Week 5: Managing EO data: Current Methods and Future Challenges

How is ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) vital in supporting the monitoring of the Essential Climate Variables (ECVs)?

Topic 5a - ESA Climate Change Initiative

In this video, we explore how ESA’s CCI is advancing our understanding of climate-related changes associated with a number of ECVs.

Topic 5b - Climate Models and Data Assimilation

In this video, Dr Melanie Ades explains some of the aspects of how weather or climate models and data are used to build simulations of the Earth system that can provide the most reliable forecasts.

Topic 5c - Data Validation Case Study: Monitoring Emissions From Fires

In this video, Professor Martin Wooster explains the importance and some of the basic principles of EO validation activities

Topic 5d - Big Data, Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Science

In this video, Professor Chris Lintott explains the importance of citizen science initiatives and introduces Zooniverse’s ‘Floating Forests’.

Topic 5e - Recap of Course Themes: The Evolving Role of EO

In this final video of the course, some of the course educators and leading experts who have taken us through the range of topics, now provide a brief re-cap of key themes from the course.

Week 5 Interactive Exercise

Week 5 Interactive Exercise