Have you seen the two new UK projects on the Space Climate Observatory (SCO)? Space4Nature & Strata – two Earth Observation applications developed my S4C members, go live
Space4Nature and Strata are now live on the interactive online guide to leading world climate services.
You can explore them both, and 15 other newly featured international climate data applications, here: https://www.spaceclimateobservatory.org/projects
Space4Nature
Zoom in on the UK to find Space4Nature – used to reverse fragmentation of natural habitats by identifying potential corridors of land that can be restored and / or managed for nature. A collaboration of Surrey University, Surrey Wildlife Trust, Buglife and Painshill Park is developing the application. They are using past and current very high resolution satellite imagery of sites in Surrey with citizen-sourced observations, AI and ML to pinpoint which areas of land could be joined up with similar habitats. The sites include Painshill Park, Quarry Hangers, Chobham Common and Puttenham Common.
Find out more on the SCO: https://www.spaceclimateobservatory.org/space4nature
Strata
Zoom in on Somalia to find Strata – a mapping platform created by a collaboration between United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under the EU-UNEP Climate Change, Environment, and Security Partnership. The methodology and prototype of the tool were developed in collaboration with Scotland-based Earth Blox and the University of Edinburgh, both members of Space4Climate. The platform is powered by the user-friendly tool Earth Map, based on Google Earth Engine.
Strata can be used to identify hotspots of the greatest stresses caused by the combined impacts of climate change and other factors, such as conflict and fragile economies on the livelihoods of vulnerable communities. The data visualisation platform enables early warning and gives 130+ UN country teams the ability to carry out multi-hazard risk assessments.
Find out more on the SCO: https://www.spaceclimateobservatory.org/strata
Read more about the Space4Nature climate service on our Climate Showcase page.
Space4Climate is the UK Focal Point for SCO and will publish application details when the next window for submissions is open.