Enhancing Ecosystems Conservation via EO Solutions, Capacity Development and Co-design
Designing and developing a platform to manage technical aspects of scalable EO algorithm execution
PEOPLE-ECCO (Enhancing Ecosystems Conservation through Earth Observation Solutions, Capacity Development, and Co-design) is an ESA-funded initiative under the Earth Observation Science for Society (EO4Society) programme. This project addresses crucial needs expressed by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that aim to enhance evidence-based ecosystem conservation. The PEOPLE-ECCO project follows two high-level objectives:
Engage CSOs/NGOs active in ecosystems conservation by involving them in the co-design of EO methodologies applicable in their operational practices and though EO capacity building activities;
Develop, test, demonstrate and validate EO-integrated methods, based on the identified user requirements and co-design.
Six NGOs/CSOs, referred to as “Early Adopters,” play a pivotal role in the project by contributing to the creation of actionable, relevant EO-based tools and methods. These Early Adopters include African Parks, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds, the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative, IUCN Vietnam, the Prince Edward Island Watershed Alliance, and Reef Check Malaysia. Collectively, they represent efforts across four continents and manage a diverse array of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The role of 52°North is to design and develop the platform that manages all technical aspects of the EO algorithm execution. The platform will provide an intuitive interface for the Early Adopters to configure and execute the algorithms for their specific areas of interest, as well as view and download previous analysis results. Under the hood, the architecture leverages the openEO platform to do the heavy lifting of EO data processing. The openEO process graph serves as the interoperability interface between the PEOPLE-ECCO system and the openEO platform.
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European Space Agency, France