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| This page shows the taxonomy structure of the EO services organised thematically. There are 6 classes of service as shown on the tabs. Each class contains a number of thematic sectors into which the EO services are grouped. - Thematic Sector: this is the classification of the grouped EO services.
- Client view: These are each EO service described as a client may wish.
- Key-words: these define the products which can make up an EO service.
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| Thematic Sector | EO Services | Description |
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Agriculture
| Assess Environmental impact of farming | agri-environment |
| Assess crop damage due to storms | bad weather, impact on crops |
| Monitor crops | crop health (disease and stress), crop acreage and yield harvest (inventories / statistics), crop types (extent, growth, health, stress), crop yields |
| Detect illegal or undesired crops | illegal crops |
| Monitor water use on crops and horticulture | soil water index, surface soil moisture, run-off
| Forests | Assess Deforestation / Forest Degradation | deforestation, degradation maps |
| Assess forest damage due to storms or insects | storm, insect damage impact maps |
| Monitor forest resources | forest biomass (diversity, health, extent), forest type, forest classification (cover density), tree cover density (canopy coverage)
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| Detect illegal forest activities | illicit logging |
| Assess environmental impact of forestry | forest location, extent and tree cover density |
| Monitor forest carbon content | emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) | Inland Water | Assess and monitor water bodies | water quality, pollution, turbidity, suspended sediment concentrations (quantitative, qualitative), waterbody (temperature, extent, volume, quantity), algal blooms
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| Assess ground water and run-off | water run-off (water quantity), hydrological network and catchment areas (water catchment)
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| Monitor ice on rivers and lakes | inland ice | Snow & Ice | Detect changes in glaciers | glacier |
| Monitor snow cover | snow cover | Land Ecosystems | Monitor land ecosystems and biodiversity | critical habitat maps, wildlife corridors, linear features (hedges and boundaries, vegetation index (FAPAR; NDVI, LAI), vegetation stress, stem volume, soil moisture
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| Assess environmental impact of human activities | environmental assessment |
| Monitor land pollution | pollution |
| Monitor land cover and detect change | arid areas, wet areas, erosion potential, CORINE (characterization & classification), soil sealing | Land use | Detect illegal mining activities | illicit mining |
| Assess land value, ownership, type, use | land accounting (use, parcels), cadastral, land use & quality
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| Measure land use statistics | land administration, land use studies |
| Monitor humanitarian movement and camps | monitoring of settlements |
| Assess pressures on populations and migration | population pressures / migration |
| Monitor vegetation encroachment
| mapping of terrain, infrastructure and operations, pipeline corridor status, encroachment | Topography
| Baseline mapping | Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), Digital Surface Model (DSM), Digital Terrain Model (DTM), terrain roughness measure, slope stability (curvature, aspect), surface deformation maps and profiles |
| Measure and detect land surface change
| surface movement: sand dunes, pipeline routes (corridor status), soil erosion |
| Detect and monitor ground movement | reservoir compartmentalization & optimization, permafrost zone stability, ground displacement: fault identification, reactivation & discontinuities, uplift, subsidence, heave.
| Geology | Map geological features | near surface features, lithology features, linear disturbance features: faults & discontinuities |
| Map seismic survey operations | seismic (survey, coupling, logistics)
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| Monitor mineral extraction | mineral workings / ground surface, illegal activities |
| Identify hydrocarbon seeps in soil | hydrocarbon seepage (oil seeps) detection (near surface geology: faults, fractures, unconformities or carrier beds) |
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name | Built Environment |
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| Thematic Area | EO Service | Description |
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Monitor built environment | Monitor urban areas | Observation, identification, mapping, assessment and monitoring of urban areas and their dynamics at a range of spatial and temporal resolutions. Digital imaging processing methods such basic thresholding, unsupervised classification or products such urban heat island, impervious surfaces, land use change (residential, commercial, other), building density (3D city modelling), high photovoltaic penetration at the urban scale.. |
| Monitor urban surroundings | Understanding human settlements on the outskirts and near rural areas. Mapping and evolution characterization of human interactions (environmental, population and habitat fragmentation, soil sealing and socio-economic) of rural areas and surroundings, urban sprawl, green urban areas. |
| Monitor urban green and blue areas | Monitor green and blue urban areas (in relation to urban form, energy use and carbon emissions). It is about the estimation of urban energy fluxes at a neighbourhood scale (urban energy balance) using land cover, Digital Surface Models (DSM), surface roughness parameters (such as plan area index, frontal area index, roughness length and zero-displacement height), urban ecosystem restoration, urban heat island effect, green corridors, garden monitors. |
| Monitor construction and buildings | Construction site surveying and progress mapping, comprising surrounding ground as well as displacements of key components of such structures. There is a need for Near Real Time (NRT) data delivery and measuring stress. | Monitor infrastructure & installations | Assess damage from industrial accidents | Assess structural integrity of the infrastructure, site suitability and vulnerability. Connection with disaster risk reduction (emergency response, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction). |
| Asset infrastructure monitoring | Industrial activity assessment, monitoring of functional planning zones, exploit correlation with industrial activity to improve the model of subsurface, site suitability and vulnerability, land cover, infrastructure, dyke monitoring, emergency airport planning, etc. |
| Map and monitor solar energy (solar farms) | Urban solar mapping and understanding the basic characteristics of solar radiation over specific monitoring locations including estimating the variability of solar radiation for site selection and grid data/operators. Solar monitoring services use time series, Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DHI) and Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI), shadow mask. |
| Map and monitor wind energy (wind farms) | Understand where wind farms can be sited most cost-effectively and monitor and map wind energy fields (design and operation), wind roses, wind speed & direction. |
| Map and monitor hydroelectric energy | Hydrological network mapping (drainage navigation erosion) including hydropower grid monitoring and resource assessment. Water resource (reservoirs) monitoring, hydrological modelling and flood forecasting and mapping (dams). | Monitor transport networks | Map line of sight visibility (land surface) | Landscape visibility mapping and analysis, including spatial planning, terrain mapping (DTMs), land surface, map transmission and land routes. |
| Map and monitor transport networks | Transportation systems, interdependencies and industrial progress planning including site, soft ground and network mapping, highway environmental monitoring and assessment, identification of road or track for logistics planning. | Monitor waste | Monitor land pollution and waste management | Identifying illegal dumping and waste management and disposal for law enforcement. Landfills and dump sites emit large quantities of methane, quantify the emissions from these large sites in a single snapshot (maps) and do it frequently, surface and subsurface soil contamination monitoring, Land use/Land cover (LU/LC) maps which depict the physical characteristics of the surface, dry matter productivity, migration of pollutants and imperviousness land surface are parameters needed for this service. |
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name | Ocean & Marine |
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| Thematic Sector | EO Service | Description |
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Marine ecosystem | Monitor ocean quality and productivity | algal bloom (phytoplankton), ocean colour compositte (chl-a, swath, qualitative, quantitative), sea surface temperature (SST)
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| Monitor pollution at sea | turbidity & pollutants |
| Detect and monitor oil slicks | |
| Monitor oil rigs and flares | gas flares and oil rigs |
| Monitor marine habitats | algal blooms, marine mammals, sea surface temperature, sediments, plumes, dredging operation
| Coastal
| Map water depth or charting | charting / shallow water bathymetry |
| Monitor coastal ecosystem | waterbody nutrients / productivity (chlorophyll-a concentration), coastal, littoral and subtidal habitat (mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass canopy density)
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| Monitor ocean level and surface | sea rise |
| Assess and monitor coastal water quality | sediment (qualitative, quantitative), turbidity (quality, quantitative), visibility, chlorophyll-a concentration |
| | coastal land cover, shoreline change and coastal morphology (coastal terrain models) | Metocean | Forecast and monitor ocean currents and drift
| ocean dynamics and circulation: tides and ocean currents (surface current models for tides), sea surface salinity (internal waves, eddies and frontal areas), upwelling
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| Forecast and monitor ocean winds and waves | derived winds (speed, direction, stress) and waves (current veins, swell-maps: sea surface heigh), wave exposure (fetch, averaged directional wind speed and bathymetry), sea surface roughness (rain cells)
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| Forecast and map large waves | extreme waves / tsunami |
| Detect and monitor hurricanes and typhoons | atmospheric front, local weather phenomena, cloud structure, winds and waves, sea-surface temperature and sea-surface height | Fisheries | Map fish shoals | fish-shoal location |
| Detect and monitor illegal fishing | illegal fishing | Ships | Detect ships in critical areas | shipping and navigation |
| Monitor ship movements | ship | Sea-ice and icebergs | Detect and monitor ice-risk at sea | sea-ice and icebergs, ship routing, ice cover, oil rigs
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name | Atmosphere & Climate |
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| Thematic Areas | EO Service | Description |
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Monitor the atmosphere | Monitor and forecast air quality & emissions (fluxes) | Pollution and greenhouse gas emission monitoring. Measuring atmospheric concentrations and characterizing the micrometeorology or using atmospheric dispersion models to back-calculate the emission rates that gave the concentrations observed. Air quality/pollution source maps (CH4, CO2, NO2 & SO2, Particulate Matter, maps of average pollutant flux PM2.5, PM10).
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| Monitor atmosphere composition | Monitoring present conditions and forecasting the distribution (transportation), for a few days ahead, of both anthropogenic and naturally occurring key greenhouse gases (GHG) like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), or reactive gases such as nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), etc. |
| Forecasting sunlight exposure | While the solar radiation impacting the top of the atmosphere can be well modelled, the solar radiation arriving at the surface is dependent on the atmospheric transmission and turbidity and aerosol optical depth. Forecasting and risk assessment amount of solar (sunlight) radiation which reaches the surface of the planet (UV, radiation measures, models). | Monitor climate change | Assess changes in the carbon balance | Measuring carbon stocks, especially aboveground biomass and providing an overview of a range of approaches that have been developed and used to map biomass across a diverse set of conditions and geographic areas (quantifying stem volume and carbon stock changes). It also includes historical climate data. |
| Assess climate change risk & climate forcing | Assess current and future vulnerability to climate change including variability caused by a perturbation of the climate system and associated atmospheric composition (aerosol, ozone and greenhouse gases) driven by human activities). The radiative forcing measures the imbalance in the surface solar irradiance and is a useful predictor of globally averaged temperature change. | Forecast the weather (meteo)
| Forecast weather | Monitor and forecast weather conditions such as temperature, storms, precipitation, heat waves and tropical cyclones – as well as other hazards influenced by weather, like floods or dispersion of atmospheric or marine pollution.
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Floods | Map and assess flooding | surface soil moisture, floodplain, flood extend mapping, flood risk assessment, flood frequency, rainfall, monitoring flash floods, flood frequency and modelling
| Fires | Detect and monitor wildfires | forest fire risk (extent, burnt scars), damage | Earthquakes | Assess damage from earthquakes | earthquake (risk, information, damage), seismic, inter-seismic deformations, slip rates & active faults, stress transfer on faults
| Landslides | Forecast and assess landslides | landslides (risk, monitoring, damage), slope instability and subsidence detection, fault and discontinuity maps (vector or raster) | Volcanos | Assess and Monitor Volcanic Activity | volcanic eruptions (pre-eruptive, sin-eruptive, atmospheric ash, dispersion) |
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