Dr Chris Holloway from the University of Reading takes a look at how satellite data improvements for your daily weather forecast can be used for climate action and explains why satellite missions launched now secure scientific capability for future generations.
Climate Services – Members’ Spotlights
As a group we are able to offer end-to-end capability from design, manufacture and satellite launch to data analytics and integration of climate information into decision support services.
As defined by the Global Framework for Climate Services: “Climate services provide climate information to help individuals and organisations make climate smart decisions… They equip decision-makers in climate-sensitive sectors with better information to help society adapt to climate variability and change.”
Join us at the free annual Space Applications networking event, this year hosted online by the UK Space Agency.
STRATA is a web-based mapper identifying environmental and climate hotspots to supporting policy-making and programme planning around environmental and climate security.
Airbus is engaged in establishing solutions to help monitor, manage and mitigate the impact of climate change.
The S4C Climate Talent Competition 2019 led to a UK-based demonstrator project on the recovery of Peatland areas.
Heat data service – helping cities understand their most vulnerable areas for targeting mitigation strategies.
Space4Climate worked with the London Climate Change Partnership to start a conversation about the potential to obtain and use data to create a heat vulnerability index for UK cities, or a similar information product, to support implementation, measuring progress, and monitoring heat risk across a range of different needs and sectors.
WaterWorld is a testbed for the development and implementation of land and water related policies for sites and regions globally, to test intended and unintended consequences of policies.
Satellite data helps to provide real-time information and work out how climate change affects the distribution, severity and frequency of thunderstorms, thus increasing aviation safety.
My Sustainable Forest provides geo-information products to help to improve the management of Forest Provisioning Services and Regulating Services.
Deriving geospatial data inputs from EO satellites provides a fast and cost-effective method of understanding current air pollution.
Earth observation for marine and coastal mapping, monitoring and analysis provides a fast and cost-effective method of understanding the current coastal state.