Satellite Earth Observation (EO) technology has major potential to inform and facilitate international development work in a globally consistent manner. Since 2008, the European Space Agency has worked closely together with the International Financing Institutions (IFIs) and their client countries to harness the benefits of EO in their operations and resources management. EO4SD – Earth … Read more
Satellite Earth Observation (EO) technology has major potential to inform and facilitate international development work in a globally consistent manner. Since 2008, the European Space Agency has worked closely together with the International Financing Institutions (IFIs) and their client countries to harness the benefits of EO in their operations and resources management. EO4SD – Earth … Read more
Satellite Earth Observation (EO) technology has major potential to inform and facilitate international development work in a globally consistent manner. Since 2008, the European Space Agency has worked closely together with the International Financing Institutions (IFIs) and their client countries to harness the benefits of EO in their operations and resources management. EO4SD – Earth … Read more
Christoph Aubrecht and Marc Paganini are invited to participate in a workshop dedicated to "EO for Agenda 2030", co-organised by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish National Space Agency. ESA's activities on SDG monitoring as well as activities in working with IFIs are being presented as part of this event.
This symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions. The programme is notably presented in the Agora 'Impact stories from the Global Development Assistance partnership program (link … Read more
The GDA team will participate in a session entitled "Global Development for Green Deal" as part of the EXPANDEO & Fire Forum 2022. After presenting the GDA programme and its mission to accelerate impact by mainstreaming the use of EO into international development assistance activities and operations, the session will further discuss with the European … Read more
GDA is participating in a session at the IFAD Innovation Day 2022 which is taking place at IFAD Headquarter in Rome on the 21st of June 2022. The session, entitled "Applications of GIS and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Climate Action" is focusing on GDA as well as pas experiences of partnering with IFAD in EO4SD. … Read more
Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency, is invited to a high-level panel organised by the World Bank Group on "Digital technologies for inclusive, climate-responsive development", as part of the European Development Days (21-22 June 2022) She will notably talk about the GDA programme among other ESA initiatives which ensure … Read more
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is organising its annual water forum with the theme "Toward a Resilient and Water-Secure Asia and the Pacific". The GDA programme will be presented on Thursday the 11th in order to highlight the ongoing partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on (but not … Read more
IFAD is organising on 7 September 2022 a new "Food4Thought Series" online event on the theme Leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). The event will discuss the best approaches to systematically integrate GIS in M&E of development interventions in order to establish a data foundation for more transparent monitoring and impact … Read more
