ESM Research Projects - Selection
Livestock Production Scenarios (AnimalChange)
AnimalChange creates scenarios that project 20 and 40 years into the future to allow policymakers to see what impact climate change is likely to have on livestock production in Europe, Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. More
The Next Step in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD-PAC)
REDD-PAC aims to develop technical know-how and capacity in designing efficient, effective and environmentally relevant policy strategies for the on-going UN-REDD programme. More
Economic, Social and Political Conditions for Satisfying the World Food Needs (FoodSecure)
The FoodSecure project responds to the challenge of food shortages and volatility by enabling stakeholders to design sustainable strategies to assess and address the short- and long-term challenges of food security. More
Quantifying Projected Impacts Under 2°C Warming (IMPACT2C)
IMPACT2C enhances knowledge, quantifies climate change impacts, and adopts an analytical structure that includes climate and impacts modelling, vulnerabilities, risks and economic costs, as well as potential responses, for Europe. More
Assessment of Northern Eurasian Forests (ZAPAS)
The ZAPÁS project is intended to make space-based biomass inventory assessments more reliable for boreal forests of Northern Eurasia. More
Earth Observation in the Balkans (BalkanGEONet)
BalkanGEONet is designed to strengthen existing Earth Observation research and participation among the Balkan countries and encourage those countries not yet involved to join the GEO initiative. More
Extreme Weather Impacts on Carbon Sinks (CARBO-Extreme)
European ecosystems help stabilize the atmosphere by soaking up significant amounts of the carbon in fossil fuel emissions, but researchers are concerned that the effectiveness of these carbon sinks might be diminished by expected increases in extreme weather. More
Improving Earth Observation Methodology (EGIDA)
EGIDA is a technical project to create a standard methodology to support GEOSS, the Global Earth Observations System of Systems, through development of evaluation processes, assessment indexes, and databases. More
Energy Use Impacts on the Environment (EnerGEO)
EnerGEO assesses the current and future impact of energy use on the environment by linking environmental observation systems with the processes involved in exploiting energy resources. More
Reducing GHG Emissions Uncertainties (GESAPU)
Research in the more than ten years since the Kyoto Protocol has shown that the methods used to measure and inventory greenhouse gas emissions have significant uncertainties and gaps. GESAPU is intended to reduce the uncertainties of GHG emissions in Poland and Ukraine. More
Sources and Sinks for Greenhouse Gases (GHG-Europe)
GHG-Europe is analyzing European agricultural and forestry lands to determine both the sources and sinks for three major greenhouse gases and determine what percentage of those gases is anthropogenic. More
Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity (ISAC)
High-frequency, high-resolution imaging from new satellites is providing detailed agricultural information that will allow scientists to better monitor the impacts of drought and climate change on crops and model future agricultural productivity under different climate change scenarios. More
Life Cycle Impacts of Goods, Services, Activities (LC-IMPACT)
The LC-IMPACT project is developing methods to assess the environmental life cycle impact of a vast number of goods, services and activities. The assessments examine the environmental costs of such things as erosion caused by land use and threats from toxic substances used in production processes. More
Envisioning Paradigm Shifts in Society (PASHMINA)
The PASHMINA project uses complex modeling to create scenarios that envision changes in the use of energy, transportation, land, and the environment 20 to 40 years into the future. More
Impact of Technological Change in Europe (PROSUITE)
PROSUITE is a collaboration to develop the tools needed to predict the impact technological changes will have on Europe’s environment, economies, and social institutions over the next several decades. More
Impacts of Glacial Retreat in the Andes (PRAA)
PRAA uses pilot projects in three Tropical Andes countries to help local ecosystems and economies better adapt to the many impacts of the rapid glacier retreat underway throughout the region. More
EuroGEOSS — A European Approach to GEOSS
EuroGEOSS contributes to the international effort to create the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) by making existing systems that gather data on forestry, drought, and biodiversity interoperable and easier to use. More
Weather Forecasts and Soil Data for African Farms (FarmSupport)
FarmSupport is developing an application to provide farmers in Ethiopia and Kenya with weather forecasts and soil moisture information to help them make better agricultural decisions. More
Operational Global Carbon Observing System (GEOCarbon)
The GEOCarbon Project will coordinate the contribution of European and international research institutes to the development of an Operational Global Integrated Carbon Observation and Analysis System. More
Impact Quantification of Global Changes (Global IQ)
A primary objective of the project is to estimate socio-economic impacts arising from global changes by using economic models. More
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on China’s Agro-Ecosystem
Researchers are creating a multi-scale agro-ecosystem model by combining two leading crop models, allowing for an analysis of both farm-level and regional agricultural dynamics that will assist in developing strategies to climate change-induced changes to China’s agriculture. More
Impact of European Union Consumption on Deforestation
The EU is a major importer of food and timber products from countries with significant deforestation rates, and these European trade and consumption patterns may cause deforestation in distant lands. More
European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies (EC4MACS)
EC4MACS provides scientific and economic analyses of policies in support of Europe’s Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and the European Climate Change Programme in order to better understand how to further reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. More
Using GEO for Early Warning and Food Security in East Africa (GEOSAF)
GEOSAF researchers will create short-term soil moisture forecasts using several crop growth and soil moisture models. More
Collecting in-situ Data for Earth Observation Product Validation via Social Games (LandSpotting)
LandSpotting aims to improve the quality of forest or cropland area land cover information by vastly increasing the amount of in-situ validation data available for calibration and validation of satellite-derived land cover. More
Restructuring Systems to Limit Climate Change (LIMITS)
LIMITS is examining how to fundamentally restructure energy systems and land-use management practices on a global scale in order to limit warming from climate change to two degrees Celsius. More
Mapping and the citizen sensor (ICT COST Action TD1202)
Accurate and timely maps are a fundamental resource but their production in a changing world is a major scientific and practical grand challenge. Remote sensing provides images for mapping at unparalleled rates but the ground reference data needed in map production and evaluation are difficult to acquire. More