European Space Agency

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This fellowship aims to explore the use of space and ground-based EO products integrated with disruptive technologies to address climate adaptation, resilience and/or mitigation. For example:

• investigate how AI can be used to enhance EO for planning, implementing and monitoring climate adaptation and/or mitigation actions, including attributing any resulting changes from these actions;
• consider and assess relevant climate change metrics or indicators for the above point;
• design AI pipelines that fuse EO data and climate scenarios/projections (e.g., CMIP, CORDEX, DestinE Digital Twin for Climate Change Adaptation) to support decision-making frameworks for relevant sectors (e.g. European Commission’s Climate Action and the Green Deal);
• explore explainable AI techniques to enhance transparency or uncertainty propagation through the pipeline process;
• investigate which EO data can be most suitable for different climate adaptation/mitigation situations (e.g. required spatial and temporal resolutions);
• possible focus topics could include the urban environment, agriculture, health or adaptation to climate extremes (heatwaves, flooding, wildfires, droughts, storms and storm surges, etc.).

Please apply through jobs.esa.it Internal Research Fellow (PostDoc) in AI for Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Mitigation Job Details | ESA