ERATOSTHENES CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence: The ECoE is a non-profit research organisation on Earth Observation and Geo-information. The ECoE’s staff has significant experience and scientific knowledge on satellite image processing and geo-informatics, in the three thematic clusters/departments of the Centre, namely Environment & Climate, Resilient Society, and Big Earth Data analytics. The ECoE’s staff have a substantial track record in research grants for several EO-based applications, funded through national and EU funds. Moreover, the ECoE has significant expertise in open science practices, providing open access to the group’s scientific results, including open access and open IPR to research outputs via a certified repository (KTISIS of CUT). The ECoE also has a Gender Equality Plan, published on its website, that includes dedicated resources, collecting and monitoring data, training activities, and other gender balance/ equality/ dimension areas in organizational culture, research, recruitment, etc. In the coming years, it is expected that the CARO National facility (Cyprus Atmospheric Remote Sensing Observatory) for Atmospheric remote sensing observations and the CSN (Cyprus Solar Radiation Network) will be fully operational and the EO Satellite Data Acquisition Station (DAS), will be established, to directly receive data from EO satellite missions, allowing bot infrastructures the Near Real Time (NRL) monitoring, and thereby providing time critical information for science and products over the EMMENA region. Those unique observations will be exploited using AI and modelling techniques to assist the generation of new products/services. CARO will become one of the most advanced facilities placed in the EMMENA region with high interest on atmospheric composition structure for continuous monitoring of aerosol and clouds providing ground truthing observations and a reference station for calibration/ validation of satellite missions