Space for Good: Special Report – June 2021
Data Dashboards
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of the early responses by the space sector to the pandemic was a joint project between ESA and the European Commission (EC) called Rapid Action on Coronavirus and EO (RACE), which produced a free dashboard-style tool, launched in early June 2020.
RACE uses EO data from Copernicus Sentinel satellites and third party
The RACE project enlisted strong public feedback. Citizens and
missions to monitor key environmental parameters, such as air and
organizations from 26 countries submitted ideas for the portal, with the two
water quality, and human activities including industry, shipping, traffic,
winning ideas from the public added to the RACE dashboard later in 2020,
construction and agricultural activity.
both of which used Sentinel-2 imagery:
Over 20 industrial and academic partners worked with ESA and the EC to create and populate the platform, including RHEA Group. We provided expertise to RACE on a number of topics, including artificial intelligence (AI).
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• detecting and quantifying the number of trucks moving on roads in the EU • air traffic monitoring in Europe by applying AI to detect flying planes and compare numbers with the previous year.
