The aim of ESA-funded project “Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Extremes and Multi-hazard events—ARCEME” (June 2024 - May 2026) is to develop a framework to assess the biophysical and socio-economic impacts of cascading multi-hazard extreme events from a variety of angles and scales, relying on the power of EO. The specific objectives are :

1. to produce a database of cascading extreme events that combine drought, heat and heavy precipitation
2. to extract high resolution data cubes of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 Earth Observation data to characterize the identified events, understand their complex dynamics and determine their impact on the land surface and vegetation
3. to develop analytical case studies at different scales and to operationalize the use of EO data towards vulnerability assessment and disaster risk reduction.

Teber, K., Weynants, M., Gans, F., & Mahecha, M. D. (2025). Geo-Disasters: geocoding climate-related events in the international disaster database EM-DAT. Big Earth Data, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2576274

Our datasets are listed on the ESA Open Science Catalog, including the collections of Sentinel data cubes for the analysis of drought followed by extreme precipitation.

Teber, K., Weynants, M., Gans, F., & Mahecha, M. (2025). Geo-Disasters v 1.0.0 – Geocoded EM-DAT climate-disaster footprints (1990 – 2023) (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15487667

Weynants, M., Teber, K., Mahecha, M., & Gans, F. (2025). ARCEME Drought followed by Heavy Precipitation Database [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15705050

Weynants, M., Teber, K., Mahecha, M. D., Kluczek, M., Bojanowski, J. S., and Gans, F. (2026, May 08). Can Sentinel-2 help characterize the land management effect on the impact of drought followed by heavy precipitation in European agroecosystems?, Oral presentation at EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-13636, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-13636.

Teber, K., Weynants, M., Gans, F., Kluczek, M., Bojanowski, J. S., and Mahecha, M. D. (2026, May 08). A curated sentinel collection to study cascading droughts and extreme precipitation events, Oral presentation at EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-14030, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-14030, 2026.

Weynants, M., Teber, K., Gans, F., Kluczek, M., Bojanowski, J., Musial, J., & Mahecha, M. (2025, June 25). ARCEME: Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Extremes and Multi-hazard Events. Oral presentation. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15738073 or https://lps25.esa.int/lps25-presentations/presentations/777/

Weynants, M., Teber, K., Mahecha, M., Kluczek, M., Bojanowski, J., Musial, J., & Gans, F. (2025, June 25). ARCEME event database for cascading drought and extreme precipitation events. Poster. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15738346

Kluczek, M., Bojanowski, J.S., Musiał, J., Weynants, M., Gans, F., Teber, K., Mahecha, M.D. (2025, June 27). Cloud-based framework for data cubes extraction of extreme events. Poster. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025.

Teber, K., Weynants, M., Gans, F., Kluczek, M., Bojanowski, J., Musial, J., Mahecha, M.D (5-7 May 2025). ARCEME: Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Extremes and Multi-hazard Events. Poster. ESA-NASA International Workshop on AI Foundation Model for EO.

This project was funded by the European Space Agency in response to ESA CfP/5-50033/23/I-KE.