“Continuous investment in Earth Intelligence is essential to build a resilient future. The socio-economic benefits study on Copernicus’ global reanalysis data, ERA5, clearly demonstrates that when high-quality, open data are transformed into actionable insights, every euro invested can return many times its value to society.”

The European Union Satellite Centre supports EU decision-making and actions through geospatial intelligence. Within GEO, it leads the SPACE-SECURITY Convener to connect capabilities across domains and strengthen coordination in addressing evolving global security challenges.

Investing in Earth Intelligence is fundamental to strengthening climate resilience and enabling effective adaptation to climate change impacts. Recent years have shown that extreme weather events – from heatwaves and droughts to heavy precipitation and flooding - are becoming more frequent and impactful, affecting infrastructure and ecosystems as well as human health and lives. The German National Meteorological Service, DWD, provides the scientific foundation to monitor, forecast and project the changing climate risks in support of optimum adaptation to climate change. Our new reference ensembles for instance comprise the latest generation of regional climate projections and undergo a rigorous multi-step evaluation against observations - by disregarding implausible simulations of the past. The resulting ensembles provide a robust and consistent basis for evidence-based adaptation decisions across sectors and regions in Germany. In line with emerging European approaches, such validated data are essential to assess long-term climate variability and trends, anticipate related climate risks, and guide forward-looking adaptation pathways for a resilient future.

EO College makes Earth observation knowledge accessible to a broad community of users – from schools to adult education – and supports the sustainable development of capabilities in working with remote sensing data. The platform offers open educational resources such as online courses, tutorials, and teaching materials under open licenses (https://eo-college.org/). EO College is operated by EO College e.V. and Ruhr University Bochum and funded by the German Space Agency at DLR.

GEO-LDN is about turning data into action. We support countries affected by land degradation not only in meeting SDG 15.3.1 reporting requirements, but in using Earth observation data for better, evidence-based land use decisions. At the same time, ongoing efforts focus on improving access to high-resolution geodata, contributing to global geospatial reporting standards, and enhancing synergies across the Rio Conventions.

“In a rapidly changing world, Earth Intelligence needs to go further, delivering real impact, not just access. Inspired by open data, strong collaboration, and landmark events like the IAF Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC 2026), we are growing a dynamic ecosystem where innovation and partnership drive space solutions for a resilient, sustainable future.”

Being part of the global GEO network assures the sharing of knowledge and provides opportunities for collaboration and co-creation of tools, training/education materials and innovative technologies. We apply earth observation data and geoinformation science in four profiling themes which are closely aligned with GEO’s priorities: GEO AI, Resource Security, Urban Futures and Disaster Resilience.

ITC-is part of the Open Science network. ITC is actively involved in several GEO flagships and initiatives as participants in regional events, as members of the sub-groups or as co-chairs. Our mission is institutional strengthening in and with partners in the Majority World.

Italy is strengthening the coordination amongst national experts involved in Earth Observation (EO) domains through the GEO-ITALY Group (www.geoitaly.org). The GEO-ITALY overarching goal is to reinforce the synergies amongst involved institutions in Italy, thus facilitating a broad range of capacity building and outreaching activities to stakeholders and policy makers both at national and international level. Members of GEO-ITALY are scientists, researchers and managers employed in several Institutes of the National Research Council of Italy, in the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), in the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), in many other public institutions in the Country, such as the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), as well as in private companies such as PLANETEK, e-GEOS, MEEO, Latitudo 40 and TEAMDEV. GEO-ITALY goal is to support the achievement of goals and objectives of the GEO post-2025 Strategic Implementation Plan and its work program for 2025-2030 period, through an active participation to the various GEO initiatives, flagships and incubator programs.

The Global Observing System for Mercury (GOS4M) Flagship main challenge is to foster the sharing of monitoring data and modelling tools to support the policy implementation. GOS4M (www.gos4m.org) is aimed to federate existing networks, monitoring programmes and observing infrastructures – currently it provides a link to the Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS – www.gmos.eu) and major existing regional networks. During the last year GOS4M developed the Knowledge Hub aimed to support the achievement of the objectives of international programmes and conventions related to mercury pollution which include UNEP, Minamata Convention on Mercury (MCM) Secretariat, UNECE-LRTAP and 2030 UN Agenda on SD. Special attention is paid to support all interested Parties in the implementation of the MCM. To this end global comparable monitoring data, validated models and policy interoperable tools are provided as part of the GOS4M Knowledge Hub designed to evaluate the relationship between cause and impact of mercury contamination, analyse cost-effective strategies aiming at reduce the mercury contamination at regional and global scale and co-design policy scenarios aiming to achieve the target of the MCM. GOS4M is contributing to the GEO Knowledge Hub enabling open access to core data, tools, and applications, which are essential to delivering on the vision of “Earth Intelligence for All”. The GOS4M implements the GEO’s Open Data Sharing Principles and Open Knowledge framework for delivering actionable information to users, stakeholders and decision makers.

Italy is continuing its longstanding activity to enhance the discovery and accessibility of data, information, and knowledge. It supports the GEO effort for an open and public infrastructure for data sharing and knowledge generation to deliver Earth Intelligence according to the GEO Statement for Open Knowledge. Italy carries out activities for facilitating data sharing, developing the Discovery and Access Broker (DAB), and for knowledge generation and management developing the Virtual Earth Laboratory (VLab), a knowledge platform for model sharing and running in multicloud environments. Italy is co-chair of the GEOSS Platform Operation Team (GPOT) and member of the GEO Infrastructure Development Task Team (GIDTT). It also participates in the activity of the GEO Data Working Group and its sub-groups. For the advancement and evolution of the GEO infrastructure, collaborations are ongoing with ESA, EC-JRC, USA (USGS), Germany (DWD), Switzerland (University of Geneva), China (Ministry of Science and Technology).

A further contribution of Italy to the many GEOSS Ecosystems tasks is offered by the GEO ECO (GEO Global Ecosystem) Community Activity and Action Group, co-lead by CNR. GEO ECO builds up and extends the approach used in the European Horizon 2020 ECOPOTENTIAL project, led by CNR, and from a few other initiatives, to other protected areas in Europe and in other continents. GEO ECO aims to use available Earth Observation data, research results and tools on a global scale for enhancing knowledge on natural ecosystems, identifying protected areas (PAs) of international relevance as focus areas for its activities, as they are aimed to preserve natural ecosystems, and thus have a high intrinsic value for human societies. In Italy, a key PA will be the Gran Paradiso and the Alta Murgia National Parks, also involved in ECOPOTENTIAL, the former H2020 project on Earth Observation data for ecosystems in protected areas supporting GEO (2015-2019). The detection and modelling of the state and development of natural ecosystems in PAs is a priority for monitoring the advancement of the SDG 14 and 15. It also extends its analysis to unprotected areas. GEO ECO is adopting the view of ecosystems as "one physical system" with their environment, characterized by strong geosphere-biosphere-anthroposphere interactions across multiple space and time scales. The GEO ECO implementation plan can be downloaded here: www.earthobservations.org/documents/gwp20_22/GEO-ECO.pdf

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) actively supports GEO Initiatives related to Disasters Risk Reduction (DRR) like GEO Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratory initiative (GSNL), a voluntary international partnership aiming to improve, through an Open Science approach, geophysical scientific research and geohazard assessment in support of DRR. ASI regularly provides thousands of products from its national assets (mainly COSMO-SkyMed but also PRISMA and SAOCOM, in the latter case over ASI Zone of Exclusivity (ZoE)) to all the 13 Supersites and Natural laboratories all over the world, which represent multi-hazards pilot projects aiming at demonstrating the value of earth observation data for DRR as well as to build regional capacity in this sector.

Italy, through the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica and Vulcanologia, supports with important in-kind resources, the Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories GEO flagship (GEO-GSNL), established in 2010 under the Disaster SBA. GSNL is a network of 14 Supersites where a large community of scientists works to generate products for science-based decision making in Disaster Risk Management. The initiative is supported by CEOS space agencies and local monitoring organizations, which provide critical satellite imagery and in situ data. By championing an Open Science approach, GSNL promotes the sharing of knowledge, technological innovation, and capacity building. Furthermore, because Supersite coordinators are key figures in national disaster prevention frameworks, they ensure that scientific findings are delivered directly to decision-makers for immediate societal benefit. The Italian Space Agency (ASI) further bolsters this mission by providing over 2,500 COSMO-SkyMed products annually, a vital resource for achieving GSNL’s objectives.

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has launched on 22 March 2019 the PRISMA satellite carrying an hyperspectral sensor with a Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) of 30 m and covering the wavelength range from 400 nm to 2500 nm, with 10 nm spectral sampling. The launch was successful and the in-orbit commissioning has been completed, allowing PRISMA data to be accessible since May 2020 through the dedicated portal https://prisma.asi.it/. Data policy is based on a quasi-open and free access, with limitations on products per user quantities and on priorities for acquisition requests conflicts solving, to cope with the operational capabilities of the mission. Data policy allows commercial exploitation of value added product/services still delivering free of charge but forbids PRISMA original data redistribution. PRISMA catalog is now visible through GEOSS.

Italy has supported the GEO and UN-Habitat “Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements” Programme, contributing to EO4SDG Initiative by the integration of Earth Observation (EO) and geospatial information into urban monitoring and reporting processes for SDG targets and indicators. Within this framework, and through the contribution to the EuroGEO Urban Action Group, the Italian activities currently focus on strengthening the role of EO in supporting urban policy implementation. This includes the development of high-resolution EO-based products and services, integration of satellite and in situ data, and the use of advanced modelling and AI approaches to generate actionable environmental intelligence addressing key urban challenges such as air pollution and urban heat islands. In particular, ongoing efforts such as the APEMAIA project contribute to improving air quality assessment at urban scale, while previous initiatives like ERA-PLANET (e.g. GEOEssential and SMURBS) have supported co-design approaches and demonstrated the societal value of EO applications. Building on this experience, a key priority is to enhance awareness, capacity building, and knowledge transfer towards policy and decision-makers, fostering the uptake of EO-based solutions in governance processes and supporting evidence-based strategies for sustainable and inclusive urban development.

Italy contributes to the GEO-LDN initiative for monitoring by RS data the conditions prone to Land Degradation and Desertification. CNR-IIA led the LIFE Preparatory Project NewLife4Drylands (www.newlife4drylands.eu) (2021-2024) and now coordinates the Earth Observation Work Package of the HE MONALISA (www.monalisa4land.eu) project (2024-2028), working on the computation of the SDG 15.3.1 indicator of the UN 2030 Agenda. Such an estimate, integrated at a local scale with additional sub-indicators related to the local pressures and threats, can support decision-making processes within the framework of preserving soil health and reversing land degradation and desertification.

The Italian National Copernicus User Forum is an instrument of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers aimed at fostering interaction among different user communities (Institutions, Research, and the Private Sector) for the sharing of information related to the Copernicus programme and the collection of user needs. The Forum's goal is to systematize the requirements expressed by users in order to maximize the development and use of Earth Observation products and to identify development priorities by defining a coordinated national position having a significant impact on the expansion of the Copernicus programme. The National Forum is composed of representatives from various user communities, including public institutions and bodies, organizations dedicated to research and education, private and commercial entities, charities, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations that benefit from Copernicus data and information. The Forum take advantage also of thematic user consultation groups. Each representative coordinates and gathers the needs and contributions of their respective communities in order to influence the development of the European Programme. ISPRA (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) ensures the technical secretariat activities and provides technical support for coordination. Coordinated by the national delegate to the Copernicus Committee and alternate to the European User Forum, the Italian Forum serves as the information and communication tool of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers on the European and national developments of the Programme. It is the venue where the needs of national users for the use of Copernicus products are coordinated, and where a harmonized and agreed position is ensured at the European level.

The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation) actively supports GEO initiatives throughout different activities and projects. The SDGs-EYES platform developed in the frame of the Horizon Europe SDGs-EYES project is a use case under an operational pipeline (“Data infrastructure”) to support sustainability of EUROGEOSec. This activity aligns with the GEO’s Research-to-Operation pipeline and the Operational Pipelines framework, helping bridge the gap between research outputs and operational. The SDGs-EYES platform provides a portfolio of services for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 13 ‘Climate Action’, SDG 14 ‘Life below Water’ and SDG 15 ‘Life on Land’) and through the EO4SDG initiative is contributing to discussion on the Post-2025 GEO Work Program development. CMCC has led the GEO Carbon Task from 2010 to 2017 and co-led the GEO Carbon and GHG initiative. By hosting the ICOS Ecosystem Thematic Centre, CMCC plays a key role in linking existing coordinated EO networks with the science and technology communities, the industry sector and the GEOSS and Copernicus stakeholders. Thanks to the coordination of the CONCERTO project funded in the EC-ESA Earth System Science Initiative (ESSI) and to the participation in ESA FuturEO programme and Climate Change initiative (CCI), CMCC is contributing to the GEO Carbon task.

Italy is contributing to AfriGEOSS, by the EC Project PanAfGeo+ - Support to Geological Science and Technology. PanAfGeo+ is the 3rd phase of a long-term PanAfGeo programme, a unique pan-African geosciences training project, based on cooperation between the African Union and the European Union. Co-funded by the European Union and a consortium of European geological surveys since 2016, PanAfGeo is helping to strengthen collaboration between the associations of European geological surveys (EuroGeoSurveys) and African geological surveys (OAGS), as well as contributing to the Africa-EU partnership. PanAfGeo+, with a 4-years duration (2025-2029), represents a follow-up of the previous two phases, the first between 2016 and 2019 and the second between 2021 and 2024. Overall, the PanAfGeo programme represents an investment of around €45 million. The project supports the training of over 800 young geoscientists from African Geological Surveys through the development of 40 basic and advanced training sessionsaiming at increasing African-owned geological knowledge and skills for sustainable mineral exploitation and related infrastructures, and natural disaster prevention and mitigation. Specifically, the PanAfGeo programme enhances the capacity and role of African national Geological Surveys; ● Contributing to mineral resource assessments by national Geological Surveys in Africa; ● Increasing the activity of national Geological Surveys in regional mapping and exploration to upgrade their geoscientific information base and mineral inventories; ● Strengthening the level of geological knowledge and skills in national Geological Surveys through training; ● Strengthening OAGS’ potential to meet the needs of the African continent. Since 2016, capacity building has been so far addressed to over 1,750 geoscientists from the 54 African countries with the organization of 72 short- and medium-term trainings in 22 African host countries. The training sessions focused on a wide range of geosciences topics such as satellite imagery analysis, geological mapping through GIS techniques, geo-hazards geochemistry and analytical chemistry, economic geology, mineral exploration. ISPRA is currently involved in PanAfGeo+ in the following WPs: Geoscientific Mapping, Mineral Resources Assessment, Geohazards and Environmental Management of Mines, Geoheritage More details of the project in: https:// panafgeo.eurogeosurveys.org

Italy is part of the e-GENESIS project, which is aimed to operationalise Earth Intelligence by transforming Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence and emerging digital technologies into actionable insights that support EU policy implementation and strategic decision-making. It develops, scales, and demonstrates integrated solutions that strengthen the resilience of ecosystems, biodiversity, water resources, urban systems, and energy sectors, while also contributing to public health and climate adaptation. These services address climate and anthropogenic anomalies through spatially detailed, temporally updated, and territorially scalable intelligence, fully aligned with the strategic objectives of GEO, EuroGEO, Copernicus, and EC KCEO. e-GENESIS evolves through a phased approach beginning with a co-design process that actively engages stakeholders from Entrusted Entities, the Copernicus User Forum, EuroGEO Action Groups, KCEO, and private sector. This ensures that the services are user-driven, policy-relevant, and designed for real-world uptake. Subsequent phases deliver prototyping, validation, and operational deployment, while systematic societal benefit assessments ensure measurable impact. Methodologically, e-GENESIS leverages Copernicus Core Services, European Data Spaces, ESFRIs, and federated cloud infrastructures, combined with modular AI/GenAI pipelines to deliver three interconnected pillars: (i) biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, (ii) water resource foresight and sustainability, and (iii) the urban-energy-health nexus under climate extremes. By aligning with major EU policy frameworks (e.g. Biodiversity Strategy 2030, Water Resilience Strategy, Zero Pollution Action Plan), and supporting EuroGEO and GEO post-2025 priorities, e-GENESIS accelerates the green and digital transition. Its co-design, training, and exploitation strategies ensure scalability, commercialisation, and long-term sustainability, reinforcing Europe’s leadership in operationalising EO-based Earth Intelligence for societal benefit.

Italy is participating to the construction of the EIRENE RI (Research Infrastructure for EnvIRonmental Exposure assessmeNt in Europe), an ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) infrastructure that is part of the national ESFRI roadmap since 2021, considered among the high-priority national RIs (PNIR 2021-2027 report). EIRENE aims to establish a sustainable research infrastructure enabling the advancement of exposome research in Europe by integrating the complementary capacities of European Member States, harmonizing and upgrading them to effectively address current scientific and societal challenges in the areas of chemical exposures and population health. EIRENE RI includes 21 national hubs and more than 50 individual partners. The contribution of Italy to EIRENE RI is through the National Node EIRENE RI – ITALY which is a Joint Research Unit (JRU) between the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) and the University of Calabria (UNICAL). The EIRENE-ITALY node integrates members’ competencies in various domains of Earth Observation data and technologies, Global Observing Systems, Forecasting Air Quality DSS (KHs, DTs), Near-surface Air Quality Validation, Bio-monitoring data, Epidemiology & Toxicology research, Exposome studies and Risk assessment. The overarching goal of EIRENE-ITALY is to foster a change of paradigm in linking environmental research with human exposure studies through a ONE HEALTH approach, where all major anthropogenic-related drivers are accounted for, that may lead to elaborate cost-effective strategies able to mitigate the risk associated to human exposure to major persistent contaminants. Italy is part of the EIRENE Implementation (EIRENE-IMP) project. EIRENE, the European InfrastRucturE for humaN Exposome, fills this gap and enables challenge-driven research advancing frontier knowledge and innovation in human exposome by providing open access to complementary high-end infrastructures, integrated services and harmonised data. The EIRENE’s ambition to operationalize the exposome by advancing measurement and modelling technologies extends beyond Europe. The development of global infrastructural capacities supporting the integration of functional exposomics into biomedical and clinical research, innovation, and practice planned in the EIRENE Implementation Phase Project will transform the entire biomedical and public health enterprise, enable agnostic studies and the discovery of unforeseen links between environmental exposures and health outcomes. Italy is part of the SIRENE (Services for envIRonmental Exposure and health assessmeNt in Europe) project. The ambition of the SIRENE is to increase the problem-solving capacity of European society in the Environmental and Public Health and improve capabilities to find and understand disease causations not explained by genetics. While the One Health framework is increasingly recognised as a critical approach to addressing planetary health risks, its practical implementation is limited by disciplinary silos. The SIRENE project brings together 11 ESFRI landmarks and projects to enable challenge-driven research linking environmental factors to human health and advance frontier knowledge and innovation in human exposome by providing open access to complementary high-end infrastructures, integrated services and harmonised data. The initiative will foster the GEO Health CoP and is part of GEO Flagship GOS4M and GEO Initiative GOS4POPs.

e-GEOS, a company owned by the Italian Space Agency (20%) and Telespazio (80%), part of Leonardo’s Space Division, is a global leader in advanced Geoinformation services and platforms, leveraging artificial intelligence and cloud technologies to deliver fast, digital and customized solutions across the geospatial domain. The company offers a unique range of application services, from data acquisition to the generation of analytics reports, thanks to its extensive satellite data portfolio and to the fast access to the superior monitoring capabilities of the COSMO-SkyMed SAR constellation. The e-GEOS geospatial solutions offering is accessible through CLEOS, a cloud-based information platform designed to unlock the value of geoinformation in AI-powered applications, providing an enhanced user experience and direct access to a marketplace for customized products. The e-GEOS application platforms include experienced and solid services for environmental protection, rush mapping in support to natural disaster management, specialized products for defence and intelligence, oil spill and ship detection, maritime surveillance and security, assets and critical infrastructures monitoring, landslides and ground subsidence analysis, thematic mapping for agriculture and forestry, climate change phenomena monitoring. e-GEOS has established a prominent role in major international Earth Observation programmes, including the European Copernicus Programme within which it leads multiple core activities, such as the Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping and the European Ground Motion Service

Planetek Italia is an Italian Benefit Company established in 1994, which employs 100+ women and men, passionate and skilled in Geoinformatics, Space solutions, and Earth science. Planetek provides solutions to exploit the value of geospatial data through all phases of data life cycle from acquisition, storage, management up to analysis and sharing. The company operates in many application areas ranging from environmental and land monitoring to open-government and smart cities, and including defence and security, as well as Space exploration and EO satellite missions. Among its main activity areas, the development of software for the satellite on-board data and image processing leads to the creation of a new business model called SpaceEdgeTM. SpaceEdgeTM is a new concept of satellite as-a-service powered by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhanced processing framework embarked on satellites, which makes available in-orbit payloads, resources, and services on-demand: services include EO data acquisition, processing, actionable information extraction, downlink, and distribution. Information detected in Space is then transferred back to the Ground as notifications and alerts or directly exploited on-board in autonomous decision workflows. Useless data and information non-relevant to the application’s workflow can be discarded, saving memory, bandwidth and thus increasing the efficiency and quality of automated pipelines too. The fields of application of on-board processing to reduce information latency are numerous, and will address GEO's priority engagement areas including the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Latitudo 40 is a startup founded by four deep tech and space experts in 2017, which now employs a team of more than 15 people, with a predominance of Data Science experts for the development of new algorithms based on AI/ML and generative AI applied to the analysis and understanding of multi-spectral and hyperspectral satellite imagery. Latitudo 40, to make the most of the value of geospatial data, has invested in the development of a cloud-based platform to be used in SaaS mode for the analysis and monitoring of urban environments, with particular reference to the issue of planning sustainable and resilient cities of the future, identifying the main risks for the population and infrastructures (urban heat islands, urban heat risks, floods) and creating a map of intervention priorities for public decision-makers and urban planners, indicating possible mitigation actions using Nature Base Solutions. In addition, Latitudo 40 has developed a dataspace from space to foster the adoption of Geospatial solutions. In this space, system integrators and developers can find always-available datasets to understand urban risks better and create new applications in city monitoring, precision agriculture and infrastructure monitoring. EarthDataPlace makes spatial datasets available to everyone easily, quickly and inexpensively. Latitudo 40 supports the market with a vision of "learning from the past, monitoring the present and designing the sustainable place of the future", and to pursue this strategy, it has launched its Place Simulator. This environmental scenario simulator takes as "input" the different options for modifying the environmental scenario (changes in land cover/land use, new trees or green areas, etc.). It generates as "output" synthetic satellite images obtained with Generative AI to assess the impact of the different scenarios and identify the best solution for the environment. The application areas of Latitudo 40 solutions provide a better and more detailed understanding of the variables that affect our environment and predominantly impact GEO's priority areas of endeavour, including the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

MEEO, as a pioneer in remote sensing and environmental data services since 2004, focuses on transforming raw satellite data into actionable insights. MEEO’s expertise extends to AI-powered geospatial analytics, enabling the development of sophisticated products and services for environmental monitoring, land management, and disaster management. The ADAM platform, a key offering from MEEO, provides user-friendly access to a wealth of geospatial data, underscoring their commitment to democratizing access to environmental information derived from Earth observations. The long-standing partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) further fuels the innovation in EO data exploitation, confirming the significant role within Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP), Destination Earth (DestinE) Platform, Global Development Assistance Analytics and Processing Platform (GDA APP), and many other initiatives.

TeamDev S.r.l. is an Innovative SME established in Perugia, Italy in 2008 specializing in information and communication technologies (ICT) with a strong focus on technological innovation, user interaction, and systems integration with third-party products. TeamDev has developed innovative solutions over the years at the national and international level in different application domains, from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Earth Observation (OT) to Big Data, using a mix of technological skills such as: Development, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data modeling and analysis. With these characteristics the company has acquired a wide portfolio of clients, including: large companies (GOPA, ...), public administration (Umbria Region, Independence Oregon, ...), NGOs (Legambiente, Save The Children, ...) and international institutions (NATO, WMO, ...). The areas of relevance are numerous: Smart City (https://wise.town/en/), agriculture, development of complex systems for public administration and private companies, development of human-machine interfaces in the industrial field, and others. TeamDev is a Silver Partner of Esri (https://www.esri.com/partners/teamdev-srl-a2T70000000TWcWEAW) and Gold Partner of Microsoft and with advanced experience in using Microsoft Azure services. In addition, it is a FIWARE Gold Partner (https://www.fiware.org/), a founding member of the European Space coop. (https://spacecoop.eu/), a BDVA-DARIO partner (https://www.bdva.eu/), and participates in the faculty board and co-funds the 39th & 40th cycle National Doctoral Fellowships on Earth Observation (DNOT – Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza” coordinator). WiseTown is our Smart City Platform able to develop a monitoring and predictive What if - Decision Support System for urban planning that improves citizens' quality of life, and increases the resilience and sustainability of cities. WiseTown provides an EO-based technological suite to monitor, predict, and optimize the effects of planned urban interventions.

The upgraded ‘Today’s Earth’ system demonstrates how Earth observation data, when combined with advanced hydrological modeling, can deliver actionable intelligence for flood forecasting and water management across borders.

The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) operates MOWLAS, an integrated observation network of approximately 2,200 stations that monitors earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity across Japan. By integrating the newly completed Nankai Trough Seafloor Observation Network (N-net), NIED has enhanced real-time monitoring capabilities, enabling earlier detection of offshore earthquakes and tsunamis and contributing to improved early warning and disaster risk reduction.

JICA, together with the WCO, is making GEOINT operational for customs—training Master Trainers to translate satellite imagery and spatial analysis into actionable targeting, patrol planning, and border risk management.

Through the BioClima project, Plan4all and its members are contributing to GEO’s efforts by bridging advanced AI and Earth Observation. Our work focuses on transforming complex environmental data into actionable insights and supporting the global collaboration needed to protect biodiversity and address climate challenges.

JackDaw was initially developed within PoliRuralPlus as a GeoLLM orchestration layer for authoritative geospatial data and analytical services. It has evolved into a catalogue-driven, tool-using framework for evidence-grounded Earth Intelligence workflows.

FOCAL provides the scientific and technical foundation for translating climate and Earth Observation data into practical forest-management intelligence. Info4Forest can build on FOCAL forest-use-case results and extend them through JackDaw as a GeoLLM-based advisory layer. This creates a direct pathway from FOCAL workflows to operational support for climate-adaptive forestry and resilient species-composition planning.

Space-based Earth observation is a vital tool for building resilience against disasters. Through UN-SPIDER, UNOOSA is committed to ensuring that countries everywhere — especially the most vulnerable — can access and effectively use satellite data to protect lives and communities. We are proud to contribute to the GEO community's mission of investing in Earth Intelligence for a resilient future.