Earth Observation applications forclimate change adaptation & mitigation
Revealing the Role of GEOSS as the Default Digital Portal for Building Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation Applications
H2020 project EIFFEL is a game changer in the domain of climate change adaptation and mitigation by harvesting the benefits of the GEOSS data. The project will offer to the Earth Observation community the ground-breaking capacity of exploiting existing GEOSS datasets and will also build upon prior knowledge, with minimal new data collection activities. Added-value services interoperable with GEOSS will be designed, using cognitive search and metadata augmentation tools based on Artificial Intelligence, including Natural Language Processing. These tools will leverage advanced cognitive features to extract meaningful information from and enrich GEOSS metadata.
Our goals
Exploit the untapped potential of available GEOSS datasets, i.e. satellite, in-situ, modelling, crowd-sourced, by creating AI-based cognitive search tools;
Leverage techniques of Explainable AI to develop tangible indicators for Climate Change impacts;
Contribute to GEO’s new infrastructural feature, the GEO Knowledge Hub, a digital repository providing access to knowledge needed to build GEOSS-driven applications;
Foster the co-design of Climate Change adaptation and mitigation applications by bringing onboard the decision makers who are working towards the Paris Agreement goals at local, regional and national scales;
Develop, using co-creation, a set of Climate Change adaptation and mitigation applications in different and quite diverse GEO Societal Benefit Areas, in order to demonstrate the project innovations.
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Things That Matter
Paris Agreement
UNITED NATIONS
The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
Sendai Framework
UNITED NATIONS
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven targets and four priorities for action.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
UNITED NATIONS
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
ORGANISATION
GEO is a partnership of more than 100 national governments and in excess of 100 Participating Organizations that envisions a future where decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations.
EuroGEO
INITIATIVE
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
Copernicus
AGENCY
Europe's eyes on Earth
Looking at our planet and its environment
For the ultimate benefit
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EIFFEL syncing with the city's climate plans
The Municipality of Penteli represents the center of efforts of EIFFEL’s Pilot on Urban Sustainability. Within this framework and following liaison between the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and the Municipality, a technical meeting was arranged, in the Old City Hall of Penteli Municipality in Athens (Greece), on May 5th 2023 between the Mayor, vice-Mayor for Environment and Urban Planning, and the Observatory’s teams that are responsible for the EIFFEL applications ( EIFFEL Pilot 4: Sustainable Urban Development )....
EIFFEL in EGU: 5 powerful participations in 1 flagship conference
5 EIFFEL partners participated in the EGU Conference 2023 that was held in Vienna and online on the 23 rd – 28 th of April 2023. EGU is a yearly European Geoscience Conference and brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. This year the event welcomed almost 15.500 attendees from 107 countries and almost 3.400 joined online from 105 countries. It was a great success with 16.300 presentations given in almost 1000 sessions....
EIFFEL at the NCR (Netherlands Center for River Studies) conference
EIFFEL Pilot 1: Water & Land-Use Management Regional Scale & Cross-border with two intriguing participations in the NCR (Netherlands Center for River Studies) conference held at 12-13 of April 2023, aroused the interest of the event’s attendees for the EIFFEL project....
EIFFEL stakeholder workshop for Water & Land-Use Management
On the 23rd of March our partner IHE Delft organized an online stakeholder workshop for Water and Land-Use Management....
EIFFEL X CIROCCO | A synergy towards combating climate change
Two H2020 projects with a common goal to combat climate change joined forces on the 20 th -21 st of April 2023, on the occasion of the CiROCCO kick-off meeting and exchanged knowledge with a view to identify future collaboration....
EIFFEL at the International Building Decarbonization 2022 Conference
EIFFEL project had a powerful participation at the International Building Decarbonization 2022 Conference that was held, for the first time, on November 5-7, in Athens, Greece....
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