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Issue #4 of our newsletter is available! Wrapping up the year 2020, unusual and challenging globally, we are grateful for the ongoing support received from the EU Horizon 2020, and their understanding - our project was granted a six months extension. We are redesigning the dissemination strategy, to align it with the current challenges. Stay tuned, … Continue reading enviroLENS Newsletter #4

We are excited to share with you an article published recently that glimpses into the details of eLENS development, and aims to test the capability of the developed Earth observation (EO) algorithm and corresponding processing chain to detect deforestation using Sentinel-2 imagery. Such an algorithm is a key component of the EO services of the … Continue reading Earth observation as a tool for detecting and monitoring potential environmental violations and policy implementation

Third edition of our newsletter is available! As the COVID-19 pandemic shaped our reality and consequent measures affected all of us, we hope that you and your families stayed safe and healthy. In most countries, the situation seems to be calming down. As we look for ways to continue with our activities adapting to the new circumstances, we hope you will … Continue reading enviroLENS Newsletter #3

There is a growing number of examples that prove the benefits of Earth observation, often explored through research projects. In Italy, for example, a team of researchers succeeded in detecting illegal waste dumps and landfills, and monitored their extension and persistence over a period of time by using optical satellite image data and a multi-feature … Continue reading Getting things done

Most of times potential uses of Earth observation (EO) are narrowed down to three, such as regulation and enforcement of specific laws, monitoring of compliance with environmental laws in previously targeted sites, and provision of historic evidence. EO is unlikely to replace ground-based monitoring, but in the right circumstances, it can provide valuable supplementary data … Continue reading Environment and Earth observation today

The idea of using satellite images for environmental law enforcement has been around for more than 20 years. An article written on the subject in 1997 complained, already than, that even “twenty-five years after the first release of satellite data to the non-military sector, the technology remains greatly under-utilized by the legal community.” Discussing some … Continue reading Earth observation and the legal community, a missing link

enviroLENS is responding to the demands of the jurisdictional sector for ready-to-access evidence and scenario information on environmental situations. Its main technological innovation will be the eLENS Portal, an advanced information system uniting Earth Observation (EO) with the environmental law and legal domain. It will create novel and unique types of services, by: providing public … Continue reading Algorithms, methods, flows and services… building the eLENS Portal

enviroLENS is responding to the requirements of the legal sector for ready-to-access evidence and scenario information on environmental cases. The enviroLENS team has designed a dedicated questionnaire to collect baseline information on current practices of monitoring and reporting on environmental law enforcement. Based on the user feedback we will be able to identify potential opportunities for … Continue reading HELP US. HELP YOU! enviroLENS user questionnaire

An essential component of the enviroLENS project are the use cases that will be developed through the project and are providing a blue print for linking the legal sector with the EO domain. Hosted at DLA Piper premises in Vienna, the first User consolidation workshop took place in January 2019 together with representatives from GeoVille, … Continue reading First enviroLENS user consolidation workshop