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Technology Exploration

Purpose

The purpose of the Technology Exploration Interest Group is to serve as a forum for exchange of technical information and lessons-learned experience about current and trending technologies related to the use and distribution of space-based Earth observation data.

The primary goals of the Technology Exploration Interest Group are to:

  • Give CEOS/WGISS members opportunities to collaborate and discuss present and future technology solutions;
  • Research technologies that can help the Earth observation community be flexible and adaptable in their IT infrastructure;
  • Help facilitate CEOS/WGISS understanding of all generations of technology and support the implementation of both legacy and leading-edge technologies into Earth observation data systems;
  • Promote technologies in CEOS/WGISS that prove beneficial to the Earth observation community.

Scope

Current Topics include:

  1. Artificial Intelligence
  2. Big Data, HPC and Cloud Computing
    1. CEOS needs and Challenges
    2. Distributed data centers
    3. Data processing (including Data cubes)
    4. Data distribution
    5. Data Analysis (including environment analysis)
    6. API and use of standards
    7. Network (bandwidth, application)
    8. Advantages and disadvantages
  3. Visualization of Data
    1. Web-based visualization
    2. Volume rendering
    3. Tiling
    4. Augmented reality
  4. Usage metrics, dataset metrics

Webinars

The Technology Exploration Interest Group have run a number of webinars on various topics. Information (including some recordings) from these webinars can be found here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)

AI/ML is becoming an increasingly important topic globally, including within the realm of Earth observation. Due to the fast evolving nature of this topic, the team has decided to publish a ‘living white paper’ on GitHub, compiling CEOS Agency efforts on this topic, which will continue to evolve as the topic evolves. Contributions from across the EO community are welcome, and the repository can be found here: https://github.com/ceos-org/aiml-white-paper

If you would like to contribute but are not familiar with GitHub, please contact the leads below. 

Contact Us

Please feel free to contact this Interest Group for more information:

Yousuke Ikehata – JAXA