The Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE), aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community, by bringing together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organisations and the research and education community, through ready-to-use service agreements and €9.5 million in adoption funding. Cloud-based services offer the European research community a wealth of powerful tools,

The Event takes place the 7th of March You can register to the event here: https://goo.gl/forms/x7AWuvByYe2e2mio2 This is the 3ed IDEEO workshop. It will start at 8:30 and end at 17:00. It will take place Scotland House | Rond-Point Schuman 6 | B-1040 Brussels, Belgium Agenda Time Activity 8h30 – 9h00 Registration & Coffee 9h00

GEO member agencies and research organizations from developing countries are now able to access cloud services to help with the hosting, processing and analysis of big data about the Earth to inform decisions for sustainable development.

Silex Clouds S.R.L. is centered on the provision of valuable information and services derived from the exploitation of Earth Observation (EO) satellites datasets, complex satellite image processing techniques and GIS procedures, in Near Real Time (NRT) and in interoperable formats, oriented to the monitoring of different earth phenomena to speed up impact assessment analysis.

Introduction:

Quality Assurance (QA) is the concern of all actors in the EO value chain from the Data acquisition to the end-user. It is a component of the value of any EO services or products. Companies are looking at solutions to smooth their process, to integrate various sources of data, to increase sales. Is current QA performance enough? How could we improve the QA? How could we use QA to increase the uptake of EO, improve the value of services and products?
Starting with the view of EO private or public customers from verticals (Oil& Gas, Agro-Insurance, Assurance, Environment), the workshop will explore the different approaches of QA, opportunities or improvement and a road map for implementation.

For all of these reasons, ESA is organizing a workshop around Quality Assurance at the ESRIN, April 9 & 10 2019.

You can register to the event here

Agenda

Day 1, April 9

09.00 – 09.30 Registration

09.30 – 09.45 Welcome and Objectives – ESA

09.45 – 11.00 – Session 1 – Context

Presentation 1 – EARSC – Industry context (15 min)

Presentation 2 – NPL – Quality Assurance methodologies (20 min)

Presentation 3 – Verticals expectations, 4 talks 10 min each,

· oil/gas, speaker from the IOGP

· insurance, speaker to be confirmed

· agro-insurance, speaker to be confirmed

· Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK, Dr Gwawr Jones

11.00-11.20 Break

11.20-12.00 Panel Discussion (QA and discussion),

12.00-12.10 set-up for Session 2

panel: session 1 presenters + esa representatives

12.10 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30-17.30 Session 2: Table Sessions (15.00-15.15 break)

all tables have the same questions to discuss/answer. 2-3 questions per topic, reporter from each table

Topic 1 – Mission Operator and Data Provider capabilities

Topic 2 – Value Adding Industry Requirements and Capabilities

Topic 3 – End Customer Expectations and Requirements

Day 2, April 10

09.00-09.30 – Summary presentation

09.30-11.00 – Strategy and prioritization/ actions working at the tables

11.00 – 11.15 Break

11.15 – 12.30 Plenary Discussions and Next Steps – Chaired by ESA

12.30 Close – ESA

More information can be found under the picture.