2019 EDITION

The EU’s Copernicus programme: an opportunity for AI development

October 15, 2019 - 16:15 - 18:00
Fennia II Room
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Copernicus is the EU flagship Earth Observation programme with an estimated archive size of 40000 TB of open data by the end of 2022 and growing. Yet, to reach its full potential, it is crucial to bring it forward to all professional communities and especially the ICT community, engaging, in particular, the AI and Big Data stakeholders.

The Copernicus session at the European Big Data Value Forum will explore opportunities and challenges to fully exploit Copernicus data archives for large scale AI applications, shaping a beneficial framework to build the bridge between Earth Observation communities and AI/Big Data stakeholder groups.

PRESENTATIONS

SESSION CHAIR

  • Florin Șerban (Terrasigna)

 

TALKS

Copernicus and AI

  • Francesco Barbato (Policy Officer, European Commission)

 

ESA initiatives for Artificial Intelligence in Earth Observation

  • Sveinnung Loekken (Φ-lab, European Space Agency)

 

European Data Spaces – Earth Observation exploitation platforms – a business perspective

  • Florin Șerban (Managing Director, Terrasigna)

 

Data-driven Bioeconomy

  • Introduction to DataBio
    Thanasis Poulakidas (DataBio coordinator, INTRASOFT Intl)

 

  • DataBio pilot – Agriculture pilot
    Florin Șerban (Managing Director, Terrasigna)

 

  • DataBio pilot – Forestry pilot
    Philippe Ledent (Spacebel)

 

  • DataBio pilot – Fishery pilot
    SINTEF

 

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Techniques for Copernicus Data: the ExtremeEarth project

  • Manolis Koubarakis (professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of the Management of Information Systems)
SPEAKERS OF THIS SESSION
Florin Serban
Managing Director at Terrasigna
Francesco Barbato
Policy Officer at European Commission
Manolis Koubarakis
Professor at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Philippe Ledent
Business Unit ManagerSpacelabel
Sveinnung Loekken
Thanasis Poulakidas
DataBio coordinatorINTRASOFT Intl
DOCUMENTS
Copernicus and AI
European Data Spaces – Earth Observation exploitation platforms – a business perspective
Introduction to DataBio
DataBio pilot – Agriculture pilot
DataBio pilot – Forestry pilot
DataBio pilot – Fishery pilot
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Techniques for Copernicus Data: the ExtremeEarth project
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