@incollection{fdi:010076349, title = {{F}rom sustainable development to coviability - {T}he viewpoint of earth observation in the era of big data}, author = {{D}urieux, {L}aurent and {S}eyler, {F}r{\'e}d{\'e}rique and {L}aques, {A}nne-{E}lisabeth and {M}itja, {D}anielle and {D}ela{\^i}tre, {E}ric and {S}ouza {M}iranda, {I}. de}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}oday civil society have new expectations: scientists must not only measure risks and suggest solutions of mitigation or adaptation, but they also have to monitor and report changes in order to facilitate public decision. {R}eporting global change nowadays is based on indicators. {T}he main challenge is to find synthetic, and valid indicators for time and space scales relevant to challenges and to mitigation and adaptation policies. {S}imultaneously, {E}arth observation has largely evolved. {T}he number of spatial missions has drastically increased, and today we have relatively continuous data in space and in time. {T}his remote sensing evolution causes a shift of paradigm. {T}he richness of data, and the fact that they now cover a wide range of resolutions and temporal frequency, make a "bottom up" approach possible, which develops from the observations to construct a stochastic approach of the environmental and social dynamics at work. {T}his chapter will attempt to give some examples of holistic indicators of changes in the fields of global water resources and biodiversity loss, provoked by human impacts on the {A}mazonian agricultural frontier. {T}hese themes mobilize the concept of coviability between societies and their environment.}, keywords = {}, booktitle = {{C}oviability of social and ecological systems : reconnecting mankind to the biosphere in an era of global change. {V}ol. 2 : {C}oviability questioned by a diversity of situations}, numero = {}, pages = {285--304}, address = {{C}ham}, publisher = {{S}pringer}, series = {}, year = {2019}, DOI = {10.1007/978-3-319-78111-2_15}, ISBN = {978-3-319-78110-5}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010076349}, }