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WPH on Earth Observation of ESSnet Big Data

Carla MARTINS
Carla MARTINS • 12 June 2025

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https://wayback.archive-it.org/12090/20221112073150/https:/ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/WPH_Earth_observation

 

Workpackage H (WPH) of ESSnet Big Data (2018-20) focuses on earth observation data, i.e. satellite data and aerial photography (but at the moment mostly at the former in the form of Sentinel data). Its objective is to build a geospatial framework filling the “geospatial breakdown” between statistical and geographical information, by describing the availability and access possibilities/restrictions for statistical use in various domains and application areas, such as agriculture, built-up areas, land cover and settlements enumeration, and forestry.

WPH is carried out by representatives of nine ESSnet Big Data partners: GUS (Statistics Poland) which is leading WPH, and Statbel (Statistics Belgium), Destatis (Statistics Germany), INSEE (Statistics France), ISTAT (Statistics Italy), LUKE (Natural Resources Institute Finland), CBS (Statistics Netherlands), INE (Statistics Portugal), and SSP (Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood Industry and Forestry, France).

More background information on WPH can be found here.