Objective
The ECO-MOSAIC (Ecosystem Monitoring and Scaling for Climate Change Impacts) project develops an open, scalable framework to monitor how climate change alters terrestrial ecosystems across Europe. Building on ESA Climate Change Initiative datasets and other satellite Earth Observation products, the project links Essential Biodiversity Variables and Essential Climate Variables with in-situ monitoring networks and advanced AI models to understand the impact of the climate change extreme event on species distribution. ECO-MOSAIC will generate spatially explicit indicators of ecosystem condition, resilience, exposure, and change at multiple spatial and temporal scales, supporting conservation planning and ambitious climate adaptation policies. The project will co-produce methods and open-source tools for users, ensuring interoperability, transparency, and uptake in policy and practice. Ultimately, ECO-MOSAIC aims to deliver transferable workflow and decision-ready information for scientists, land managers, policy makers worldwide, and other users of ecosystem information across Europe and beyond.
SINTEF's role in the project
SINTEF’s role in the ECO‑MOSAIC project is to provide core expertise in FAIR and smart data management, semantic interoperability, and environmental/biodiversity digital twins, ensuring that EO, climate, and biodiversity datasets are harmonised and fully interoperable with the Destination Earth Digital Twin architecture. SINTEF contributes to the project’s foundational scientific analysis, the development of data repositories and analytical tools, the execution of scientific modelling and validation, and the evaluation and long‑term roadmap planning. Its responsibilities include creating interoperable cloud‑based data infrastructures, supporting semantic integration using ontologies and standards, enabling scalable cloud‑native EO processing, and advancing digital‑twin‑ready workflows across the project.
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Funding
This project has received funding from the European Space Agency under ESA Contract No 4000149723/25/I-LR.