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Sentinel-2C Start

Der Sentinel-2C-Satellit wird am 03. September 2024 mit der VEGA-Rakete vom Weltraumbahnhof Kourou in Französisch-Guayana gestartet. Sentinel-2C wird im Rahmen des europäischen Copernicus-Programms hochauflösende Bilder der Erdoberfläche liefern und somit wichtige Daten für Umweltüberwachung, Landnutzungsanalysen und Katastrophenmanagement bereitstellen.

DEEP EXTREMES

Im Rahmen des DEEP EXTREMES-Projekts, das Teil der AI4SCIENCE-Initiative ist, wurde ein neuer Datensatz entwickelt, der globale Hitze- und Dürrekombinationen analysiert. Dieser Datensatz basiert auf langfristigen Klima- und Bodendaten und dient der Erkennung multivariater Ereignisse. Mithilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz werden Methoden entwickelt und in einer Cloud-Umgebung implementiert, um diese Ereignisse vorherzusagen und ihre Dynamik besser zu verstehen. Die Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft wurde durch Workshops in die Weiterentwicklung des Frameworks einbezogen. Den resultierenden Datensatz können Sie sich auf der Website anschauen: Weynants, M., & Gans, F. (2024). Dheed: a global database of dry and hot extreme events, Zenodo.

STELLENANGEBOTE

Head of the Earth Observation Mission Management and Product Quality Division

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 16. August 2024
Ausschreibung durch die ESA

Scientist on EarthCARE Radar/Lidar Data Assimilation

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 18. August 2024
Ausschreibung durch das ECMWF

EO Future Mission End-to-end System Engineer

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 22. August 2024
Ausschreibung durch die ESA

Galileo Principal System Security Engineer

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30. August 2024
Ausschreibung durch die ESA

Galileo Public Regulated Service Engineer

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30. August 2024
Ausschreibung durch die ESA

Research Software Engineer - I/O-Server for Earth System Models

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 03. September 2024
Ausschreibung durch das ECMWF

Scientist for Machine Learning - Atmospheric Composition

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 05. September 2024
Ausschreibung durch das ECMWF

AUSSCHREIBUNGEN

Open Invitations To Tender der ESA (ITTs)

Für weitere Informationen zu den auf ESA Star verfügbaren ITTs besuchen Sie bitte die einzelnen ITTs über die entsprechenden Links.

• SENTINEL ONLINE
  Budget: > 500 K€ · Closing date: 10/09/2024 13:00 CET
• EO ENGINES FOR SDG TARGET AND INDICATOR WORKFLOWS - EXPRO+
  Budget: > 500 K€ · Closing date: 13/09/2024 13:00 CET
• FUTURE EO-1 SEGMENT 2 OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSAL FOR EO INNOVATION
  Budget: 100-200 K€ · Closing date: 30/09/2024 13:00 CET
• TRUTHS GROUND SEGMENT PHASE B2/C/D/E1
  Budget: > 500 K€ · Closing date: 04/10/2024 13:00 CET
• INTERFACING THE CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS AND MODELLING COMMUNITIES
  Budget: > 500 K€ · Closing date: 04/10/2024 13:00 CET

Intended Invitations To Tender (ITTs)

Science

• Ocean Science Clusters Research Opportunities – Land-Ocean Interactions
  Budget: 1,5M€ · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · ITTs coordinated with HE calls including 3 main topics: 1 – Land-ocean transports including Coastal Carbon; Coastal Ocean Dynamics and Long-distance Transports and Ocean Biochemistry; 2 – Ocean observation and science gaps in ocean upper dynamics and 3 – Ocean biology and ecosystems.
• EarthCARE+ - EarthCARE innovation studies for a fast exploitation of the EarthCARE mission
  Budget: ~2M€ · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · Set of parallel studies to foster a fast community effort to maximise the scientific impact of EarhCARE specially beyond its primary mission objectives. Studies shall aim at developing novel methods/products that may enlarge the product portfolio of EarthCARE as well as novel scientific studies that may maximize it scientific Impacts.
• Early preparation of Earth Explores scientific exploitation
  Budget: Parallel studies of ~350K€ each · Open date: Planned n.a. · Exploring S5P SIF over the ocean and assessment of the potential priority areas for FLEX ocean acquisitions; Exploratory studies on the use of HARMONY in synergy with other missions (Sentinel expansion missions) for future potential science and applications.
• Hydrology and water cycle How big an impact do humans have on the water cycle?
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned n.a. · Community effort to advance in the retrievals, validation, and cross-comparison of a new generation of HR hydrological products (e.g., precipitation, soil moisture, snow water equivalent, irrigation, evapotranspiration, ground water…) over Europe and key basins around the world as a reference to undertake a scientific assessment of the impacts of human activities in the water cycle at resolutions compatible with decision making.
• Biodiversity
  Budget: Set of parallel studies. 1.5M€ Overall budget · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · Interdisciplinary Assessment of Ecosystems Change, Vulnerability and Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Pressures in Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems.
• Agriculture science
  Budget: ~1M€ · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · Integrated assessment (satellite, in-situ, modelling, AI) of vegetation/crop stress under multiple stressors; disentangle biotic and abiotic stresses and advance towards early detection of the impact on plants of pests, land degradation and of hydro-climatic stressors and its combined effects (also in preparation for FLEX).

Applications

• World Forest
  Budget: 1,2M€ · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · The activity will develop methodologies for Adaptive and Sustainable Forest Management, aligning with the EU Forest Strategy and global UN goals. It will create innovative tools and indicators for forest parameters like types, structure, disturbance, fires, and restoration, supporting ESA’s work with GFOI and CEOS AFOLU.
• EO for Essential Biodiversity Variables & GBF indicators
  Budget: 600K€ · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · In partnership with GEO BON and BMCC, this activity will explore integrating Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) from satellite remote sensing into the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) adopted at COP 15. The project aims to develop advanced EO solutions for EBVs across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, supporting their inclusion in the GBF monitoring framework and indicators.
• EO Engines for SDG Target and Indicator Dashboard
  Budget: 700K€ · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · The objective of the activity is to customise and integrate state-of-the- art EO data processing and data analytics workflows (called SDG EO Engines) into existing data exploitation platforms, with the goal to demonstrate the value and use of geospatially explicit datasets to produce national statistics on SDG Targets and Indicators, to enable a seamless and cost-effective integration of EO data flows into official statistics on SDGs, and to allow an EO uptake in national processes and systems on SDGs, for different domains of use.

Industry Competitiveness

• Industrializing innovative AI methods
  Budget: 600K€ · Open date: Planned August 2024 · Development and verification of innovative new AI based EO data processing and analysis methods, including clearly defined use case based assessment against requirements specified by cooperating stakeholders. Examples include Graph-AI based methods, integration of EO and HPC Earth system process emulators, causal AI based inference methods etc.
• Novel processing methods for optical, IR and video data
  Budget: 1,4M€ · Open date: Planned August 2024 · Prototype and verify new algorithms and processing methods, include dedicated use cases established in cooperation with relevant stakeholders. Examples include low light level enhancements, low contrast feature extraction, IR super-resolution, video analytics.
• EO for Carbon Markets
  Budget: 800K€ · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · Based on recommendations from the “EO for Carbon Markets Forum,” this project aims to advance Earth observation (EO) use in carbon markets. It will collaborate with policy makers, regulators, and project developers to explore EO technologies that enhance the quality, transparency, and credibility of carbon trading.

Digital Innovation

• Information Factory Pathfinders
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · Exploration of different strategies link EO and non-EO sata operationally at regional and national level. Up to 5 contracts to address different stakeholders.
• Information-as-a Service pathfinders
  Budget: 600K€ · Open date: Planned Q2 2024 · Showcase the propagation of ESA-funded open-source processor developments (e.g., Sen4CAP, Sen2like) to a selfsustainable on-demand usable service for the community.
• Continental-scale products as a service
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · Explore how an existing continental/global product can be industrialised as a pay-per-use service, allowing call-off ondemand with regional, continental, or global scale with customised parametrisation and resolution.

FORSIGHT

• Foresight Exploratory Sprints
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · This activity aims to create an agile environment to rapidly design and prototype a suite of highly innovative EO solutions (series of small contracts), capitalizing on the latest development in digital technologies such as AI, internet evolution and blockchain.
• xAI Explainability for large-scale EO analytics
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q1 2025 · The activity aims to foster uptake of AI-based EO solutions by quantifying better uncertainties and integrating explainability in the machine learning black box.
• Quantum and Hybrid Computing for EO
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · This activity aims to explore further the potential (and limitations) of new computing techniques, such as quantum computing to deploy scalable machine learning techniques for EO.
• Generative AI for EO data
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · Generative AI is the new wave in machine learning. This activity aims to explore the potential of state-of-the-art generative AI techniques for EO (in particular regarding the fast generation of synthetic data, filling-in of data gaps, enhancement of resolution, simulations, agent modelling) to rapidly detect and classify features in large amount of EO data from multiple satellites (e.g. Sentinel, next gen Sentinel, Prisma, EnMap, IRIDE, EE,etc..) and predict their evolution.
• Distributed AI for federated EO learning
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q1 2025 · This activity will explore decentralized AI techniques to enhance Earth observation (EO) and mega-constellations, allowing each network node to contribute to a unified AI model. This approach aims to improve scalability, reduce latency, and enhance privacy and security by keeping data localized. The initiative will also investigate privacy machine learning and AI safety.
• Virtual EO Constellation
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · This activity is part of a family of activities on edge computing. This specific call will explore how to enable continuous learning from different types of data (e.g. optical, radar) can be implemented at the edge starting from “raw” data by integrating the latest measurement to update the machine learning model.
• Blockchain for EO
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q2 2025 · This initiative follows up on a study of Web3, exploring the evolution of the internet and blockchain technologies. The goal is to develop a set of use cases demonstrating the benefits of distributed ledger technologies for Earth observation (EO). Examples include ensuring data traceability, creating digital assets, and enabling new business models.
• AI4EO Framework for Sensor Enhancement
  Budget: n.a. · Open date: Planned Q1 2025 · This project aims to promote the development of a versatile AI-based coding framework and toolkits for sensor fusion and enhancement. It will include automatic coding capabilities to enable users to quickly fuse and enhance data of diverse types.

Sentinel User Preperation

• SUP-3: Fundamental research and algorithm, products development, and validation
  Budget: 4M€ (2years) · Open date: Planned Q4 2024 · Development and validation of innovative methods and products will emphasize synergistic opportunities across various scientific domains (Polar, carbon, coastal processes, hydrology) beyond the primary objectives of individual missions. This effort will involve a series of concurrent projects addressing key priority areas identified through consultant events related to the Sustainable Urban Planning (SUP) initiative.
• SUP-4/5: Novel Processing Methods for Sentinel Expansion class datasets
  Budget: 1,5M€ (5 contracts) · Open date: Planned Q3 2024 · A competitive tender is being launched to industrialize innovative processing approaches for L-band SAR, Mid/Thermal IR, and Hyperspectral datasets. Bidders will have the opportunity to propose their own areas, ensuring consideration for datasets where innovative processing methods are less developed (e.g., CO2).

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)

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