Application Areas of Satellite Data

• Identifying Risk Areas: Addressing heat stress, air and light pollution, and ensuring healthy living spaces.
• Waste Management: Efficient management and monitoring of illegal disposal.
• Urban Planning: Supporting the management of growth, infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and resilience.
• Cultural Heritage Monitoring: Protecting and monitoring cultural sites.

• Construction Monitoring: Site selection and construction oversight through satellite-based ground movement analysis.
• Resilient Infrastructure: Designing and maintaining robust infrastructures considering climate changes.
• Logistics Optimization: Enhancing logistical processes.

• Modern Agriculture: Using Earth observation data for sustainable nutrient management, soil regeneration, and biodiversity conservation.
• Fertilization Optimization: Large-scale monitoring of plant nutrient levels.
• Monitoring of Subsidized Lands: Ensuring compliance with agricultural policies.

^{Foto: Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA}

• Ecosystem Health: Understanding ecosystem conditions and potential stress factors.
• Policy Development: Data-driven decision-making at regional and international levels.
• Land Monitoring: Observing land cover, surface temperature time series, snow cover, glacier movement, ground movement, elevation, and topography.
• Vegetation Monitoring: Identifying vegetation and crop types, monitoring vegetation parameters, heat and drought stress, growth, biodiversity, pest infestations, and targeted irrigation management.

^{Foto: Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA}

• Climate Modeling: Creating future scenarios.
• Climate Adaptation: Planning measures based on historical and current data, such as soil temperature, moisture, changes, and erosion.
• Water Bodies: Monitoring water temperature, quality, levels, algae blooms, eutrophication, and turbidity.
• Atmosphere: Tracking air temperature, quality, wind, aerosols, cyclones, clouds, solar radiation, emissions, and precipitation. Monitoring atmospheric composition, ozone layer, UV radiation, emissions, and surface fluxes.

• Air Quality and UV Monitoring: Supporting sustainable and safe tourism.
• Wildfire Tracking: Monitoring wildfires and smoke plumes regarding intensity and spread

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• Energy Production: Estimating annual energy production, risk assessments, and predicting grid stability. Conducting potential analyses for renewable energy (solar, wind), mapping thermal planning, site planning and optimization, environmental monitoring, and forecasting energy production patterns.
• Resource Sector: Monitoring environmental impacts of resource extraction and processing, identifying high-resource potential areas, safety monitoring of mines, and detecting illegal mining activities.

• Sustainability: Monitoring forest health, carbon cycles, management sustainability, and preventing deforestation and degradation.
• Illegal Logging: Monitoring and classifying activities, especially in inaccessible regions.

^{Foto: Rudolf Jakkel, Pexels}

• Route Optimization: Combining Earth observation and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System, e.g., GPS in the USA and Galileo in the EU) for more efficient and less polluting shipping routes.

^{Foto: Sascha Hormel, Pexels}

• Railway Safety: Providing information on risk factors like vegetation growth, landslides, and floods automatically.
• Track Monitoring: Detecting millimeter-precise ground movements for track structure monitoring automatically, to support control teams.
• Mobility and Parking Management Trends and Forecasts: Analyzing trends and making predictions.

^{Foto: MA18-Christian Fuerthner}

• Earth Observation (EO) provides the comprehensive view needed for context-aware emergency responses, from preparation and prevention to mitigation, response, and recovery after an event.
• EO offers detailed information on remote and hard-to-reach areas, providing reliable and regularly updated documentation, assessments, and real-time observations of humanitarian situations.
• Risk Assessments and Optimized Environmental Planning: Detecting damage (storm damage, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, etc.) to critical infrastructure and supporting acute disaster preparedness.

^{Foto: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA}