Essential Variables for Environmental Monitoring: What are the Possible Contributions of Earth Observation Data Cubes?

Article Article scientifique Article Essential Variables for Environmental Monitoring: What are the Possible Contributions of Earth Observation Data Cubes? eng 2020 author Giuliani Gregory 0000-0002-1825-8865 94488 author Egger Elvire 837324 author Italiano Julie 918705 author Poussin Charlotte 676396 author Richard Jean-Philippe 82559 author Chatenoux Bruno 92551 10.3390/data5040100 2306-5729 https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/5/4/100 Environmental sustainability is nowadays a major global issue that requires efficient and effective responses from governments. Essential variables (EV) have emerged in different scientific communities as a means to characterize and follow environmental changes through a set of measurements required to support policy evidence. To help track these changes, our planet has been under continuous observation from satellites since 1972. Currently, petabytes of satellite Earth observation (EO) data are freely available. However, the full information potential of EO data has not been yet realized because many big data challenges and complexity barriers hinder their effective use. Consequently, facilitating the production of EVs using the wealth of satellite EO data can be beneficial for environmental monitoring systems. In response to this issue, a comprehensive list of EVs that can take advantage of consistent time-series satellite data has been derived. In addition, a set of use-cases, using an Earth Observation Data Cube (EODC) to process large volumes of satellite data, have been implemented to demonstrate the practical applicability of EODC to produce EVs. The proposed approach has been successfully tested showing that EODC can facilitate the production of EVs at different scales and benefiting from the spatial and temporal dimension of satellite EO data for enhanced environmental monitoring. Essential variables Climate Biodiversity Water Earth observations Data cube Dewey 333.7-333.9 18 Institut des sciences de l'environnement 0DB false 673 Envirospace Lab 859 Global Resource Information Database (GRID) 941 ISE Pôle Informatique environnementale 938 ISE Pôle Sciences 1057 TIGERS 970b71ee-b344-4440-bc52-c9af263975d0 Living Earth Lab Data 5 100 b2626832-6ad9-4c62-806d-03202aefa4be Article (Published version) Public data-05-00100.pdf 4171145 application/pdf CC BY openAccess Centres et instituts / Institut des sciences de l'environnement

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