Open-Earth-Monitor project launch

Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the European Green Deal

Wageningen, Netherlands | online
19 July 2022

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open-earth-monitor project

We aim to connect
user communities
with Big Earth Data

Open-Earth-Monitor is a EU-Horizon Europe funded project that aims at building an open-source cyberinfrastructure to accelerate uptake of environmental information and help build user communities at European and global levels.

Starting date: 1st of June 2022

Hybrid event

Why join this
public workshop?

Discover the Open-Earth-Monitor project values and explore how you can become central in the design and testing of the first FAIR-cyber infrastructure. Seize the chance to network and connect with international organizations!

The programme

9:00 – 9:35

Introduction to the project: what is the OEM cyberinfrastructure project?

LIVE

Tomislav Hengl
(OpenGeoHub)

Room C0222

9:35 – 9:50

Enabling bottom-up governance of environmental data

LIVE

Ichsani Wheeler
(OpenGeoHub)

Room C0222

9:50 – 10:10 

Anchoring Open-Earth-Monitor to the twin transition

LIVE

Jean Dusart
(Project Officer at European Commission DG Research & Innovation)

Room C0222

10:10 – 10:30 

EuroGEO related project portfolio

LIVE

Erwin Goor
(Project Officer, Environmental observation at European Commission – European Research Executive Agency)

Room C0222

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

1st floor cafeteria

11:00 – 11:30

Earth Observation Land Data & Services  beyond 2022

  LIVE

Joanna Ruiter
(Netherlands Space Office)

Room C0222

11:30 – 12:00

EO Platforms and open science in support of Green Deal ambitions 

  LIVE

Patrick Griffiths
(European Space Agency)

Room C0222

12:00 – 12:30

Data and governance gaps in the context of achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (SDG Target 15.3)

  LIVE

Barron Joseph Orr
(Lead Scientist, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)

Room C0222

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

Interactive demos:
Test existing tools and discover
projects directly with the creators!

1st floor cafeteria

Hall in front of room C0222

13:30 – 14:00

Better connecting the European groundbased forest inventories with EO data; 27 years experiences with gathering ground based data

  LIVE

Gert-Jan Nabuurs
(Wageningen University and Research)

Room C0222

14:00 – 14:30

Open knowledge to bridge the digital divide

  LIVE

Yana Gevorgyan
(Geo Secretariat)

Room C0222

14:30 – 15:00

Mapping Land Use and Land Cover: The Challenges of Going Glocal

  LIVE

Gilberto Camara
(Senior Researcher, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil)

Room C0222

15:00 – 15:30 

Coffee break

Interactive demos:
Test existing tools and discover projects directly with the creators!

 

1st floor cafeteria

15:30 – 16:00

Need for environmental observation data: working with the private sector and investors

  LIVE

Dagmar Mooij
(IDH-The Sustainable Trade Initiative)

Room C0222

16:00 – 16:30

Global land cover and land use monitoring

  LIVE

Matt Hansen
(Co-director at Global Land Analysis and Discovery)

Room C0222

16:30 – 17:00

EO4EU: AI-augmented ecosystem for EO data accessibility with XR User Interfaces for Service and Data Exploitation

LIVE

Stathes P.
Hadjiefthymiades

(Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, EO4EU project)

Room C0222

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion forum “How can EO and AI help deliver green new deal/ what could be the most cost-effective path — the win-win-win?” LIVE

Panel: all keynote speakers
Moderator: Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub)

Room C0222

17:30 – 18:00

Happy hour

1st floor cafeteria

Demo session 1: 13:10 – 13:25

1) Accessing and using the Open Environmental Data Cube for Europe 2000–2022+

 

with Leandro Parente - OpenGeoHub

https://EcoDataCube.eu 

 

2) Monitoring deforestation in Amazonia with sits R package

 

with Rolf Simoes - INPE, Brazil

"sits is an open source R package for satellite image time series analysis. It uses machine learning techniques for classifying image time series obtained from earth observation data cubes. In this demo session, we show a case study on deforestation mapping in Rondonia, one of the most deforested regions in the Brazilian Amazon."

https://e-sensing.github.io/sitsbook/

 

3) OpenEO platform

 

with Peter Zellner - EURAC

"openEO platform provides intuitive programming libraries to process a wide variety of earth observation datasets. This large-scale data access and processing is performed on multiple infrastructures, which all support the openEO API. This allows use cases from explorative research to large-scale production of EO-derived maps and information."

https://docs.openeo.cloud/

 

4) Spatio-temporal Earth Diagnosis with data cubes

 

with Markus Reichstein -  Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC)

https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgi/

 

Demo session 2: 15:05 – 15:25

1) CREAF web map client. How to do band calculations at screen resolution in real time with JavaScript binary arrays

 

with Joan Maso Pau - University of Barcelona

https://www.creaf.cat/earth-observation-services

 

2) SM2RAIN dataset for climate

 

with Luca Ciabatta - CNR-IRPI

http://hydrology.irpi.cnr.it/download-area/sm2rain-data-sets/

 

3) LandGriffon Solutions. Unlocking the sustainability of companies Supply Chain

with Maria Ricart - Vizzuality


"LandGriffon's purpose is to help companies sustainably transform the global agricultural system at the pace urgently needed to address climate change, preserve biodiversity, and tackle inequality." 

https://www.landgriffon.com

 

4) Building open data analysis communities: co-creation and co-design

with Edzer Pebesma - ifGI, University of Muenster

 

"From my experience in the R-spatial user and developer communities, I will speculate how we can make the collection of data and the creation of derived products more inclusive. I think that data and derived products are more a means to get a communication going than an end in themselves, and will suggest aspects we should try to do or rather avoid."

https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geoinformatics/en/institute/staff/index.php/119/edzer_pebesma

All the sessions will be live streamed on Eventbrite through the ZOOM live-streaming service. Register on Eventbrite and select the sessions of your interest to follow the live-stream from your location! 

When you register, you will receive link to the Open-Earth-Monitor online event page in your confirmation email. You must join from the online event page (on Eventbrite).

Find out more. Eventbrite - Analyst Reviews, Pricing & Features 2022 | TEC

Keynote speakers

"EuroGEO related project portfolio"

Erwin Goor

Project Officer, Environmental observation at European Commission
REA
"Anchoring Open-Earth-Monitor to the twin transition”

Jean Dusart

Policy Officer at the European Commission DG Research & Innovation
"Earth Observation Land Data & Services beyond 2022"

Joanna Ruiter

Advisor Satellite Applications at the Netherlands Space Office
"Need for environmental observation data: working with the private sector and investors"

Dagmar Mooij

Program Manager LDN TAF at IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative
"Global land cover and land use
monitoring"

Matt Hansen

Co-Director at the Global Land Aanlysis & Discovery
University of Maryland
"Open knowledge to bridge the digital divide"

Yana Gevorgyan

Director at Group on Earth
Observations Secretariat
"EO Platforms and open science
in support of Green Deal ambitions"

Patrick Griffiths

European Space Agency Technical
Officer
"EO4EU: AI-augmented ecosystem for EO data accessibility with XR User Interfaces for Service and Data Exploitation"

Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

Professor at the University of Athens, EO4EU project
"Better connecting the European groundbased forest inventories with EO data; 27 years experiences with gathering ground based data"

Gert-Jan Nabuurs

Professor European forest resources at Wageningen University and Research
"Data and governance gaps in the context of achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (SDG Target 15.3)"

Barron Joseph Orr

Lead Scientist, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
"Mapping Land Use and Land Cover: The Challenges of Going Glocal"

Gilberto Camara

Senior Researcher, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
OPEN-EARTH-MONITOR PROJECT LAUNCH

What to expect

Connecting data science
to the ground

We want to build bridges connecting (Big) Earth Observation Data with the real world. How do we turn useful environmental information into action? Follow our live feedback throughout!

How to produce and release FAIR environmental data?

We aim to facilitate the uptake of environmental information for everyone by making data easier to access, understand and use.
Ask, discuss, suggest:

Let’s find out how.

Enabling bottom-up governance for
environmental data

Discover how people and their stories from the ground are vital to effectively monitoring Earth and land changes. Connect, explore and be part of the early user-testing!

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Forum building - Wageningen University and Research Campus
The Netherlands

Forum – Wageningen Campus

Ph: +31 721 1063

Wageningen University Campus
Wageningen,
The Netherlands

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