ESA EO Open Science Newsletter

News from EO Open Science

March 2025

Highlights: Maximising reusability and impact - ESA's new EarthCODE and APEx foster reproducible open science and applications; gamification of geospatial indicators; understanding El Nino impacts with open data.

The ESA EO Open Science team

Highlights

EarthCODE: NEW CALL OPEN

EarthCODE is a new ESA EO initiative to ensure long-term access and reuse of Earth System Science data and methods (code). Integrating EO platform services based on various technologies such as pangeo stack and openEO, it empowers scientists to adopt FAIR Open Science and publish reproducible research. A call for new subcontractors is open until 7 April 2025.

HOW TO APPLY

ESA APEx: SERVICES TO STREAMLINE EO INNOVATION TO OPERATIONS

The ESA Application Propagation Environments (APEx) initiative transforms Earth observation outcomes into scalable, reusable on-demand services. With FAIR principles, it offers tailored support ensuring seamless integration into cloud platforms, APEx guarantees long-term accessibility, usability and continued impact through the ESA Network of Resources

NEW OPEN DATA ON FIRE EMISSIONS

A new open access dataset from SENSE4FIRE study funded by ESA EO is available at TUD’s OPARA data repository. The dataset was derived and analysed in the Nature Geoscience paper by Forkel et al. (2024) which showed that smouldering woody debris in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes contribute up to 75% of burned biomass, releasing 40 million tonnes of CO2 during the 2020 wildfires.

Gamification of Geospatial Indicators: Discovering Insights Through Play

These new economic and environmental indicators published on the ESA-EC RACE (Rapid Action for Citizens with EO) dashboard engage the users in a Minesweeper game to uncover areas of environmental stress, health risk or biodiversity status

PLAY: Wildlife & Biodiversity🌱💣

PLAY: Air Pollution & Health 🌡️💣

ESA, NASA and JAXA satellites observing the record breaking El Nino 2023-2024

Open data from ESA, NASA and JAXA EO missions help understand and characterise El Niño and its global consequences. Learn about the fifth most powerful El Niño in recorded history from two new stories (Part 1 and Part 2) recently published on the tri-agency EO Dashboard - a great resource for education in EO science.

JOIN THE EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE HUB

The Earth System Science Hub is a new ESA facility for advanced Earth system and climate science studies. It is a centre of excellence for science collaboration, networking, and exchange of ideas, promoting a community response to major science challenges of this decades. Discover the diverse opportunities to get involved!

GET INVOLVED

WELCOME TO THE EarthCODE COMMUNITY!JOIN

The EarthCODE Discourse forum hosts discussions about open-source tools, FAIR and data, to enable re-use and collaboration on Earth System research. Join to connect with researchers, share insights, publish your data and workflows, and stay up to date on events.

JOIN THE FORUM

A NEW MOOC ON EO OPEN SCIENCE

ESA has developed several Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), with more to come in the future. The Massive Open Online Course 'Cubes & Clouds - Cloud Native Open Data Sciences for Earth Observation' teaches the concepts of data cubes, cloud platforms and open science in the context of Earth observation.

CUBES & CLOUDS

How Can We Enhance the EO Dashboard with AI? Share Your Ideas with ESA, NASA & JAXA!

The Earth Observing Dashboard is an open access data exploration and storytelling tool developed by NASA, ESA and JAXA to communicate scientific findings on our changing environment with EO data from the three agencies. The team is now looking to integrate more AI to enhance the user experience and offer new capabilities. What would be interesting for you? We want tour ideas in this quick 4-minute survey.

Survey

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