race, but potentially a…

Prepared by: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Carson Ross (OpenGeoHub) and Valentina Delconte (OpenGeoHub) One of the key objectives of the largest government-run Earth Observation missions such as Copernicus Europe, Landsat and similar is to provide reference scientific information to enable monitoring of our changing environment across borders (and beyond visible light!)…

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: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub), Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub), Luca Brocca (CNR), Gregory Duveiller (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Martin Herold (GFZ), Santiago Ferrer (Vizzuality) OEMC project was kick-started in June 2022. The first six months of the project were used to build a detailed implementation plan outlined in this document…

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…