🌍 The final @EarthMonitorOrg Global Workshop is FINISHED 🪐🥳 Three inspiring days in Barcelona filled with research, projects, innovative tools and valuable contributions shaping the next generation of #EarthObservation and #GeoAI. From open data and open-source technologies to real-world environmental challenges, the workshop showcased the power of collaboration to turn ideas into impact.⭐️💻 A huge thank you to our colleagues at CREAF for making all of this possible, and for a lovely collaboration over the years 🌳💚 A special thank you to our keynote speakers And a huge thank you to all speakers, keynotes, presenters, participants, #OEMC partners for sharing their insights and enriching the programme with their expertise and perspectives, making these three days so engaging and productive! 🌟🧑‍💻 We are also grateful to @REA_research and the @EU_Commission for funding the Open-Earth-Monitor project, making this work and the community behind it possible.🛰 As we celebrate the final edition of the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop, we look forward to seeing this community’s ideas, tools and collaborations continue to grow and shape the future of open Earth Observation and GeoAI 🪐✨ Thank you, Barcelona, and thank you, everyone! 💚🌍 @Cambridge_Uni | @Geo_Wiki | @IIASAVienna | @UV_EG | @Geografia_UAB |@CmccClimate | @ETH_en | @fondazionemach | @CNRsocial_ | @GFZ_Potsdam | @GilabRs | @MPI_BGC | @Vizzuality | @TERRASIGNA | @sinergise | @LifeWatchERIC | @REA_research | @DMultione | @nicolangnl | @AiCentreDK | @DIKU_Institut | @Reichstein_BGC | @MarcCoru | @WUR | @EuracEO | @EURAC | @MPI_BGC

Within the @EarthMonitorOrg and CAPEO / @IFAD projects we are aiming at producing harmonized analysis-ready land cover products that basically represent "best-of-the-best" both in terms of spatial detail (resolution), thematic resolution (detailed classes) and user accuracy (strict cross-validation). We just finished the 10 m and 30 m Global Harmonized Land Cover (GHLC; app.landmetric.org/) covering 2020 to 2024 and showing distribution of 40+ distinct classes, including: specific crop types, varying grassland management types, and forest types. We produced GHLC by implementing rule-based ensemble approach that integrates 24 individual land cover and auxiliary spatial layers from different projects (ESA WorldCover, GLAD land-cover and forest products, GLC_FCS30D, crop-specific soybean, maize, rice, coffee, cocoa, rubber, and palm products, Global Pasture Watch grassland products, Global Mangrove Watch data and similar). We implemented GHLC as an #OpenScience & #FAIR data project with all code available directly from codeberg.org/landmetric/ghlc so anyone can reproduce, improve and extend. We are currently working on merging national land cover products with global products to produce a fully harmonized global land cover (aiming at spatial resolutions of 30 m and covering 2000 to 2025; 10 m covering 2016 to 2025). Expect first releases in early 2027. Through the process of building the GHLC, we discovered that merging land cover products is not trivial: most painful in the process was having to accept that many products are unfortunately not maintained; many teams today prefer <12 classes which drastically reduces usability of such data; and some products are black-box systems with user accuracy potentially over-estimated. Nevertheless, all input layers we used are truly Awesome (we are standing of the shoulders of giants!) and we encourage these groups to continue maintaining these products. Big kudos to Mateo Moreno and the team for not giving up and continuously working on more usable more open data! 📁 Data set and code: codeberg.org/landmetric/ghlc 📜 Paper preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/pre… 🌍 Viewer: app.landmetric.org/

Soil Health Data Cube (#SHDC) has just been updated (to v1.1)! Dynamic soil properties and soil health indicators at 30 m resolution 2000-2024 for pan-EU as #OpenData. Several issues in data and front-end have been systematically improved (thanks to many colleagues from @AI4SoilHealth project and various national agencies). You can access the updated data from stac.EcoDataCube.eu and explore via EcoDataCube.eu (webinar: youtu.be/eMmhepWg6Cs?t=2206). For technical documentation see: shdc.ai4soilhealth.eu. It is now also possible to visualize prediction intervals (uncertainty) and overlay SHDC vs various national cadastral and admin data with many thanks to the @GilabRs and colleagues from the @EarthMonitorOrg project. Read more about how were the soil health indicators produced (doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-741-…), including soil carbon dynamics (doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19605). Projects funded by @REA_research Horizon Europe. If you are at #EUAgriFoodDays in Brussels (agriculture.ec.europa.eu/eu-…), come to the AI 4 Soil Health stand on Wednesday 17th Dec (Day 3 – Agri-Digital Day) and get a walk through - how can you easily access the SHDC data and how could you use it to help manage land? Which soil agronomy data is still missing and what should we add to SHDC in 2026?

We had an excellent conference at Perugia @EarthMonitorOrg Global Workshop 2025 kindly co-hosted by @UniperugiaNews and @CNR_IRPI . If you missed it, we video-recorded 📼 all talks: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… Topics covered include: #OpenEO #CDSE #Copernicus monitoring of #deforestation Big vector and gridded data, workshops in #Python data fusion in climate science, hydrology & novel global #soil data sets... 🚧 some videos (3-4) unfortunately due to technical problems have poor video/audio quality. 2026 Global Workshop is coming to: Barcelona / to be hosted by @CREAF_ecologia ! The EarthMonitor.org project has received funding from the @REA_research / Horizon Europe.

🚀 Today, we officially launch the Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR) in Doorwerth! 🌍 Our mission: build an open, transparent, and farmer-friendly carbon registry for Europe. #OGCR #CarbonFarming #EUGreenDeal #CarbonRegistry

🚨 Have you registered yet? The Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2025 is coming to Perugia, Italy – September 17–19 – and seats are filling up fast! For three days, we’ll bring together researchers, policy-makers, innovators, and students to explore how open data and open-source monitoring tools are helping address Europe’s most urgent environmental challenges — from droughts and floods to biodiversity loss and wildfire risk. 💡 Why join? 🔹30+ real-life use cases from the Open-Earth-Monitor Consortium 🔹Hands-on workshops with leading Earth Observation experts 🔹Networking and special sessions for early-career researchers and students 📍 Hosted at the University of Perugia’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 🔗 Secure your spot now: pretix.eu/opengeohubfoundati… 🌐Discover the program: earthmonitor.org/global-work…

We are adding some 110TB of analysis-ready data to EcoDataCube.eu (all cloud-optimized as COGs or PMTiles). The upgraded system includes dynamic soil properties "Soil Health Data Cube" part of the @AI4SoilHealth and @EarthMonitorOrg projects, bimonthly time-series of biophysical indices (doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-741-…), including the vegetation height annual (doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-652…) and #soilcarbon density predictions (doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-512…). We are focusing on preparing high resolution (10-30 m) data for 2000-2024 so that you can run various time of time-series analysis and monitor changes across pan-EU. We have also added the field boundaries for pan-EU (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14229…) and number of vector layers using PMTiles format. See if you can locate actual fields and visualize long-term trends. All data is available as open data via STAC (stac.ecodatacube.eu/), which means you should be able to develop computational notebooks (see some examples here: docs.google.com/presentation…) even on your laptop (assuming you only need to analyze local data). Next mission: add all major pan-EU data sets from the EU Environmental Agency and the Copernicus Land Monitoring Services and further integrate data so analysis becomes even more seamless. Next major release is planned for September 2025 and should include monthly products and data updated up to 2024. Many thanks to @GilabRs for the front-end implementation and all other partners on the EU Science, Research and Innovation projects @EarthMonitorOrg and @AI4SoilHealth

❗️📄Abstract submission is now open! 🎉🌏After 3 successful Global Workshops the @EarthMonitorOrg project is hosting the 4th Global Workshop! We are bringing together key Open EO data and software developers to discuss how we can together speed up uptake of Earth Observation data for environmental monitoring and applications (🔗🧑‍💻recordings from the previous GW's are available at: youtube.com/@OpenGeoHubFound…). 🗓️When? 17-19th September 2025 📍Where? Faculty of Engineering, Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia 🧑‍💻📊 To be part of this workshop submit an abstract for oral, workshop or poster session. All proposals will be reviewed by the science committee and the best ranked proposals will be then selected. 🔗Abstract submission link: pretalx.earthmonitor.org/ope… 🔗 More information about the event:earthmonitor.org/global-work…

Are you an advanced geo-coder interested in exploring various #open tools and approaches for upscaling #geospatial analysis on open High-Performance Computing #HPC infrastructure? Pre-register to attend @IIASAVienna's GEO-OPEN-HACK-2024 before this Sunday, March 31st! Link 👇