How will space transform the global food system?
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global agricultural production will need to increase by 60% by 2050 to meet the food demands of the growing global population.
A new satellite called Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment, or CHIME, is being developed to support EU policies on the management of natural resources – ultimately helping to address the global issue of food security.
CHIME will carry a unique visible to shortwave infrared spectrometer to provide routine hyperspectral observations to support new and enhanced services for sustainable agricultural and biodiversity management, as well as soil property characterisation.
CHIME is one of six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions that ESA is developing on behalf of the EU. The missions will expand the current capabilities of the Copernicus Space Component – the world’s biggest supplier of Earth observation data.
This video features interviews with Marco Celesti, CHIME Mission Scientist and Jens Nieke, CHIME Project Manager.
Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
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I don't want my beans grown in space lol
Thank you to hear,…❤️💚🌍🫠
Amazing i wish we had it in the orbit by next year … new features are going to reveal alot of gems
Great program congratulations wonderful!
Thank you for the down-to-earth explanation
Will CHIME enable to get Forest Biomass, Height and Disturbances? If so it is a redundancy of the BIOMASS mission or not?
ESA all the videos are great, thanks for keeping us informed about your missions. Good luck with the CHIME mission! 💙
O espectro tão importante é cada vez mais elaborado cientificamente …para ver ao pormenor à evolução e alteração dos sistemas!! É impressionante o que a ciência ESA pode fazer por todos nós?!
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Its an amazing project
While one of the primary purposes of CHIMES is agricultural monitoring, 11 days of revisit time is a considerable interval. Also, the spatial resolution could have been matched Sentinel-2, i.e., 10 m.
Harvesting food should never harm the land it should only benefit us and the environment together. ESA should be proving and studying that industrial farming has been and is going to continue harming our plant and animal DNA and also harming our ecosystems, they should not be making a satellite to further these harmful industrial practices. If we must still farm industrially we should not be risking our planet's environment and plants and animals at all. Industrial farming should either be very advanced and ethical like greenhouses or possibly microbiological solutions for low resource input for high gain to food production. This space technology could look at the loss of biodiversity, but you completely avoided speaking about this as a function of this satellite because scientists have such grim outlook of the future that they feel they cannot discuss optimistically with people who are not experts. And this obvious avoidance of discussion (of challenges scientists face to keep progress healthy for us and our planet) with average day people is starting to show in our leaders.