ESA Projects
ESA AI4IS - AI Forecasting for Ice Shelf Collapse (2024 - 2026)
A a project within AI4Science – Challange 3 - Prediction of dynamics, specially anomalies and extremes. The project aims to develop the first EO-driven, AI system for predicting Antarctic ice shelf instability (https://ai4is.enveo.at/).
Project Team: Science & Technology (S&T) Norway (PI); ENVEO IT GmbH; University of Lancaster Environment Centre
ESA Contract No. 4000143299
ESA AI4SNOW - Artifical Inteligence for Snow Cover in Mountain Regions (2024 - 2026)
A project within ESA AI4Science – Challenge 1 Multivariate dataset reconstruction. The project develops, implements and validates a new way of facilitating Artificial Intelligence methods for harmonisation, temporal and spatial gap-filling and downscaling of EO based snow products from different sensors and resolutions (https://ai4snow.eoc.dlr.de/).
Project Team: German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Observation Center (EOC) (PI); ENVEO IT GmbH; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF; ECCC Environment and Climate Change Canada; McGill University; University of Saskatchewan
ESA Contract No. 4000143295
ESA CCI+ Antarctic Ice Sheet (2019 - 2021, 2024 - 2026)
ENVEO is partner in the Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI+ Project, which is part of the Climate Change Initiative of ESA and the continuation of the Ice Sheets CCI and Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI (phase 2) projects. In AIS CCI+ ENVEO is leading the Antarctic ice velocity product from Sentinel-1 SAR data.
Products are provided through ENVEO's CryoPortal and the CCI Open Data Portal.
Project Team: DTU Microwaves and Remote Sensing Group (DTU-N), DTU Geodynamics Group (DTU-S), ENVironmental Earth Observation IT GmbH (ENVEO), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Science [&] Technology AS (ST), Technische Universität Dresden (TUDr), University College London (UCL/MSSL), University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment (UL)
Website: http://www.esa-icesheets-antarctica-cci.org/
ESA/Contract No. 4000126813/19/I-NB
ESA CCI+ Greenland Ice Sheet (2019 - 2021, 2024 - 2026)
ENVEO is partner in the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI+ Project, which is part of the Climate Change Initiative of ESA and the continuation of the Ice Sheets CCI and Greenland Ice Sheet CCI (phase 2) projects. In GIS CCI+ ENVEO is leading the Greenland ice velocity product from Sentinel-1 SAR data.
Products are provided through ENVEO's CryoPortal and the CCI Open Data Portal.
Project Team: Asiaq Greenland Survey (ASIAQ), DTU-Space, Department of Geodynamics (DTU-S), DTU-Space, Department of Microwaves and Remote Sensing (DTU-N), Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH (ENVEO), Science [&] Technology AS (S&T), Technische Universität Dresden (TUDr), The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), The Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment (UL)
Website: http://www.esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/
ESA/Contract No. 4000126023/19/I-NB
ESA CCI+ Snow (Phase 1: 2018 - 2021, Phase 2: 2022 - 2025)
ENVEO is leading the Snow CCI Project, which is part of the Climate Change Initiative extension (CCI+) of ESA. The main objective of the project is the generation of homogeneous, well calibrated, long-term time series of snow cover extent and snow water equivalent from multi-sensor satellite data for climate applications. ENVEO is leading the algorithm development and is contributing to the snow cover extent production from optical satellite data.
Project Team: ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH (PI), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Eurac Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Norwegian Computing Centre (NR), University of Berne, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS / IGE), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), University of Edinburgh
Websites: http://cci.esa.int/snow and http://snow-cci.enveo.at
ESA Contract No. 4000124098/18/I-NB
ESA CCI+ Glaciers (2019 - 2021, 2023 - 2025)
ENVEO is partner in the Glaciers CCI+ Project, which is part of the Climate Change Initiative of ESA and the continuation of the Glaciers CCI (phase 1 & phase 2) projects. In Glaciers CCI+ ENVEO is leading the ice velocity product from Sentinel-1 SAR data.
Products are provided through the Glaciers_cci CRDP 2 Database.
Project Team: Department of Geography, University of Zurich (GIUZ), Gamma Remote Sensing AG (GAMMA), Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH (ENVEO), Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo (GUIO), School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SEEL/UL)
Website: http://www.esa-glaciers-cci.org/
ESA/Contract No. 4000127593/19/I-NB
ESA COBIS4HARMONY – Bistatic SAR Retrieval over La Girose Glacier in the La Meije Massif, La Grave, France (2023 - 2024)
Project Team: EOS Electronic Systems, LTD. (PI); Mediation Climat, Micro-enterprise; ENVEO IT GmbH.
ESA Contract No. 4000141690
ESA POLAR+ 4DGreenland (2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2024)
ENVEO is partner in the 4DGreenland Project. The main objective of the project is to perform an integrated assessment of the Greenland hydrology, with a focus on maximizing the use of Earth Observation data in determining each of the three major components and their interconnections: surface melt processes, supraglacial storage and drainage, and subglacial melt, drainage and lakes.
Project Team: Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (PI), ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Lancaster University (LU), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), German Aerospace Center (DLR), EarthWave Ltd, Shepherd Space Ltd, Science [&] Technology AS (S[&]T)
Website: https://4dgreenland.eo4cryo.dk/
ESA Contract No.: 4000132139
ESA 4DAntarctica (2019 - 2021, 2022 - 2024)
ENVEO is partner in the 4DAntarctica Project, the overall aim of this project is to advance our understanding of the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s supra and subglacial hydrology, its evolution, and its role within the broader ice sheet and ocean systems. ENVEO is leading the development of melt products from Sentinel-1 SAR.
Project Team: School of Geosciences - University of Edinburgh, EarthWave, NERC (PI), British Antarctic Survey, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Leeds, University of Lancaster, Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE), ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, ETH Zürich Institute for Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” (IFAC CNR), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Shepherd Space Ltd
Website: http://4d-antarctica.org/
ESA/Contract No. 4000128611/19/I-DT
ESA Harmony Mission Performance and Requirement Consolidation Activity for Solid Earth & Land Ice (2021 - 2023)
The project aim is to justify, refine, trace and consolidate Harmony mission performances and mission requirements to SRL-5 or above. The primary output of this study is the scientific and technical documentation used to consolidate the Harmony MRD. Scientific Readiness Assessments, software tools, scientific models, algorithms, analysis results and recommendations, being elaborated in the project, are primarily used for this task and contributed to the Report for Mission Selection of the Earth Explorer 10 Candidate Mission Harmony (ESA - ESA selects Harmony as tenth Earth Explorer mission).
Project Team: German Aerospace Center, Microwaves and Radar Institute (DLR) (PI); Delft University of Technology; ENVEO IT GmbH; Pi Space Ltd; Simon Frazer University; University of Bristol; Universite Grenoble Alpes; University of Oslo
ESA Contract No. 4000135083/21/NL/FF/ab