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.
Thematic Sector | EO Services | Description |
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Agriculture | agri-environment | |
bad weather, impact on crops | ||
crop health (disease and stress), crop acreage and yield harvest (inventories / statistics), crop types (extent, growth, health, stress), crop yields | ||
illegal crops | ||
soil water index, surface soil moisture, run-off | ||
Forests | deforestation, degradation maps | |
storm, insect damage impact maps | ||
forest biomass (diversity, health, extent), forest type, forest classification (cover density), tree cover density (canopy coverage) | ||
illicit logging | ||
forest location, extent and tree cover density | ||
Monitor forest carbon content | emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) | |
Inland Water | water quality, pollution, turbidity, suspended sediment concentrations (quantitative, qualitative), waterbody (temperature, extent, volume, quantity), algal blooms | |
water run-off (water quantity), hydrological network and catchment areas (water catchment) | ||
inland ice | ||
Snow & Ice | glacier | |
snow cover | ||
Land Ecosystems | critical habitat maps, wildlife corridors, linear features (hedges and boundaries, vegetation index (FAPAR; NDVI, LAI), vegetation stress, stem volume, soil moisture | |
environmental assessment | ||
pollution | ||
Monitor land cover and detect change | arid areas, wet areas, erosion potential, CORINE (characterization & classification), soil sealing | |
Land use | illicit mining | |
land accounting (use, parcels), cadastral, land use & quality | ||
land administration, land use studies | ||
monitoring of settlements | ||
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 | |
reservoir compartmentalization & optimization, permafrost zone stability, ground displacement: fault identification, reactivation & discontinuities, uplift, subsidence, heave. | ||
Geology | near surface features, lithology features, linear disturbance features: faults & discontinuities | |
seismic (survey, coupling, logistics) | ||
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) |
Thematic Sector | EO Service | Description |
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Urban Areas | urban areas, urban atlas, urban settlement maps, urban development, smart cities, individual houses inventory | |
rural areas and surroundings, waste management, water supply, positioning energy, leisure | ||
Infrastructure | building inventory & footprint, strategic infrastructure development, structural interpretation | |
solar energy and radiation (design and operation) | ||
wind energy (design and operation), wind roses | ||
land surface, spatial planning, landscape visibility analysis, terrain mapping (DTMs), map transmission and land routes | ||
hydroelectric plants (design and operation) | ||
infrastructure, soft ground, identification of road or track for logistics planning, transport network | ||
Assess damage from industrial accidents | disaster risk reduction (emergency response, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction) | |
Asset infrastructure monitoring | land cover, infrastructure, pipelines |
Thematic Sector | EO Service | Description |
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Marine ecosystem | algal bloom (phytoplankton), ocean colour compositte (chl-a, swath, qualitative, quantitative), sea surface temperature (SST) | |
turbidity & pollutants | ||
oil spill threats (early warning), natural oil seepage, | ||
gas flares and oil rigs | ||
Monitor marine habitats | algal blooms, marine mammals, sea surface temperature, sediments, plumes, dredging operation | |
Coastal | charting / shallow water bathymetry | |
waterbody nutrients / productivity (chlorophyll-a concentration), coastal, littoral and subtidal habitat (mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass canopy density) | ||
sea rise | ||
Assess and monitor coastal water quality | sediment (qualitative, quantitative), turbidity (quality, quantitative), visibility, chlorophyll-a concentration | |
Monitor the coast line | coastal land cover, shoreline change and coastal morphology (coastal terrain models) | |
Metocean | ocean dynamics and circulation: tides and ocean currents (surface current models for tides), sea surface salinity (internal waves, eddies and frontal areas), upwelling | |
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) | ||
extreme waves / tsunami | ||
atmospheric front, local weather phenomena, cloud structure, winds and waves, sea-surface temperature and sea-surface height | ||
Fisheries | fish-shoal location | |
illegal fishing | ||
Ships | Detect ships in critical areas | shipping and navigation |
ship | ||
Sea-ice and icebergs |
Thematic Areas | EO Service | Description |
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Monitor the atmosphere | 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). | |
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. | |
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 | 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 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) | 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. |
Thematic Sector | EO Services | Description |
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Floods | surface soil moisture, floodplain, flood extend mapping, flood risk assessment, flood frequency, rainfall, monitoring flash floods, flood frequency and modelling | |
Fires | forest fire risk (extent, burnt scars), damage | |
Earthquakes | earthquake (risk, information, damage), seismic, inter-seismic deformations, slip rates & active faults, stress transfer on faults | |
Landslides | landslides (risk, monitoring, damage), slope instability and subsidence detection, fault and discontinuity maps (vector or raster) | |
Volcanos | volcanic eruptions (pre-eruptive, sin-eruptive, atmospheric ash, dispersion) |
Thematic Sector | EO Service | Description |
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Security | geospatial intelligence, sensitive risk areas (mines, unexploded objects (UXO), de-mining), high risk areas, precision mapping | |
humanitarian aid maps | ||
border area monitoring. | ||
Monitor movement of people | migration and cleansing | |
Monitor economic activity | legal and illegal activities | |
Monitor transport routes | transportation of legal and illegal goods, trafficking | |
daily disease risk maps, NDVI, land cover, soil type |
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