COPERNICUS AND THE ENERGY CHALLENGE

Abstract. The energy sector will drastically change in the following years; multiple agreements have been signed by countries with purpose to reduce carbon emission and contain global temperature increase. Besides, next years demand increase growth of Information Communications Technology sector. To combine these two aspects, future needs be produced renewable resources less fossil fuels. An opportunity discover plan use are geospatial data derived from satellite acquisitions. European Earth Observation programme Copernicus provides datasets an Open Science approach. Within this paper, offered services presented relation their exploitation for system analysis, a particular attention energy. analysed according properties possibility usage. Additional that can benefit emerging topic food-energy-water nexus finally point out significant development which is recently claiming growing attention.