Warming is making extreme wildfires more likely and more severe. ESA’s XFires project aims to gain a holistic understanding of what makes fires extreme, their drivers and their impacts on Earth’s system, helping inform climate models and adaptation policy. climate.esa.int/en/Cross_ECV...

Eurostat: Greece's South Aegean islands see 127 tourist nights for every resident. I keep thinking about what that number means when the people who need help do not know the island, and the people who know the island do not know where the tourists are.

Euronews@euronews.com · last wk.

New Eurostat data shows where tourists far outnumber residents, with Greece’s South Aegean recording more than 127 tourist nights for every resident.

EFFIS just moved to daily updates. 616,000 hectares burnt in the EU this year. Double the 20-year average. Greece is in the Extreme fire danger zone for the next 7 days. The map that argues back does not show you Greece. It shows you which ridge burns first.

ARGOS v0.0.1 is live. 12,217 roads. 22,013 buildings. 1,831 POIs. 197 beaches. One PostgreSQL database holding an entire Greek island. Click anything. A building, a beach, a road. It answers. Fire response time. Nearest port. As-the-ambulance-drives, not as-the-crow-flies. #geospatial #data

The EU just priced this summer's heat at €180 billion. Meanwhile I'm still trying to answer one question: if a fire starts on that ridge on Kefalonia, how long until the fire truck actually arrives? Continental frameworks are important. Local granularity is *urgent*

European News@eunews.social · 2w ago

Europe's scorching summer could cost EU economies €180 billion Extreme heat could cost EU economies around €180 billion this year, roughly 1% of GDP and almost exactly the growth the bloc had been expecting for 2026, with France facing the heaviest blow of the big member states.

Sea Surface Temperature is a key variable for monitoring #climatechange. Watch our tutorial "Sea Surface Temperature Trends Under Climate Change" to learn how to analyse #CopernicusMarine data using Python 👉 https://bit.ly/4hZjgfF 📸: European Union, Copernicus Marine Service Data

ARGOS ran its first road accessibility analysis across Kefalonia. Hardest place to reach? Alighthouse on Vardiani islet that was built by the British in 1824, bombed by the Italians in 1942 and flattened by the 1953 earthquakes. Accessible only by boat. #opensource #digitaltwin #kefalonia

Build Log #1 is love. 48 hours, one Sentinel-2 pass and a Python script I'm not proud of but that works. I wrote up the full pipeline, from downloading granules to the moment i realised NDVI 0.3 might mean just rocks. The satellite sees what it sees. We'll figure out the context together. #geo

Today GR Civil protection puts half the country (Attica, Viotia & Evia, Cyclades, Crete) in Code Red of wildfire danger for Sunday 16 Aug 2026. Full mobilisation and rightly so. But how does the daily risk map reach municipalities? How are decisions actually made? 1/2

Copernicus EMS: satellite to map in 24h. That problem is basically solved and it's incredible. What I'm trying to solve is a much smaller and much dumber: making sure that map reaches the right screen before the fire does, instead of dying in a PDF in someone's inbox #copernicus #wildfire #greece

Step 1 : From space, to understanding, in 48 hours — ARGOS just processed its first Sentinel-2 pass over Kefalonia #Sentinel2 #geospatial #kefalonia

Kefalonia has stunning beaches, great wine and zero real-time geospatial infrastructure. I'm fixing one of those. Meet ARGOS-not a beach, not a great wine but an open source digital twin for the entire island- Built in public, with a full-time job, because someone has to. 1/4