Biodiversity and the many ecosystem functions and services it underpins are undergoing significant changes and needs worldwide scientifically rigorous information to monitor their status and trends. Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) capture key constituent components of biodiversity change. The EBV class ‘Species Populations addresses the most...

For the past two decades, the primary source of global fire observations has been NASA’s Terra and Aqua polar-orbiting satellites, which carry the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), followed by the NASA-NOAA Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), but these systems...

This project connects Earth observation experts with epidemiologists and physicians associated with the Malnutrition and Enteric Disease Study (MAL-ED) study of childhood enteric infectious diseases. This objective is to develop a database of relevant climate, hydrology, ecology, and human activity at global gastrointestinal disease study...

Water resources in developing countries are under a constant state of stress. There are pressures of a growing population and diverse needs – agricultural, industrial, personal uses and power generation. This is coupled with degradation of water quality due to industrial waste and agricultural surface...

This project is aimed at providing actionable, science-driven, timely, information on crop conditions, at the global scale, in support of policies, investments and decisions in food security and agricultural markets through the use of Earth Observations (EO) and building on existing monitoring systems. It was...

The project developed a robust end-to-end automatic system to rapidly generate and deliver flood extent maps to responding agencies in 10 GEO member countries and to support the flood modeling community.  This project support 35 disasters events with Flood Proxy Maps - users include: United...

Biodiversity dynamics underpin the regulation and provisioning of many ecosystem services (ES), but ES models used commonly in decision-support tools do not adequately represent the relationships between different levels biodiversity (genes, species, ecosystems) and ES. Most ES tools use land-use/land cover (LULC) as the sole...

The Mapping the Missing Millions project undertook a diverse collection of Earth observation (EO)-based assessments at refugee camps that collectively provide path-breaking insights into settlement dynamics, land cover change, and climate change effects at the world’s refugee camps. The project first examined EO-opportunities for refugee...

Almost all major development problems in Sub-Saharan Africa are water-related: low economic development, low energy production, food insecurity, recurrent droughts, disastrous floods, and poor health conditions. As part of efforts to develop industry and improve the lives of its citizens, Sub-Saharan Africa has embarked on...

Imagine being able to predict streamflow on every river and stream in the world for the next 15 days! With our global streamflow modelling and simulation product and web applications this is now possible. What can be done with these forecasts when they are combined...