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The quantity and quality of satellite-geodetic measurements of tectonic deformation have increased dramatically over the past two decades improving our ability to observe active tectonic processes. We now routinely respond to earthquakes using satellites, mapping surface ruptures and estimating the distribution of slip on faults at depth for most continental earthquakes. Studies directly link earthquakes to their causative faults allowing us to calculate how resulting changes in crustal stress can influence future seismic hazard. This revolution in space-based observation is driving advances in models that can explain the time-dependent surface deformation and the long-term evolution of fault zones and tectonic landscapes.

The study of active tectonics is primarily concerned with the deformation of the Earth’s surface. This process results in the growth of mountains, rifting of continents and evolution of the geomorphic landscape. We aim to understand the material properties and processes that control the distribution of strain in the Earth’s crust, from mobile belts to rigid cratons. An important consequence of the movement of the Earth’s crust is that the slow accumulation of strain in the cold, brittle upper part of the crust (which builds up over hundreds to thousands of years) must eventually be released, often in earthquakes. Understanding the fundamental processes of tectonics will contribute to mitigating the growing risk of an increasingly urbanised population exposed to such hazards1.

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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new method for accurately measuring crop yields using satellite images. Scientists hope their new strategy will help researchers track agricultural productivity in developing countries where farming data is limited.

“Improving agricultural productivity is going to be one of the main ways to reduce hunger and improve livelihoods in poor parts of the world,” Marshall Burke, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Stanford, said in a news release. “But to improve agricultural productivity, we first have to measure it, and unfortunately this isn’t done on most farms around the world.”

Until recently, the resolution of satellite images wasn’t sufficient for the kind of analysis proposed by Burke and his colleagues. Now, satellites the size of a toaster can take and send high-resolution photographs of Earth’s surface.

“You can get lots of them up there, all capturing very small parts of the land surface at very high resolution,” said David Lobell, an associate professor of earth sciences. “Any one satellite doesn’t give you very much information, but the constellation of them actually means that you’re covering most of the world at very high resolution and at very low cost. That’s something we never really had even a few years ago.”

Researchers tested their crop yield prediction strategy in Western Kenya where small farms are plentiful. They combined on-the-ground field work, meeting and interviewing local farmers, with a model designed to interpret satellite images. The model uses local weather conditions and an understanding of how crops develop to predict yields based on satellite images.

Scientists used their field work to verify the accuracy of their new model, described in the journal PNAS.

“Just combining the imagery with computer-based crop models allows us to make surprisingly accurate predictions, just based on the imagery alone, of actual productivity on the field,” Burke concluded.

Turkey and Lobell are now working on scaling up their predictive model to measure yields in other parts of Africa.

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DigitalGlobe, Inc., the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the launch of a new product, SecureWatch, optimized for International Defense and Intelligence customers.

SecureWatch is a web-based subscription service that gives intelligence agencies and defense organizations access to DigitalGlobe’s industry-leading 7 billion sq. km. imagery library and millions of square kilometers of daily image collections.

SecureWatch capabilities are designed with the flexibility to evolve to meet a growing market demand for a single platform that fuses multi-source geospatial intelligence content including satellite imagery at various resolutions and refresh intervals, geographic information system layers, tactically significant news stories, timely social media posts, real-time transportation data, and more.

“Our customers have a demanding job, and they deserve the best information available to face threats across both maritime and terrestrial borders from terrorism, humanitarian crisis, and natural disasters,” said Dan Jablonsky, DigitalGlobe Senior Vice President of International Defense and Intelligence. “With SecureWatch, our customers will now have 24/7 access to tap into and download the latest available satellite imagery, so they can focus on mission success.”

Images from the complete constellation of DigitalGlobe Earth observation satellites, including WorldView-4 (30 cm), WorldView-3 (30 cm), WorldView-2 (46 cm), GeoEye-1 (40 cm), WorldView-1 (50 cm) and legacy satellites, are available through SecureWatch. Customers can view imagery anywhere on the globe at high resolution, simply using a web browser. Subscribers can also stream images to preferred image exploitation software such as Esri ArcGIS and Textron RemoteView, or they can download for use in offline workflows.

“Most imagery services limit customers to specific geographic areas, or only provide imagery at degraded resolutions. SecureWatch uniquely leverages the power of cloud computing and the world’s best constellation of satellite imaging assets,” said John Cartwright, DigitalGlobe Vice President of International Defense and Intelligence Product Strategy. “This combination of technologies provides our mission partners with authoritative intelligence by enabling them to visualize any location in the world as it looked two days ago or years ago, and at 30 cm resolution, the sharpest imagery commercially available.”

In addition to accessing imagery, the tools included with a subscription to SecureWatch enable a wide variety of intelligence workflows to give users confidence when making the decisions that matter most. With just a web browser and Internet access, users can accurately measure coordinates, create annotated image graphics for reports and briefings, produce videos that show how areas have changed over time, and remotely view imagery from a smartphone or tablet when working in the field.

“We believe that these new capabilities will make the power of commercial satellite imagery accessible to many more stakeholders in the production and consumption of intelligence,” said Dan Jablonsky. “When our mission partners work with SecureWatch, they will find they are more empowered than ever to solve and communicate the challenges we face on our complex and changing planet.”

About DigitalGlobe

DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution Earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the world’s leading constellation, our imagery solutions deliver unmatched coverage and capacity to meet our customers’ most demanding mission requirements. Each day customers in defense and intelligence, public safety, civil agencies, map making and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, navigation technology, and providers of location-based services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and expertise to gain actionable insight.

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Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-res photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites.

The approach, detailed in the February 13 issue of the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be used to estimate agricultural productivity and test intervention strategies in poor regions of the world where data are currently extremely scarce.

“Improving agricultural productivity is going to be one of the main ways to reduce hunger and improve livelihoods in poor parts of the world,” said study-coauthor Marshall Burke, an assistant professor in the department of Earth System Science at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. “But to improve agricultural productivity, we first have to measure it, and unfortunately this isn’t done on most farms around the world.”

Earth-observing satellites have been around for over three decades, but most of the imagery they capture has not been high-enough resolution to visualize the very small agricultural fields typical in developing countries. Recently, however, satellites have shrunk in both size and cost while simultaneously improving in resolution, and today there are several companies competing to launch refrigerator- and shoebox-sized satellites into space that take high resolution images of the earth.

“You can get lots of them up there, all capturing very small parts of the land surface at very high resolution,” said study-coauthor David Lobell, an associate professor in the Department of Earth System Science. “Any one satellite doesn’t give you very much information, but the constellation of them actually means that you’re covering most of the world at very high resolution and at very low cost. That’s something we never really had even a few years ago.”

In the new study, Burke and Lobell set out to test whether the images from this new wave of satellites are good enough reliably estimate crop yields. The pair focused on an area in Western Kenya where there are a lot of smallholder farmers that grow maize, or corn, on small, half-acre or one-acre lots. “This was an area where there was already a lot of existing field work,” Lobell said. “It was an ideal site to test our approach.”

The scientists compared two different methods for estimating agricultural productivity yields using satellite imagery. The first approach involved “ground truthing,” or conducting ground surveys to check the accuracy of yield estimates calculated using the satellite data, which was donated by the company Terra Bella. For this part of the study, Burke and his field team spent weeks conducting house-to-house surveys with his staff, talking to farmers and gathering information about individual farms.

“We get a lot of great data, but it’s incredibly time consuming and fairly expensive, meaning we can only survey at most a thousand or so farmers during one campaign,” Burke said. “If you want to scale up our operation, you don’t want to have to recollect ground survey data everywhere in the world.”

For this reason, the team also tested an alternative “uncalibrated” approach that did not depend on ground survey data to make predictions. Instead, it uses a computer model of how crops grow, along with information on local weather conditions, to help interpret the satellite imagery and predict yields.

“Just combining the imagery with computer-based crop models allows us to make surprisingly accurate predictions, just based on the imagery alone, of actual productivity on the field,” Burke said.

The researchers have plans to scale up their project and test their approach across more of Africa. “Our aspiration is to make accurate seasonal predictions of agricultural productivity for every corner of Sub-Saharan Africa,” Burke said. “Our hope is that this approach we’ve developed using satellites could allow a huge leap in in our ability to understand and improve agricultural productivity in poor parts of the world.”

Lobell is also the deputy director of Stanford’s the Center on Food Security and the Environment and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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The Louisiana coastline is sinking under the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about one football field of land every hour (about 18 square miles of land lost in a year).

But within this sinking region, two river deltas are growing. The Atchafalaya River and its diversion channel, Wax Lake Outlet, are gaining about one football field of new land every 11 and 8 hours, respectively (1.5 and 2 square miles per year).

Last fall, a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, showed that radar, lidar and spectral instruments mounted on aircraft can be used to study the growing deltas, collecting data that can help scientists better understand how coastal wetlands will respond to global sea level rise.

The basics of delta building are understood, but many questions remain about how specific characteristics, such as vegetation types, tides, currents and the shape of the riverbed, affect a delta’s growth or demise. That’s partly because it’s hard to do research in a swamp.

“These factors are usually studied using boats and instruments that have to be transported through marshy and difficult terrain,” said Christine Rains of JPL, an assistant flight coordinator for the program. “This campaign was designed to show that wetlands can also be measured with airborne remote sensing over a large area.”

JPL researchers fly over the Louisiana coastline at least once a year to keep track of subsidence (sinking) and changes in levees. The most recent airborne flights, however, focused on the growing deltas – specifically, flowing water and vegetation.

JPL’s Marc Simard, principal investigator for the campaign, explained that on a delta, water flows in every direction, including uphill. “Water flows not only through the main channels of the rivers but also through the marshes,” he explained. “There is also the incoming tide, which pushes water back uphill. The tide enhances the flow of water out of the main channels into the marshes.”

When the tide goes out, water drains from the marshes, carrying sediment and carbon. The JPL instruments took measurements during both rising and falling tides to capture these flows. They also made the first complete measurement of the slope of the water surface and topography of the river bottom for both rivers from their origin at the Mississippi River to the ocean – necessary information for understanding the rivers’ flow speeds.

Some types of marsh vegetation resist flowing water better than others, as the new measurements have documented. Simard said, “We were really surprised and impressed by how the water level changes within the marshes. In some places, the water changes by 10 centimeters [four inches] in an hour or two. In others, it’s only three or four centimeters [an inch or inch-and-a-half]. You can see amazing patterns in the remote sensing measurements.”

Three JPL airborne instruments, flying on three planes, were needed to observe the flows and the movement of carbon with the water. The team measured rising and falling water in vegetated areas using the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) instrument.

They measured the same changes in open water with the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) lidar. The Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) was used to estimate the sediment, carbon and nitrogen concentrations in the water.

Now that the team has demonstrated that these airborne instruments can make precise and detailed measurements in this difficult environment, the researchers plan to use the new data to improve models of how water flows through marshes. Scientists use these models to study how coastal marshes will cope with rising sea levels. With so many measurements available as a reality check, Simard said, “Our models will have to catch up with the observations now.”

View a slideshow of the growth of the two deltas over the last 30 years

BOX IT The Atchafalaya, the Mississippi and unintended consequences

If humans hadn’t intervened, the Atchafalaya River would now be the Mississippi River’s outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. The river has changed channels this way six or eight times over the last 5,000 years, but not since European settlers moved in. By the 1960s, the Atchafalaya had captured about 30 percent of the Mississippi’s flow.

Then engineers went to work. With levees, locks and other structures, they preserved the status quo in concrete. The Atchafalaya still diverts about 30 percent of water from the Mississippi, and the rest still flows down the historic channel. The intervention saved New Orleans and Baton Rouge from being marooned on a giant swamp.

For the two rivers, the new construction had completely different effects. Limiting the volume of the Atchafalaya has kept it and its diversion channel, Wax Lake Outlet, flowing more slowly. In those lazy rivers, sediment can settle and marsh plants can take root, forming new wetlands.

On the Mississippi, levees trap sediment, limiting the material for new soil downstream. Levees also accelerate the river’s flow speed so that remaining sediment gets shot out the river’s mouth into the ocean depths. The Mississippi has lost its capacity to build wetlands naturally.

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The quantity and quality of satellite-geodetic measurements of tectonic deformation have increased dramatically over the past two decades improving our ability to observe active tectonic processes.

We now routinely respond to earthquakes using satellites, mapping surface ruptures and estimating the distribution of slip on faults at depth for most continental earthquakes. Studies directly link earthquakes to their causative faults allowing us to calculate how resulting changes in crustal stress can influence future seismic hazard. This revolution in space-based observation is driving advances in models that can explain the time-dependent surface deformation and the long-term evolution of fault zones and tectonic landscapes.

The next decade should see us begin to discriminate between earthquake models using more and better Earth Observation data that describe the evolution of deformation in space and time for an increasing number of earthquake faults. The models make specific predictions about the temporal and spatial behavior of deformation that can be discriminated with long time-series of observations. At the same time, complementary data from seismic imaging and rheological constraints from rock mechanics will be vital in solving this problem.

Satellite geodesy offers the opportunity to measure the complete earthquake cycle: first, coseismic slip in the seismogenic upper crust, its relationship with aftershocks and fault segmentation; second, postseismic deformation localized on fault structures as shallow and deep afterslip, or more widely distributed through the ductile lower crust and upper mantle flow as viscoelastic relaxation; and third, interseismic strain accumulation across fault zones between earthquakes. By using the high spatial and temporal resolution of satellite observations, it will become possible to determine the time-dependent rates of deformation as well as the spatial extent of shear zones and weak zones beneath faults. Improved measurements of these processes in time and space will allow us to better constrain the lateral variability and depth-dependent rheology within the crust.

On a broader scale, Earth Observation data are now reaching the spatial resolution and accuracy to enable us to assess the fundamental mechanics of how continents deform. We have known for decades that the continents do not deform as large rigid plates like the oceans, but the kinematics and dynamics of continental deformation are still unclear. The debate has historically been polarized between two end member views. In one, the continents have been considered to act like a viscous fluid, with internal buoyancy forces playing a key role in controlling the distribution of deformation, and faults only acting as passive markers reflecting the deformation of a deeper, controlling layer. The alternative view has been that the continents can be considered to be a collection of rigid blocks, each behaving in essence like an independent plate. Resolving this issue is important for earthquake hazard assessment–we need to understand the degree to which deformation and earthquakes are focused on the major, ‘block-bounding’ faults, as opposed to being distributed throughout the continents. Long time-series of surface deformation data from Earth Observation satellites will enable us to quantify the degree to which deformation occurs away from the major ‘block-bounding’ faults

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Washington, Jan 3 : NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imagery website was recently updated allowing the public to choose natural or enhanced color images of the Earth and even zoom into an area on the globe.

The enhanced color images make land features more visible, said Sasha Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. This is achieved by enhancing low intensity pixel values. The effect of atmospheric haze caused by air molecular scattering and attenuation of solar light by ozone has been also removed.

EPIC is a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard NOAAs DSCOVR satellite that takes 10 narrow-band spectral images of the entire sunlit face of Earth from 317 to 780 nanometers.

EPIC takes a new picture approximately every hour from mid-April to mid-October or every two hours for the rest of the year.

EPIC images reveal how the planet would look to human eyes, capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests, and the distinct blues of different seas, read the NASA website.

The website was initially launched in 2015 after NOAAs Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR satellite achieved orbit almost one million miles from Earth. DSCOVR is a NOAA Earth observation and space weather satellite launched by Space-X on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle on February 11, 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The website upgrade includes a new magnification feature where users get a zoomed-in look at an area under their cursor. Magnified areas appear in a circular box on screen.

A new Image Information box on the left-hand side of the website allows for downloading the image on screen (by clicking on a down arrow). There is also information that provides the EPIC cameras distance to Earth and to the sun. The Sun-Earth-Vehicle angle is also listed.

A map of the Earth in the Image Information box shows the user which side of the Earth is being shown by the EPIC image.

Below the Image Information section is a new Slideshow controls section. Users can click on the right facing arrow () to move through all of the latest days images. By clicking on the arrow, the viewer will see the images update as the Earth rotates, providing views of the whole planet.

The most recent images are always on the front of the webpage. To find images for a specific date, users can click on the date in the slideshow controls box, and a drop down calendar will allow selection of images from another date (other than the latest date).

A filmstrip of Earth images lines the bottom of the page. Those are the images taken by EPIC for that day that are selected by clicking the arrows or the thumbnails.

The website also contains galleries of images and animations from specific events like moon transits. The basic information about the EPIC camera is in the EPIC section, and information about the imagery is found in the About section. A link to NOAAs site is in the DSCOVR section.

DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. NOAA is operating DSCOVR from its NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, and will process the space weather data at the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado.

From there, the SWPC will distribute the DSCOVR data to users within the United States and around the world. The data will be archived at NOAAs National Geophysical Data Center, also in Boulder.

Credits: NASA/NOAA
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More than 60 organisations have applied to become part of the growing family of Copernicus ambassadors across Europe. The Commission’s objective is to engage with national, regional and local stakeholders for Copernicus user uptake through the creation of a Network of Copernicus helpdesks/information points called the Copernicus Relays.

The members of this new community will be the representatives of Copernicus on the ground and will be promoting the benefits of the EU’s Earth Observation Programme. They will be the voice, but also the eyes and the ears, of the Commission at local and regional level to ensure that user needs are integrated into the Programme and to maximise its use at local and operational level.

The Copernicus Relays will act as local champions, coordinating and promoting activities around the Copernicus Programme, its benefits, and opportunities for local residents and businesses.

Members of this new Network will play a key role in widening the community of Copernicus users, developing new applications and maximising the benefits from Copernicus data and information.

The network is part of a wider toolkit of initiatives designed to provide information about the programme and address any concerns from citizens about accessing data and information from Copernicus. In addition, these localised one-stop shops will spread the word about opportunities set up by the Commission to support the development of innovative applications and new business models.

The Relays constitute the first milestone of the recently adopted Space Strategy for Europe.

The Relays will be in place in the first quarter of 2017. Consult the list of Copernicus Relays (as of November 2016) and get to know more about Members of the Copernicus Family.

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Hatfield’s Dr. Andy Dean presented at the World Bank Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) e-learning event.


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At the United National COP-21 in Paris in December 2015, the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a Memorandum of Intent addressing a series of thematic application areas, including climate resilience. This World Bank-ESA partnership helps PPCR task teams build climate resilience at scale by fostering innovative approaches, knowledge exchange, and capacity building in national hydro-meteorological services, climate services, and satellite Earth Observation (EO) at national and project levels.

In 2015, Hatfield supported the PPCR Focal Point Team with satellite EO content for a comprehensive Weather and Climate Services e-learning course, so task teams can learn directly from experienced specialists. In September 2016 a PPCR Climate Resilience and Earth Observation webinar was conducted to provide further information and a forum for discussion with experts.

The webinar was chaired by Mafalda Duarte, Program Manager of the Climate Investment Funds. James Close, the World Bank Group’s Director, Climate Change Cross-Cutting Solution Area, introduced the session. He emphasized the importance the World Bank places on building resilience in development work, and how crucial data and analytics are when making decisions on resilience and climate change. Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programs, provided an overiew of ESA’s commitment to satellite EO through the Copernicus Programme.

Hatfield’s Dr. Andy Dean illustrated the use of ESA’s Sentinel satellites, which provide free and open data, in national climate services and climate resilience. ESA Earth Observation Data Scientist, Pierre Philippe Mathieu, further explained how climate variables can be monitored from space.

Hatfield experts will also help task teams identify opportunities to integrate satellite EO in future PPCR investments.

The webinar was Session 5 of the PPCR Learning Series. This ongoing e-learning series is jointly organized by the Climate Policy-PPCR Focal Point team, the Climate Investment Funds and the Hydromet, Climate Services and Resilience Community of Practice. The 1.2 billion USD PPCR is a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), working with 26 countries and two regions.

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Munich RE Taps Massive ESA Satellite Data to Insure Organizations from Natural Disasters

BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), announced the Earth Observation Analysis service, a cloud service powered by the SAP HANA® platform. The two organizations have been working together since early 2016, facilitating access to a new field of business opportunities in the geospatial context. They have done this by combining the power of SAP HANA with ESA’s accurate, timely, and easily accessible Earth observation data, especially from the Copernicus program. Today at SAP® TechEd Barcelona, reinsurance company Munich Re showcases its use of the Earth Observation Analysis service for gaining insights and predicting potential future impact from historic and current data.

“Every year, wildfires affect nature, people, their homes and businesses,” said Andreas Siebert, Head of Geospatial Solutions, Munich Re. “While the progress of a fire itself is hard to predict, this new service from SAP, leveraging satellite data from ESA, allows us to accurately calculate costs and risks related to wildfires and even gain insights into the future probability of wildfires. This will help us to keep costs down for our clients.”

Powered by SAP HANA, the Earth Observation Analysis service provides a standardized interface for quick, easy consumption of detailed analytics and clusters them according to customer needs. Government agencies and companies active in all industries, from insurance and reinsurance to mill products, mining, utilities, and retail, can leverage the application programming interface (API) delivered through the Earth Observation Analysis service. Based on continuous access to historical and real-time satellite data from around the world, they can make improved business decisions concerning elementary industry-specific questions. Questions may include where to place new power lines, where to build a new store or when to harvest crops. Ultimately, the service helps business users and data scientists reduce the complexity of obtaining reliable insights.

“Our partnership with ESA paves the way to a new field of geospatial business applications, making it possible to close the gap between traditional Earth observation and a digitalized business world,” said Dr. Carsten Linz, Business Development Officer and Global Head, Center for Digital Leadership, SAP. “That opens a bright future for space-related applications, such as digital farming, gas pipeline management, and the improved planning of smart cities – bringing businesses to a competitive edge, creating new high-tech jobs and improving peoples’ lives.”

Josef Aschbacher, Director, Earth Observation, ESA, said, “The European Sentinel satellites are the largest providers of Earth observation data worldwide. A major challenge is to convert this fantastic data into customer-specific information. Large-scale hosted processing is the next step in order to meet this challenge, thereby bringing users to the data rather than data to the users.”

ESA will benefit from the in-memory computing power of the SAP HANA platform to make Earth observation data consumable both through the newly available Earth Observation Analysis service as well as in urban and environmental use cases or even beyond in the future.

The Earth Observation Analysis service can be tested at no cost in a nonproductive environment here from Nov. 8 until Dec. 31, 2016. The service is planned to be generally available in the first quarter of 2017. It will then be offered with a consumption-based pricing model that depends on the number of API calls. A set of related microservices, also powered by SAP HANA, will help entrepreneurs, partners, customers and businesses augment and build highly flexible solutions based on SAP HANA and Earth observation data from ESA in the future. SAP and ESA intend to continue their collaboration in developing solutions and technologies based on SAP technology that leverages geospatial information.

SAP today also unveiled SAP HANA 2, the next generation of the SAP HANA platform optimized for innovation. SAP HANA 2 includes and extends the proven technology from the SAP’s breakthrough in-memory computing platform to help organizations address the fast-changing requirements of digital business. As part of the product strategy of SAP HANA 2, the new SAP HANA microservices are intended to spur developer innovation by embedding richer insight into modern applications.

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