Impact of Increased Temperatures on Soil Moisture and Vegetation Condition - gap analysis

P28: Impact of increased temperatures on soil moisture and vegetation condition

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Maturity score

Mean: 2.3

STD: 0.75

Constraints and limitations

·   Cloud presence

·   Ground truth data is important for validation purposes

Relevant user needs

UN41: Need to monitor the impact of increased temperatures on assets.

R&D gaps

·   The low spatial resolution of products for temperature and soil moisture

·   Lack of long multitemporal EO series

Potential improvements drivers

·  Higher spatial and temporal resolutions EO data for temperature and soil moisture data

·  More validation of the product is required

Utilisation level review

Utilisation score

Mean: 2.20

STD: 0.75

No utilisation

·  Unawareness of the existence of this EO product

Low utilisation

·  Unawareness of the existence of commercial EO products with better specifications

·  estimations

Medium utilisation

·  Unawareness of the existence of the best available commercial EO product with better specifications.

High utilisation

Critical gaps related to relevant user needs

Guideline gap

UN41: Need to monitor the impact of increased temperatures on assets