eiffel 

Project Number: 101003518
Project Acronym: EIFFEL

General information

Project title: Early Warning System for Mosquito Borne Diseases Advanced Application

Starting date: 01/06/2021

Duration in months: 36

Budget NOA: € 593.125,00

Type of action: RIA - Research and Innovation action

Call (part) identifier: H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020

Topic: LC-CLA-19-2020 - Integrated GEOSS climate applications to support adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement

Keywords: climate change, climate adaptation, climate mitigation, GEOSS, EuroGEO. Copernicus, Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework, UN SDGs, Artificial Intelligence, spatiotemporal resolution, CLMS, C3S, Communities of Practice

Website: https://www.eiffel4climate.eu/

Cordis: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101003518

EU LOGO 


EIFFEL aims to offer the EO-based community the ground-breaking capacity of exploiting existing GEOSS and external datasets and build upon prior knowledge, with minimal new data collection activities. Added-value services interoperable with GEOSS will be designed, using cognitive search and metadata augmentation tools based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Natural Language Processing. These tools will leverage advanced cognitive features to extract meaningful information from and enrich GEOSS metadata. Moreover, novel methods (super resolution, data fusion) for augmenting the spatiotemporal resolution of explored EO data will be proposed, in order to address the needs of the diverse EIFFEL Climate Change adaptation and mitigation applications. The latter will cover: (i) a set of five different GEO Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs), namely in Water and Land Use Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Transport Management, Sustainable Urban Development and Disaster Resilience domains; (ii) various EU geographical and climatic regions, at local, regional, national, cross-border and pan-European scales. Further, the value of using explainable AI techniques for improving the credibility and comprehensiveness of such Climate Change applications, so that they can offer actionable insights to the decision makers, will be showcased. EIFFEL will foster the co-design of Climate Change adaptation policies and mitigation strategies and monitor Climate Change effects in the respective regions. The project, in line with EuroGEO’s emphasis on early engagement with stakeholders and their participation in the application design, has ensured that they are active consortium members. EIFFEL complies with the framework of results-Oriented GEOSS, to improve the delivery of applications tailored to decision making centres and will actively participate in the GEO Work Programme post-2019. Last, it provides tangible proof of the value of GEOSS data for creating Climate Change applications and encourages projects and initiatives to offer their data through the portal.