Visualizing complex risks for informed action

The links between environmental change, climate stress, conflict and the vulnerability of populations are complex, and access to data on these subjects is not straightforward. The result of a collaboration between Earth Blox, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the University of Edinburgh, Strata brings together data from a variety of sources to see and locate 'hotspots' - those areas most at risk.

🟢 Free access

Preserving the bocage network

Hedgerows are excellent levers for the resilience of territories to climate change and for maintaining biodiversity. EagleHedges has developed operational tools for monitoring and characterizing the bocage network using Earth observation images and very high-resolution 3D models, in order to make up for the lack of reliable, recurring data on the state of the French bocage. The project team is working to extend the tool to other territories and, as new needs arise, to extend its functionalities.

🟢 HedgeTools, the hedge characterization tool, is available as an open-source QGIS plugin.

🔵 Automatic hedge detection service available on request.

Identify and visualize agricultural wasteland

The Izifriche solution is a comprehensive support service for the identification and visualization of agricultural wasteland, aimed at local players wishing to act for the resilience of their territory.

Developed as part of the SCO FrichesAgricoles project, the method for automated identification of wasteland is based on the use of geographical and satellite data analyzed by the WaSaBI ©CNES software's Artificial Intelligence, at the scale of the entire Occitanie region (France). The parcel data from the regional inventory of wasteland is used in a web interface equipped with numerous geographic databases, providing a global vision of the issues at stake at different territorial scales (commune, inter-commune, département).

🔵 Service marketed by Safer Occitanie from June 2024.

A tool for characterising, monitoring and forecasting drought on a regional scale

An information display and distribution platform developed by InSight, the indicators put in place provide institutions with an objective, up-to-date, spatialized and temporal response to the drought phenomenon.

Developed in New Caledonia, the tool also helps farmers to manage their crops in a rational way, by enabling them to monitor the situation as closely as possible, in line with environmental conditions and changes in them.  InSight is now working on extending the tool to other territories and extending its functionalities.

🔵 EO4DM is a commercial service and requires an account and password.

Supporting the transformation of rural areas

The fruit of the Meo-Climate project, MEOSS offers 3 web mapping interfaces:

• AgriPractice, whose indicators help decision-makers to implement measures to adapt to agricultural soil erosion;
• WaterReserve, which centralises a panel of indicators dedicated to intra- and inter-annual monitoring of water surfaces;
• Meo-GreenEnergy, a tool for detecting and optimising the siting of photovoltaic panels.

🔵 Marketed services, accessible by account and password.

Monitoring tropical deforestation

The Tropisco platform provides a near-real-time view of tropical deforestation from 2018 to the present day. Its maps of forest cover loss are updated every 6 to 12 days using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite.

Aiming for global coverage, Tropisco currently monitors the forests of 7 countries (French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Gabon, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia), which were used to develop the tool.

🟢 Free access

Monitoring territorial dynamics

Developed in the Mato-Grosso region (Brazilian Amazon), the Chove-Chuva demonstrator offers a map-based summary of the territorial dynamics observed in relation to the adaptation and mitigation strategies put in place.

Using multisource data, the tool can produce a 'dashboard' of the territorial situation for an area predefined by a user, based on synthetic indicators covering 4 major themes: climate (rainfall), forest cover, water (hydrology) and agriculture (surface area and practices).

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An olive tree observatory, a bioindicator of climate change

SCOLive has set up an observatory to better understand the conditions under which olive tree diseases appear and to anticipate treatments. In doing so, it uses changes in the condition of trees as a marker of climate change.

As a community project, it relies on a mobile application that provides geolocated, time-stamped information. The whole system has great potential for geographical expansion.

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Monitoring irrigated plots and their crop rotation

MEO-Irrigation is a web mapping interface that can be used to extract quantitative indicators to monitor crop irrigation and assess the total surface area irrigated in order to anticipate water requirements and tensions. Working with Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical data at plot level, the system aggregates its data to produce statistics and analyses at commune, canton and even catchment level.

MEO-Irrigation thus completes the MEOSS WaterManagement range of services.

🔵 A commercial service, access requires an account and password.

Creating global monitoring of the load on hydraulic dams

An automated satellite-based solution, the Stock Water platform calculates water volumes and the filling rate of dams. It enables inter-annual comparisons and provides a regional water balance report. It currently displays the results of 110 reservoirs monitored for its development over a three-year period.

The DEM-based bathymetry estimator is published under an open source licence.

🟢 Free access

Dynamic monitoring of rice crops

Entirely based on radar imagery, the VietSCO platform, the result of the Vimesco-rice and Viet-ARRO projects, offers a set of maps to support the resilience of rice growing in Vietnam in the face of climate change phenomena.

It provides seasonal maps of rice cultivation and annual intensity, maps of flood extent and duration, and projections of land suitability for rice cultivation under different climate change scenarios.

🟢 Free access