Open data policies and satellite Earth observation

Harris, Ray; Baumann, Ingo

doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2015.01.001

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“…The meteorological and the oceanographic communities opted for open and free access in the 1990s (Harris and Baumann 2015); this policy was also reflected in the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, made operational by the major space agencies in 2000 and now providing data and imaging access even to non-parties during a crisis situation. 4 In other domains, data at medium resolution or finer have traditionally come at a cost (Belward and Skøien 2015).…”

Section: Boundaries Of the Earth Observation Environmental Regime Commentioning

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Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes

Stokke

Young

2017

Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

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Section: Boundaries Of the Earth Observation Environmental Regime Commentioning

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Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes

Stokke

Young

2017

Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

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“…One option to help provide the required data for the SDG indicators is to use Earth Observation (EO) via satellites, although this can be expensive, especially for higher-resolution data. However, free historical and current access to EO data has been offered by space agencies such as ESA and NASA for more than ten years [4,5]. Likewise, considerable efforts have been made by many organisations to provide continuous Big Earth Data integrated into available systems and solutions via Data Hubs (e.g., Copernicus Open Access Hub, Earth Explorer, EUMETSAT Data Centre), Data Cubes (Digital Earth Australia, Earth Server, Swiss Data Cube) and Open Sources (Google Earth Engine, Amazon Web Services, ESA U-TEP).…”

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Seeing Sustainability from Space: Using Earth Observation Data to Populate the UN Sustainable Development Goal Indicators

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In 2015, member countries of the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York. These global goals have 169 targets and 232 indicators based on the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental. However, substantial challenges remain in obtaining data of the required quality and quantity to populate these indicators efficiently. One promising and innovative way of addressing this issue is to use Earth observation (EO). The research reported here updates our original work to develop a Maturity Matrix Framework (MMF) for assessing the suitability of EO-derived data for populating the SDG indicators, with a special focus on those indicators covering the more social and economic dimensions of sustainable development, as these have been under-explored in terms of the contribution that can be made by EO. The advanced MMF 2.0 framework set out in this paper is based on a wide consultation with EO and indicator experts (semi-structured interviews with 38 respondents). This paper provides detail of the evolved structure of MMF 2.0 and illustrates its use for one of the SDG indicators (Indicator 11.1.1). The revised MMF is then applied to published work covering the full suite of SDG indicators and demonstrates that EO can make an important contribution to providing data relevant to a substantial number of the SDG indicators.

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“…* Corresponding author During the last two decades, national and international organizations have set up extensive investment plans targeting EO technologies. This has resulted in a growing availability of sensors and platforms delivering high-resolution and up-to-date EO data, which is more often released with open licenses to the public (Harris and Baumann, 2015). One of the most relevant examples of the above is represented by the Copernicus Earth Observation Programme of the European Union (http://copernicus.eu).…”

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Coherent Change Detection for Repeated-Pass Interferometric Sar Images: An Application to Earthquake Damage Assessment on Buildings

Oxoli

Boccardo

Brovelli

et al. 2018

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> During disaster response, the availability of relevant information, delivered in a proper format enabling its use among the different actors involved in response efforts, is key to lessen the impact of the disaster itself. Focusing on the contribution of geospatial information, meaningful advances have been achieved through the adoption of satellite earth observations within emergency management practices. Among these technologies, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging has been extensively employed for large-scale applications such as flood areas delineation and terrain deformation analysis after earthquakes. However, the emerging availability of higher spatial and temporal resolution data has uncovered the potential contribution of SAR to applications at a finer scale. This paper proposes an approach to enable pixel-wise earthquake damage assessments based on Coherent Change Detection methods applied to a stack of repeated-pass interferometric SAR images. A preliminary performance assessment of the procedure is provided by processing Sentinel-1 data stack related to the 2016 central Italy earthquake for the towns of Ametrine and Accumoli. Damage assessment maps from photo-interpretation of high-resolution airborne imagery, produced in the framework of Copernicus EMS (Emergency Management Service &ndash; European Commission) and cross-checked with field survey, is used as ground truth for the performance assessment. Results show the ability of the proposed approach to automatically identify changes at an almost individual building level, thus enabling the possibility to empower traditional damage assessment procedures from optical imagery with the centimetric change detection sensitivity characterizing SAR. The possibility of disseminating outputs in a GIS-like format represents an asset for an effective and cross-cutting information sharing among decision makers and analysts.</p>

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Open data policies and satellite Earth observation

Cited by 66 publications

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Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes

Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes

Seeing Sustainability from Space: Using Earth Observation Data to Populate the UN Sustainable Development Goal Indicators

Coherent Change Detection for Repeated-Pass Interferometric Sar Images: An Application to Earthquake Damage Assessment on Buildings

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