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Exploring space from the ground: open satellite data in Europe and its applications
The value of open satellite data in Europe
Satellites have become essential tools for understanding the planet and managing resources efficiently. The European Union (EU) has developed an advanced space infrastructure with the aim of providing real-time data on the environment, navigation and meteor…
New geospatial data capture techniques: innovations for more efficient data governance
Geospatial data capture is essential for understanding our environment, making informed decisions and designing effective policies in areas such as urban planning, natural resource management or emergency response. In the past, this process was mainly manual and labour-intensive, based on ground mea…
Complying with Europe. The High Value Sites of Earth Observation and Environment Regulation
The European Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 sets clear guidelines for public bodies on the availability of high-value datasets within 16 months from 20 January 2023. These high-value high value datasets (High value datasets or HVD) are grouped into the following themes, which were…
Open data and climate change: essential information for a sustainable future
In recent years, climate change has become one of the most pressing challenges of our time because, according to the main reports of different international institutions, it is accelerating beyond the most pessimistic forecasts. Rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, rising sea levels and the…
Exploring the role of open data on the web3
While there is still no absolute consensus on the definition of Web3, the applications and concepts associated with the term have been increasingly widely explored in recent years and some of its propositions such as cryptocurrencies have already reached the general public. The term Web3 usually ref…
Open data use cases to care for the environment and fight climate change
Climate change, air pollution and sea pollution. These are the 3 main environmental problems for Spanish citizens according to the latest Eurobarometer "Attitudes of European citizens towards the Environment", published in March 2020. The survey also highlights that 90% of the Spanish population con…
4 environment challenges that open data can help solve
A few months ago, the Open Data Climático, carried out by the Spanish Meteorology Agency, starred a large number of news, with headlines such as "70% of Spaniards affected by climate change", "Summers are five weeks longer than they were in the eighties" or "The semi-arid climate advances towards Ga…
Pubby and LODI, opening linked data to humans
An important part of the data which is published on the Semantic Web, where resources are identified by URIs, is stored within triple store databases. This data can only be accessed through SPARQL queries via a SPARQL endpoint.
Moreover, the URIs used, usually designed in a pattern, in most of the d…
