The 3rd GEO Data Providers Workshop was held at the ESRIN, the establishment of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati (Italy) from the 2nd to the 4th of May 2018. The workshop brought together more than 200 data providers and users from more than 130 organizations from 33 countries and 5 continents and provided a space to share experiences and knowledge that can improve the ways in which Earth observations are managed, communicated, disseminated and used to enhance the

We are pleased to announce the release of the first edition of the EOSC-hub Magazine.The EOSC-hub Magazine is a publication of the EOSC-hub project, edited to showcase major results and achievements of the project, collaborations with other initiatives and updates from the communities. The magazine also provides an overview of the latest highlights from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) landscape. The highlights of the first issue are: What is the Hub in EOSC-hub? EOSC i

Dr Evangelos Gerasopoulos, Coordinator of the Project, introduces the SMURBS project, which harnesses Earth observation in the service of ‘SMart URBan Solutions for air quality, disasters and city growth’. According to the UN’s ‘World Urbanization Prospects: 2014 Revision’, in today’s increasingly global and interconnected world, over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, the continuing urbanisation is projected to add 2.5 billion to the urban population by 205