EARSC Activities & Projects
EARSC Showcases Earth Observation at Smart City Expo World Congress 2025
The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) is delighted to announce its active participation as an Ecosystem Partner at the upcoming Smart City Expo World Congress, taking place 4–6 November 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. This leading global event on urban innovation gathers decision-makers, industry leaders, and innovators from across the world to shape the cities of tomorrow.
EARSC Catalogue of Services for Civil Security and Defence
EARSC developed a comphrensive catalogue of products and services our memers offer in the domain of civil security and defece. Donwload the catalogue and epxlore the solutions the European EO indsutry offers and how they are used in several key sectors such as: Maritime Security, Critical Infrastructure protectsion, disasters and gehozards and others.
Policy Observatory
Under the Policy Observatory, EARSC is monitoring relevant EU policies and advocating for increased use of EO services to support policy-makers. Read our latest publications on:
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EARSC Letter on Enhancing the European Defence Capability Domains with Earth Observation (July 2025)
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EARSC Perspective on the EU Ports Strategy – September 2025
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EARSC Response: Roadmap towards Nature Credits – September 2025
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EARSC Perspective on the European Data Union Strategy – July 2025
StatEO26: Earth Observation for Official Statistics & Policy Indicators — Call for Abstracts now open
The European Space Agency will host StatEO26 – The EO for Official Statistics and Policy Indicators Reporting Conference at ESA-ESRIN on 5–7 May 2026. Co-organised with Eurostat (DG ESTAT), JRC, DG DEFIS, DG ENV, EARSC, EEA, OECD, UNSD, FAO, UNECE, the University of Hannover, and Biodiversity Alliance & CIAT, StatEO26 convenes national statistical offices, mapping and environmental agencies, EO providers, researchers and policy stakeholders to accelerate how satellite data feeds official statistics and policy reporting at national and international levels.
Advancing EU capacity to monitor SDGs: Highlights from the SDGs-EYES Project
The SDGs-EYES project - a three-year Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action (January 2023 – January 2026) - has been actively working to deliver a portfolio of results aimed at strengthening Europe’s capacity to monitor the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) via Copernicus services. By combining technical innovation, stakeholder engagement and policy dialogue, the project demonstrates how Earth Observation (EO) and data-driven services can support evidence-based decision making.
New from the CREDIBLE Project
Project Credible’s partners, together with invited experts, produced recently a series of reports on the challenges and solutions towards the adoption of carbon farming and regenerative agriculture across Europe.[ .]
The latest from the Sentinel Benefits Study
Visit the Sentinel Benefits Study website and discover the new published cases showing the economic and societal value of Sentinel data.
Members News
Latitudo 40 shapes the future of geospatial analysis through AI agents at ESA Acceleration Days
Discover how Naples-based Latitudo 40 is designing the future of EO and space data by integrating generative AI and Large Language Models by developing a fully functioning AI agent with the purpose to make geospatial insights open to the wider public [...]
AI-powered Asbestos Detection: Scaling Urban Health and Safety Across Spain
COTESA has been awarded the asbestos census monitoring project for the province of Alicante, extending a proven methodology already applied in multiple Spanish cities and regions. [...]
Tracasa Global: major impact in EDF with Argos project
Tracasa Global, public company of the Government of Navarre, in Spain, and member of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) since 2024, is having a major impact in one project of the European 2024 Defence Fund call. [...]
WADIT - Water Digital Twi
The Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60EC) requires Member States to use their River Basin Management Plans and Programmes of Measures to protect and restore water bodies. At National level, the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies established a database of water volumes used for irrigation. The Regions, on their end, must fulfil the validation of such data, and the quantification and update of water volumes. [...]
Prevention and Management of Coastal Erosion Risks through EO and geo-information
The combined effects of climate change and human activities has increased the frequency and severity of natural disasters and hazards, resulting in negative impacts on the environment, economy, and human life. To address this issue, many institutions, organizations and stakeholder authorities are shifting their focus from emergency response to disaster risk reduction, planning and mitigation. In this sense, to address the issue of coastal erosion, the Managing Authority of the Central Macedonia Region has funded a project for the creation of a digital Observatory the serves as a source of vital information on the state of coastal erosion within the region. [...]
e-GEOS and Digital Twins: technology and innovation for understanding and protecting territories
e-GEOS was recently awarded the leadership of an ambitious strategic project to build a digital twin of the entire Italian territory, with the aim of deepening morphological knowledge of the national land and supporting its management. This is one of many examples of how the company is developing innovative digital twin solutions to understand and protect territories, strengthening security, resilience and sustainability. [...]
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Global Datasets Available in Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem
The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) is the official access point and cloud processing platform for Sentinel imagery. But not all stakeholders want a satellite image: for many users, data processing is out of reach, and they want direct quantitative results such as land cover or bio-physical quantities. [...]
Administration and private sector highlight the benefits of integrating satellite technologies in emergency management
Barcelona hosted a conference on the use of space technologies in disaster risk management, promoted by the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) and the Eurisy network. The IEEC and the Catalan Government have organised the conference in the framework of the NewSpace Strategy of Catalonia, in collaboration with the Spanish Space Agency (AEE) and the Spanish Government. Two live simulations have shown the potential of space technologies in emergency situations: one for maritime rescue in the Port of Barcelona and another for sending alerts to the population via satellite. [...]
Results of the First Earth Observation Use Case Ideas Competitionfor the Private Sector
The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC — Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) coordinates the Earth Observation Use Case Ideas Competition for the Private Sector. This initiative is framed within the NewSpace Strategy of Catalonia promoted by the Government of Catalonia with the participation of the IEEC, the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) and the i2CAT Foundation. The goal of this competition is to obtain innovative proposals for Earth Observation use cases that the NewSpace ecosystem can offer to the Catalan private business sector. This article showcases the main results from the first edition. [...]
Eradiate Workshop 2025: Advancing 3D Radiative Transfer Modelling
The Eradiate Workshop 2025 will gather the community of scientists and engineers working with the open-source 3D radiative transfer model Eradiate, to exchange on new developments, applications, and collaborative opportunities. [...]
Rayference Radiometric Calibration Reference Published
Rayference has published a comprehensive reference for radiometric calibration of satellite sensors, reinforcing the accuracy and traceability of Earth Observation climate data records. [...]
GAF AG to upgrade Burkina Faso’s mining cadastre system (eMC+) under the World Bank-funded PARGFM project
GAF AG, an e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) company, has been awarded a World Bank-funded contract to modernise and expand Burkina Faso’s mining cadastre system eMC+ within the framework of the Support to Land and Mining Management Strengthening Project (PARGFM) at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development. The system update of GAF AG’s computerised mining cadastre platform eMC+ aims to reinforce efficiency, digital governance and customer service, thereby ensuring information transparency and accessibility within EITI-standards, and fostering land and mining cadastre interoperability in Burkina Faso. [...]
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