EO4CAM

EO4CAM - Earth Observation Innovation Laboratory for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Cristina Ganuza, Jie Zhang

Förderer: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie (StMWi)
Homepage: https://www.dlr.de/de/site/eo4cam

Zusammenfassung:
The early detection of climate change and its ecological, economic, and social impacts, as well as the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies, are among the most pressing tasks of our time. Thanks to satellite data and its analysis, a highly modern and dynamically developing technology is available today. This makes it possible to understand the spatial and temporal consequences of climate change in terrestrial systems with unprecedented precision by analyzing the historical development of archive data, observing current changes, and, together with models, forecasting probable future developments. The information obtained from earth observation data can thus contribute to the development of suitable adaptation strategies to climate change.

The EO4CAM project aims to set up a joint expert group at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which deals with the contributions of earth observation to climate change adaptation. The aim is to provide reliable, objective, and continuous information on ongoing change processes for Bavarian authorities and local authorities in a data portal, initially for Bavaria, and in the longer term beyond. Where possible, future scenarios will also be created so that sensible adaptations to climate change can be implemented.

The thematic foci are on urban areas, agriculture, and forestry, as well as cross-cutting issues such as georisks, biodiversity, and health.