Organized by OpenGeoHub foundation in collaboration with Eurac Research, the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023 will bring together European and global actors in the field of open-source Earth Observation applications in policy, business, research and for society.
This international event will connect project partners, including data and environmental researchers, public and private sector developers, EU decision- and policymakers, representatives from global institutions, the business sector and civil society to discuss and test solutions to the greatest challenges in geospatial applications.
Through five days featuring international keynote speakers, scientific presentations, discussions, and demonstrative workshops, the participants of the OEMC Global Workshop 2023 will explore valuable opportunities and establish tangible collaborations to improve geospatial research and application products in open-source.
Earth Observations and geospatial data —and their derived information— play crucial roles in monitoring regional, national and global environmental and climate targets proposed by the ambitious European Green Deal. Practitioners and decision-makers are therefore in need of accessible, science-based tools for timely and informed decisions as well as for long-term planning, progress tracking and transparent evaluation processes.
Open-Earth-Monitor project’s main aim is to directly support the implementation of the European Green Deal, and the European Digital Transition, the EuroGEO (Europe’s part of the Group on Earth Observations) and overall the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How? By producing and integrating a range of open-source, data-based and user-friendly tools to monitor European and global environmental trends, and for ecosystem services accounting in constant collaboration with user communities.
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- How can science support policy? The support of Earth Observation and Machine Learning technologies to the EU Green Deal
- Cross-disciplinary collaborations: connecting science with policy, business and society
- Engaging with user communities and stakeholders in EO, environmental data and open-source communities
- Monitoring of European and global trends of climate, land cover, vegetation, hydrology, soil, and defining ecosystem accounting
- Promoting young talents in data and environmental science
- Bring together multiple EU-funded projects working on open environmental data projects, Digital Twin Earth, open EO and open source software for Machine Learning
- Present intermediate project outputs and collect feedback
- Produce joint discussion documents and good practice guidelines
- Produce high quality scientific outputs through special issues
The call for abstracts is now closed. You can go through the first version of the program by clicking on the button below.
The Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023 aims to become one of the flagship events for the open-source geospatial community in Europe. While the focus of the workshops is open-source software and methods in support of European policies and decision-making, we wish to provide a stage to a broader variety of knowledge and experiences, where new methods, tools and approaches are shared and novel collaborations are established.
Some of the expected topics will be the research and application of geospatial technologies in various fields including governance, industries and in the public sector. We will focus also on the role of user communities and businesses in research and advancements in the open-source EO and Machine Learning technologies to achieve both digital and green transitions.
The fee covers the costs of facilities, lunches, coffee breaks and social events and is on a cost-recovery basis. No profits are made from organizing this event; there are no additional overheads charged to participants.
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Venue – Institute for Earth Observation
Viale Druso 1
meeting@eurac.edu
The role of EO in support of the Green Deal ambitions can be considerable: upcoming and future observational capabilities together with state-of-the-art analytics will be important, hopefully, powered by a federated platform ecosystem and open science.
Patrick Griffiths
European Space Agency
The Open-Earth-Monitor project aims to build a F.A.I.R.-compliant cyberinfrastructure to accelerate the uptake of environmental information and help build user communities at European and global levels.
Funded by the Horizon-Europe programme of the European Commission, a consortium of 23 partners led by the OpenGeoHub foundation will provide operational solutions and decision-making tools for European and global initiatives such as DestinE, Digital Twin Initiative, Fit for 55, UN sustainable development goals and more.
Key project deliverables and components of the cyberinfrastructure are:
- Stakeholder committee and user engagement plans throughout the project’s entire duration
- High-performance computing engine and on-site data services
- Tools directly serving EU citizens and governance needs via easy-to-use data portals and apps
- Tools serving global governance needs
