{"id":2679,"date":"2026-04-22T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/turning-data-from-space-into-action-for-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:42:00","slug":"turning-data-from-space-into-action-for-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/turning-data-from-space-into-action-for-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning data from space into action for Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/04\/desert_locust\/27214163-1-eng-GB\/Desert_locust_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Desert locust\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Earth Day, 22 April \u2013 a global call to act and protect our planet. At the European Space Agency, that action begins in orbit, where satellites deliver a continuous, global view of Earth and track environmental change. Working with partners, ESA turns this stream of data into actionable information through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\" target=\"_blank\">FutureEO programme<\/a>, helping governments and communities respond faster and more effectively to climate-driven risks.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two examples of how space technology is being used to anticipate threats to safeguard food security and public health.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Earth Day, 22 April \u2013 a global call to act and protect our planet. At the European Space Agency, that action begins in orbit, where satellites deliver a continuous, global view of Earth and track environmental change. Working with partners, ESA turns this stream of data into actionable information through its FutureEO programme, helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}