Description:
In an unprecedented collaboration, in April 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) combined forces using Open Science principles to accelerate scientific analysis and communication of the impacts of COVID-19 via a set of indicators that included air quality, greenhouse gas, water quality, agriculture, and economic activity. NASA, ESA and JAXA put together resources and data from a suite of advanced space-based Earth-observing instruments and tri-agency teams worked virtually across time zones to collect observations, analyze data, and develop a new Open Source analytical tool available at https://eodashboard.org. The Earth Observing dashboard partnership built on the power of satellite Earth Observations, geospatial Datacubes, Open APIs and Machine Learning and provided a single, user friendly dashboard, accessible by anyone. Continuing throughout 2022, the partnership originally built to track pre and post COVID-19 data, continues to guide the general publich through information gathering on the Earth's Earth’s air, land, oceans, and ice and is a tool to better engage and understand science and the uses of Earth Observing data. Promoting Open Science, the initiative is also a means to stimulate innovation in Earth Observation and its open resources, including data, code and tutorials have been used in global competitions such as the EO Dashboard Hackathon.

Speakers:
-Shin-ichi Sobue (JAXA),
-Manil Maskey (NASA)
-Anca Anghelea (ESA)