The Environmental Atlas of Europe illustrates the local impact of climate change through a visual and easy-to-access online application.

It is a joint project of the European Environment Agency (EEA), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and ESA. It shows the significance of environmental change depicted in comparisons of stunning satellite images through the years and the different ways people are responding to these changes. ESA provided a variety of up-to-date, captivating satellite images and products from various European satellites. These range from ship ice roads in the Baltic Sea to the river systems of Albania, from a gigantic plankton bloom off the Irish coast to the reduction of agricultural land in south-east Georgia. Each of these images will help to make the viewer understand the environmental, scientific and political issues we are facing today.

This image shows the topography over the Netherlands and part of Germany. Digital elevation data was used to create a traditional topography map, onto which two layers are overlaid showing a possible sea level rise of 0.65 m and 1.3 m.

More information: www.esa.int
Source: http://environmental-atlas.cloudapp.net/