The goal of the study was to gather quantitative evidence that the usage of Copernicus Sentinel data provides an effective and convenient support to various market applications. As part of it, we defined and applied a new methodology to assess the full benefits (direct and indirect) stemming from the use of EO-derived geospatial information, in a way which has not been tackled before.
We examined how the benefits of using these data either do or can affect a full value chain by starting from the primary usage and then following the related impact down various identified tiers in the value chain. The new methodology was applied to three use cases, which have been selected considering the maturity of the application as well as the feasibility for the sake of the study.
We studied three cases:
- Winter Navigation in the Baltic
- Forest Management in Sweden
- Infrastructure Monitoring in the Netherlands
For each case, we identified a defined product which is being used operationally to support a process within an organization, identified the value chain linking the various users and investigated the cascaded effects and the benefits brought by the use of satellite imagery for each tier down to value chain.
We’ve published 2 of the 3 cases which you can find below.
http://earsc.org/file_download/270/case+report+-+winter+navigation+in+the+baltic+final.pdf
http://earsc.org/file_download/307/case+report+-+forest+management+in+sweden+final+.pdf