Open AccessThe Swiss Data Cube: Earth Observations for monitoring Switzerland’s environment in space and time
Author(s) -
Grégory Giuliani,
Pascal Peduzzi,
Bruno Chatenoux,
Jean-Philippe Richard,
Charlotte Poussin,
Michael E. Schaepman,
David Small,
Charlotte Steinmeier,
Achilleas Psomas,
Christian Ginzler
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/509/1/012021
Subject(s) - livelihood , natural resource , sustainable development , earth observation , environmental resource management , balance of nature , natural (archaeology) , population , remote sensing , data cube , environmental change , geography , business , satellite , computer science , climate change , environmental science , engineering , ecology , agriculture , data mining , demography , archaeology , aerospace engineering , sociology , biology
Pressures on natural resources are increasing and a number of challenges need to be overcome to meet the needs of a growing population in a period of environmental variability. The key to sustainable development is achieving a balance between the exploitation of natural resources for socioeconomic development and maintaining ecosystem services that are critical to human’s wellbeing and livelihoods. Some of these environmental issues can be monitored using remotely sensed Earth Observations (EO) data that are increasingly available from freely and openly accessible repositories. Hereafter, we present the Swiss Data Cube, a unique Analysis Ready Data archive of satellite imagery and some use cases to monitor Sustainable Development Goals.