A cloud-based data analytics platform based on the Australian innovation “Australian Geoscience Data Cube” which became the international Open Data Cube (opendatacube.org) concept with partners NASA, USGS, UK Catapult, CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites).
Current EASI projects overseas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, US (California), Chile and Colombia. Exploring opportunities to commercialize the technology.
Digital Earth Africa provides continental analysis-ready Earth observation data services, well placed to address climate change related issues.
Relevant geographic coverage: Africa’s Indian Ocean island nations and east African coastline.
Existing continental scale products include:
-Annual and semi-annual cloud free mosaics (GeoMad)
-Water Observations from Space
-Cropland extent map
-Fractional cover
Relevant products in development include:
-DE Africa coasts
-NDVI anomalies
A range of more detailed analysis tools are available, leveraging Landsat, Sentinel 1 and 2 data.
The DE Africa learning platform includes a fully online, self-paced short course designed to help users work autonomously on our data analysis platform, with options to expand to including thematic area training around use of EO data to address climate issues.
Capability to develop climate simulation models for international assessments, delivery of climate forecasts and projections, delivery of climate products and services to decision-makers.
Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS), a fully coupled earth system model that provides a national weather, climate and Earth system modelling capability for operations and research.
The IORA Indian Ocean Blue Carbon Hub aims to build knowledge about and capacity in protecting and restoring blue carbon ecosystems throughout the Indian Ocean, in a way that enhances livelihoods, reduces risks from natural disasters, and helps mitigate climate change.
Most recently the Blue Carbon Hub delivered an IORA workshop in November 2021 to develop a roadmap for the use of EO across the Indian Ocean.
India has 40 years of data on weather observation starting from INSAT-1A in 1982. Currently INSAT 3D and 3DR are in orbit from which around 30 products are being derived. This will be supplemented in future by INSAT-3DS and INSAT 4th generation. A renalaysis of the whole time series data will provide a valid climate record of Indian Ocean region which will be gap fill for the whole globe cover of similar data.
Already reanalyzed data includes (i) IMDAA Data - high resolution (12km, 1-hourly) regional reanalysis over India, from 1979 to 2020 (ii) NGFS Data - high resolution (25km, 6-hourly) Global reanalysis, from 1999 to 2019
ISRO’s program “National Information system for Climate and Environment Studies (NICES)” provides scientific data and information on geophysical products and climate-quality Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) for assisting the studies on climate science, adaptation, and mitigation. The goals are to make ISRO data products and services easy to access and use, climate-related support and to serve people making climate-related decisions with tools and resources that help them answer specific questions.
Also, ISRO’s NICES program is working towards Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) objectives as well as to create information base to assist scientific community, policy makers and stakeholders for a climate-smart nation.
JAXA has unique dataset of L band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquired by JERS-1 (from 1992 to 1996), ALOS/PALSAR (from 2006 to 2011), ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 (from 2014) and to be coming ALOS4/PALSAR-3. L band SAR has a capability of the microwaves passing through vegetations and partly reach the ground to obtain the state of vegetations and a ground surface even at night or when it is cloudy and rains. The global 25 m resolutions PALSAR2/PALSAR/JERS-1 mosaics are a global image created by mosaicking the orthorectified and slope corrected their images. The annual mosaic dataset consists of PALSAR-2 (2015 – 2020), PALSAR (2007 – 2010), and JERS-1 (1996). The global forest/non-forest (FNF) maps are generated from the global 25 m resolution PALSAR-2/PALSAR mosaics.
MEXT has established the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) as an information infrastructure to accumulate, integrate, analyze, and provide scientific knowledge obtained from climate change research. The DIAS not only provides various earth observation/projection datasets and web based application, but also has a computational environment using high performance computing, which makes it possible to analyze these data on the DIAS and create new prediction. One of DIAS’s significant products for climate change research is the database for policy decision making for future climate change (d4PDF), which comprises atmospheric global climate data and is distributed openly and freely. The DIAS is connected to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
The Ministry of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Environment, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency operate the Earth observation satellites the GOSAT series (GOSAT, GOSAT-2), and these satellites observe greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, etc.). The Greenhouse gas observation data from the GOSAT series are available for free on the Internet.
JAXA research team newly develops the JAXA/GOSAT GHG products, Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) partial column density of lower (approximately 0- 4 km) and upper (approximately 4-12 km) troposphere.
NOAA Climate.gov provides timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate science, adaptation, and mitigation. The goals are to promote public understanding of climate science and climaterelated events, to make NOAA data products and services easy to access and use, to provide climate-related support to the private sector and the Nation’s economy, and to serve people making climate-related decisions with tools and resources that help them answer specific questions. In short, NOAA Climate.gov's mission is to provide science and information for a climate-smart nation.
NOAA NESDIS is implementing the Coastal Observations Applications Services and Tools (COAST) Initiative under the auspices of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). This initiative provides valuable coastal satellite data products, information and applications supporting coastal resilience activities, and has been selected as a Contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
NOAA provides a range of training and technical assistance to our international partners to support their climate goals. Examples include building the capacity of international partners to deliver climate products within their countries; improving the understanding of and promoting data-driven decision making for climate-related impacts and adaptation; producing climate and drought situational awareness products used in the response planning for climate extreme events like droughts, flooding, and extreme heat. Specific examples:
NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer: A publicly available information and data tool which helps coastal communities project local flooding and sea level rise impacts.
NOAA’s Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper: A publicly available mapping resource to visualize coastal exposure and identify vulnerable areas and infrastructure.
Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product: A publicly available mapping resource and data tool that integrates a variety of types of satellite imagery to show the locations of fire and smoke in the US (and has also been used in Mexico and exported to other nations e.g., in process of exporting to Indonesia)
Early Warning Systems for weather, climate and hydrological disasters.
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is a multiagency platform led by NOAA to provide tools, information, and resources for coastal managers to strengthen community climate resilience from threats such as sea level rise. The Toolkit, which houses expert reports and training courses, makes resilience an achievable goal for coastal managers by breaking the challenge down into smaller strategies (e.g., explore hazards and assess vulnerability) and enabling access information and assistance in one place.
NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch (CRW) is the only global early-warning system of coral reef ecosystem physical environmental changes. CRW uses remote sensing, modeled and in situ data from a broad network of international partners to observe, predict, and report to its users on the coral reef environment worldwide. The Coral Reef Watch is developing new products to estimate the risk for coral disease outbreaks in a partnership with NASA, as coral disease outbreaks are the second biggest threat to coral reefs associated with climate change. There is an exciting new product that is under development that will predict coastal flooding of coral reef-lined coasts throughout the entire world. The CRW Program works closely with on-the-ground resource managers around the world, establishing sound practices for the use of its products to enhance resilience-based coral reef management. CRW works closely with its users throughout product conceptualization, development, implementation, and operationalization, providing training in appropriate product use, and garnering feedback to improve management tools.
NESDIS generates extensive multi-sensor satellite observations for multiple oceanographic parameters (including sea surface height and sea surface temperature) that provide valuable data productions and information for climate assessments and understanding. These are available through NOAA’s CoastWatch/OceanWatch Program.
SilvaCarbon is an U.S. Government interagency technical cooperation program of to enhance the capacity of selected tropical countries to measure, monitor, and report on carbon in their forests and other lands. The program provides targeted technical support to countries in the process of developing and implementing national forest and landscape monitoring systems to support management decisions.
USGS collaborates with SilvaCarbon countries on the use of remote sensing data to enhance national forest management systems and improve related emissions reporting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC).
USGS supports the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) AFOLU group working on a roadmap to increase the use of satellite data to improve the AFOLU reporting under the UN FCCC. Satellite data can provide fundamental information on land-use change to meet higher-Tier carbon emissions reporting requirements. USGS acts as a liaison between space agencies, providing remote sensing data for AFOLU in developing countries.
The Global Fiducials Library (GFL) is a long-term archive of declassified images from U.S. National Imagery Systems which represents a long-term periodic record for selected scientifically important sites. The GFL was created to be the collection, archive and data management component of the Global Fiducials Program (GFP). The GFL, which provides a long-term image database to support these investigations, contains imagery that focuses on five categories: Ocean Processes; Ice and Snow Dynamics; Atmospheric Processes; Land Use/Land Cover; and Geologic Processes.
The mission of “Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet” is to provide the public with accurate and timely news and information about Earth’s changing climate, along with current data and visualizations, presented from the unique perspective of NASA, one of the world’s leading climate research agencies.
NOAA has a full and open data policy for all of our satellites and in situ networks. NOAA currently provides two approaches to enable searching vast data holdings: the traditional NOAA Data Catalog for all data, and the new NOAA OneStop catalog which initially includes only the archived datasets but will eventually replace the traditional catalog. NOAA's Data Discovery Portal includes information of both of these catalogs. Further, NOAA NESDIS maintains one of the most significant archives of environmental data on the Earth through our National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). NCEI hosts and provides public access to over 37 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data. All of this data is available to the public.
