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

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)