04/03/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday, 2 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission launched a ‘challenge’ in connection with the RACE (Rapid Action on Coronavirus and EO) dashboard in order to develop innovative ways to characterise ship dynamics, atmospheric parameters, and water quality by using Earth observation data, especially data from the European ‘Copernicus’ programme. The RACE platform was launched in June 2020 at the height of the pandemic...