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Final e-shape General Assembly
With a united message “Blazing new trails for the EO market” that encapsulates and conveys the project’s mission for the way forward, the e-shape consortium, in this final General Assembly, will shed light on the project's legacy showcasing successful results and new services.
“After a 4 year-journey, the e-shape project reached its goals. It proposed new approaches and achievements that transformed the Earth Observation sector and support EuroGEO. The 2023 e-shape General Assembly is a powerful opportunity for the consortium to share the progress, best practices and lessons learned since the launch of the project as well as to showcase and perceive the robust impacts of the work accomplished by all partners.
We started with 55 partners and 27 pilots in Cannes, in May 2019. During e-shape, the consortium has grown to 68 partners and reached 37 pilots. We developed, tested and operationalized a co-design methodology allowing to deploy services with and for the users. We support the technical evolutions and the changes from servers to clouds, the considerations of interoperability and standards, the in-situ measurements integration and other technical issues for each pilot.
We developed the tools to assess the FAIR and GEO principles for services and their trajectory towards these principles. We developed capacity building sessions and users’ uptake for each of the seven showcases and onboarded new pilots. We supported investment readiness, business and sustainability plans development, awareness about Intellectual Properties considerations. Additionally, we were communicating, disseminating and enhancing our visibility in the European Earth Observations community and Worldwide. We explore the governance of the EuroGEO initiative.
We built a community that can be proud of its achievements supporting the EuroGEO initiative, the Group on Earth Observations and more broadly the Earth Observation Sector. The Final General Assembly of e-shape will be the place to consolidate our community and to prepare its future.
Let’s explore new trails together in Nice.”
Thierry Ranchin
Scientific Coordinator of e-shape, MINES Paris-PSL University
>> Read more about the final e-shape General Assembly here
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Meet the e-shape legacy through the GEO Knowledge Hub
An endeavor that aims to concrete e-shape project recognition in times to come!
As a European flagship project contributing to EuroGEO, the e-shape project has linked with the GEO Knowledge Hub (GKH) to support the promotion and the results dissemination of the 37 pilots, from 7 showcases, which have been developed during the project life time.
This successful implementation by Lionel Menard, e-shape scientific and technical manager enables a fully standard and interoperable workflow for maximizing the e-shape effort to disseminate the work and the results of the 37 pilots to the broader GEO community. Harvesting enables as well to keep a master repository for metadata creation and latter modifications avoiding duplications, errors and maximizing the overall consistency. With regards to the number, the richness and the consistency of such metadata records, the GKH team as proposed to create a dedicated GKH Community section to host and gather e-shape related knowledge granules. They are visible on the GKH platform: https://gkhub.earthobservations.org/communities/e-shape
It worth mentioning as well that besides the visibility of the e-shape knowledge granules on the GKH, the webservice-energy catalogue is part of the GEO DAB (Discovery and Access Broker) targets list since 2008 and is being harvested on a weekly basis. Consequently several hundreds of renewable energy related metadata records are available on the GEO Web Portal including the ones from e-shape as shown here: https://bit.ly/3MbO4Xw.
>> Explore more here
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The vision of the e-shape partners for the future of EuroGEO
A position paper is put together by the Executive Board of e-shape on behalf of all partners, the European Flagship project supporting EuroGEO. Its aim is to share the vision of the e-shape partners for the future of EuroGEO.
It takes into account the significant opportunities and challenges that characterise our sector and shape its future; it also recognises the fact that the post-2025 GEO vision is being presently shaped and that a ministerial is coming up next year.
Last but not least, the position paper raises a call to action for the launch of appropriate calls with adequate budget to fully exploit the legacy by e-shape and not only maintain its momentum but also help to shape the future for the benefit of all EO actors.
>> More information available here
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e-shape shakes the EuroGEO Workshop 2022 by blazing new trails for the EO market
e-shape, as a flagship European project, was in the frontline at this year’s edition of EuroGEO Workshop 2022 held in Athens, Greece, from 7th-9th December 2022. With a united message and motto “Blazing new trails for the EO market” that encapsulated and conveyed the project’s entire mission for the way forward, the e-shape consortium’s prevailing presence gave prominence in the e-shape legacy by showcasing successful results, new services, how the project contributes to the SDGs targets etc.
The communications team of e-shape, in order to propel this endeavor, organized a dedicated communication social media pre and main campaign, created targeted e-banners and designed impactful, fit for purpose, compelling give-away gifts for the conference. It is worth mentioning that during this 3-day workshop, the majority of the topics discussed dealt directly or indirectly with sustainability and e-shape project, with its 37 pilots in 7 showcases, contributed to the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals by proposing solutions to combat poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation and to support prosperity, peace and justice.
>> More information available here
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e-shape project beyond the frontiers! NASA event
Our colleague Ioannis Manakos from the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH project partner) exquisitely represented the flagship H2020 project e-shape at the 2021 -22 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting & Silver Jubilee Celebration on the 18th to 20th of October, 2022 in Maryland, USA.
The main objective, during the NASA event, was to present the land cover and land use utilization within myEcosystem and Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture showcases of e-shape and provide ‘An Overview of European Research Directions in Land-Use Science’ aiming to facilitate exchange of knowledge and advancements with overseas colleagues, as a partial result of e-shape myEcosystem activities.
80-110 participants from various Universities, Research Organizations, Governmental Agencies and Companies, mainly NASA LCLUC program members, initiated lively discussions pivoted around the validity of the results and services, the agricultural pilots in relation with GEOGLAM and food security as well as the future developments from Landsat Next and Sentinel-2 missions and the way these improvements will influence our products and services.
The impact was immense since the audience of such a high level event, was introduced for the first time to the e-shape activities and outcomes with a targeted promotion of the e-shape project to the NASA LCLUC website.
>> More information available here
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e-shape at GEO Week 2022
e-shape project, once again, left its mark on the GEO Week 2022 held in Ghana-Accra.
On the 1st of November, Dr. Haris Kontoes from the National Observatory of Athens showcased, during the side event: Earth Observation and Health: Early Warning Systems and beyond!, the award winning from the EIC, pilot EYWA - EarlY WArning System for Mosquito-Borne Diseases with a special focus on the main objective of the e-shape pilot to expand and extend the EYWA system capabilities to non-European territories (Ivory Coast - Africa, Thailand-Asia).
This side-event of 1.5 hours on Earth Observation and Health, was organized by the European Commission with support of the GEO Health Community of Practice/EO4Health.
The event aimed to explore the opportunities Earth observation offers for health, targeting the holistic “One Health” domain and with the intend to deliver messages contributing to GEO Post 2025. Particular emphasis was given to early warning systems – fitting within the GEO priority targeting EWEA (Early Warning Early Action). This side-event tackled both Early Warning (following the solutions under the EIC Horizon Prize on Early Warning for Epidemics) and Early Action.
Find the full presentation here
Furthermore, our partners Marie Francoise Voidrot and Lionel Menard with their presentation entitled “Ongoing Efforts by the Data Working Group on advancing Data Sharing and Data Management principles”, had an impactful participation on the 31st of October, at the session “Open data policies global overview and focus in Africa”.
The adoption of data sharing and open data policies in the African continent is not fully implemented. This side event constituted the occasion to fully focus on the African continent and identify further steps with respect to understand and promote these important GEO Principles.
Find the full presentation here
>> More information available here
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User Uptake
Supporting pilots to reach the next level
The ecosystem around Earth Observation applications is extended and complex, spanning from programmes at European and international level, to R&D and scientific initiatives, and industry and end-users actions. At general level, the user uptake identifies stakeholders and implements relevant activities to develop the promotion and the engagement between the stakeholders and communities of users. In the e-shape project, the user uptake strategy is dedicated to the engagement of different community of users with the e-shape pilots and the actions to support it, starting from the context of the Copernicus ecosystem.
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