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Can you imagine having a tool that monitors Earth’s surface and, if an area is significantly warmer than the surrounding ones, asks the landlord to plant a tree? An innovative project funded by ESA through the Discovery element of it’s Basic Activities seeks to integrate satellite data about Earth’s surface with the Internet of Things and make this possible.
Observing Earth from space provides essential information for monitoring climate change and improving agricultural practices. While satellite data are available for every square meter of our planet’s surface, they are not always easy to use for new services and business ideas. Researchers from the Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH, Austria combined Earth observation and the Internet of Things (IoT) by dividing the surface of our planet into equally sized pixels.
Each Pixel Twin is a treasure case containing data from Earth observation portals associated with a particular area and is identifiable and addressable with an IoT object. The grid of pixels, covering Earth’s full surface, will live within EU's FIWARE IoT framework, which brings together data sources with the services built on top of them.