Published March 26, 2019 | Version v1
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From Copernicus Big Data to Extreme Earth Analytics

Creators

  • 1. National Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • 2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • 3. University of Trento
  • 4. University of Tromsø
  • 5. National Center for Scientific Research - Demokritos
  • 6. LogicalClocks
  • 7. German Aerospace Center
  • 8. VISTA Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH
  • 9. Norwegian Meteorological Institute
  • 10. Polar View
  • 11. British Antarctic Survey

Description

Copernicus is the European programme for monitoring the Earth. It consists of a set of systems that collect data from satellites and in-situ sensors, process this data and provide users with reliable and up-to-date information on a range of environmental and security issues. The data and information processed and disseminated puts Copernicus at the forefront of the big data paradigm, giving rise to all relevant challenges, the so-called 5 Vs: volume, velocity, variety, veracity and value. In this short paper, we discuss the challenges of extracting information and knowledge from huge archives of Copernicus data. We propose to achieve this by scale-out distributed deep learning techniques that run on very big clusters offering virtual machines and GPUs. We also discuss the challenges of achieving scalability in the management of the extreme volumes of information and knowledge extracted from Copernicus data. The envisioned scientific and technical work will be carried out in the context of the H2020 project ExtremeEarth which starts in January 2019

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Funding

ExtremeEarth – From Copernicus Big Data to Extreme Earth Analytics 825258
European Commission