EOSDA Attended ESA SYMPOSIUM In March 2024
EOS Data Analytics successfully participated in ESA SYMPOSIUM, a long-awaited soil and terrestrial life-focused conference under the EU Soil Mission guidelines. The event, hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA), took place in Frascati, Italy, on March 6th and 7th, 2024.
ESA SYMPOSIUM became an excellent ground for networking, learning, and exploring opportunities for soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration enthusiasts and industry professionals. There, Lidiia Lelechenko, Sales Executive at EOSDA, presented a recent study by Dr. Vasyl Cherlinka, EOSDA’s Soil Scientist, on SOC and its capturing potential in Ukraine.
The symposium was rather eventful. The main themes of the ESA SYMPOSIUM were the development of new missions from Copernicus and the launch of the platform for SOC monitoring from ESA, WorldSoils. Our presenters spoke with many participants and exchanged ideas on SOC modeling. Industry experts shared their insights and presented interesting solutions to develop further carbon sequestration discussions in the European Union and beyond.
A whole array of initiatives, e.g., the European Union’s Soil Mission, highlights the role of soils in the Green Deal. This ambitious goal of achieving a healthy 75% of soils by 2030 resonates with a number of other projects that demonstrate a deep understanding of the agricultural soils’ importance, which play a critical role in food security and climate change.
Lidiia Lelechenko presented Dr. Vasyl Cherlinka’s study, Soil Organic Carbon: Assessment of Dynamics and Sequestration Potential on the Example of Ukraine. The presentation touched upon:
- Existing problems with data for modeling on the scale of Ukraine, ways to solve them, and the result — a model of carbon dynamics in the Ukrainian soils during 2015-2020 based on actual data and a model of soil organic carbon sequestration for the period until 2040 for three different land use scenarios using the RothC model;
- How our study and analysis identified several potential sources of SOC data and how some of them may be a powerful source of information for spatiotemporal modeling of SOC;
- How the general approaches for soil care can be used as a basis for recalculating the results in scenarios of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine and restoration of its agricultural potential.
After Lidiia’s presentation, the developers of WorldSoils (Niels Batjes and Laura Poggio) showed great interest in the results and even more in the raw data that Vasyl and EOSDA have obtained. It was a pleasure for our speakers to discuss the research and the future of EOSDA in the SOC modeling terrain.
It is worth mentioning the excellent organization of the event itself, as well as the wonderful views and landscapes, and the unforgettable historical spirit of Frascati in wonderful and sunny Italy.