Our mission
Our Mission is to accelerate impact by fully capitalising on the power of satellite Earth Observation (EO) in international development assistance operations.
Knowledge Hub
Advancing and Building EO knowledge and Capacity (ABC). Extensive and interactive repository of European Earth Observation service capabilities.
MOOC on Satellite Earth Observation for IDA
The Space for International Development Assistance Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), created for the GDA, examines EO’s role in global development with expert insights.
Unveiling the unseen: Opening a window into the wider impact of Space for IDA
This short film captures Indonesia's 2018 disaster recovery with the help of external agencies and Earth Observation technology.
ESA GDA Impact Newsroom- Episode 7: December 2024
In episode 7 of ESA’s GDA Impact Newsroom, discover how Earth Observation is driving sustainable change from urban planning in Kenya to enhancing clean energy in Bangladesh.
ESA GDA Impact Newsroom- Episode 6: September 2024
This episode highlights include ESA meetings with WB and IFAD, Climate Resilience next-gen tool and cases from the Marine and the Fragility, Conflict and Security activities.
The GDA AID Water Resources activity will be launched on 9 February 2023, with the participation of both the ESA GDA team and members from the consortium led by EOMAP (Germany). Water … Read more
The GDA AID Climate Resilience consortium has completed the first prototype of an information product that estimates aboveground biomass in Mozambique forests to support the calculation and monitoring of greenhouse … Read more
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) launched a new mapping exercise on the international efforts using space technologies and applications to support climate adaptation, mitigation, monitoring and … Read more
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) co-organised a workshop on the topic “Using Digitalization to Deliver Climate Resilient Infrastructure”, in Jakarta (Indonesia) on 29 September 2022. Edy Juharsyah, Director of Budget … Read more
IFAD organised a webinar as part of their “Food4Thought Series“, dedicated to Leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), on 7 September 2022. Clement Albergel, Climate Applications … Read more
The UN – Austria Symposium 2022 took place online from the 13th to the 15th of September with the theme “Space for climate action: experiences and best practices in mitigating … Read more
The latest ITT (invitation to tender) released under the GDA programme will implement new EO information developments in direct response to IFI operations requirements for environmental information in the thematic … Read more
From August 8 to 11, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) organised its annual Asia Water Forum #AWF2022 with the theme “Toward a Resilient and Water-Secure Asia and the Pacific”. The … Read more
GDA is participating in a session on IFAD Innovation Day as part of the IFAD 2022 Conference entitled “Jobs, Innovation and Value Chains in the age of Climate Change”. The … Read more
The kick off meeting for Climate Resilience will take place on the 3rd of December 2021. It is the second activity launch under the GDA AID (Agile Earth Observation Information … Read more
IFAD and FAO just published a new policy brief on low carbon and resilient livestock development in Kyrgyzstan. The two Agencies partnered with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the European Space Agency to assess how livestock is key in adapting to Climate Change in … Read more
The third annual South Asia Hydromet Forum (SAHF III) co-organised by the World Bank and held online on November 15-18, 2021, examined how pooling data, resources, and information can improve … Read more
Through its participation to IFAD ‘Sharefair of geospatial tools and applications for climate investments’ and the presentation of one key outcome of the EO4SD Climate Resilience cluster case study, GDA … Read more
Through its partnership with ESA, the Asian Development Bank has been working with the Government of West Bengal on providing Earth Observation tools that can increase disaster risk resilience and … Read more
The World Bank ‘Digital revolution for sustainable and scalable development’ event took place in Washington on 22 April 2021 and announced the launch of a new global programme, the Digital … Read more
On November 23, 2020 the World Bank organised a joint webinar with ESA on the latest technology supporting innovative risk financing solutions for climate shocks and other complex risks. With … Read more
