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  • Architecture and prototypical implementation of a semantic querying system for big Earth observation image bases

    • Authors: Tiede, D.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2017)

  • Spatiotemporal analytics of multi-source Earth observation (EO) big data is a pre-condition for semantic content-based image retrieval (SCBIR). As a proof of concept, an innovative EO semantic querying (EO-SQ) subsystem was designed and prototypically implemented in series with an EO image understanding (EO-IU) subsystem. The EO-IU subsystem is automatically generating ESA Level 2 products (scene classification map, up to basic land cover units) from optical satellite data. The EO-SQ subsystem comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) and an array database embedded in a client server model. In the array database, all EO images are stored as a space-time data cube together with their ...
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  • Automated near real-time earth observation level 2 product generation for semantic querying

    • Authors: Baraldi, A. de;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2016)

  • Existing Earth observation (EO) content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems support human-machine interaction through queries by metadata text information, image-wide summary statistics or either image, object or multi-object examples. No semantic CBIR (SCBIR) system in operating mode has ever been developed by the remote sensing (RS) community. At the same time, no EO dataderived Level 2 prototype product has ever been generated systematically at the ground segment, in contrast with the visionary goal of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) implementation plan for years 2005-2015. Typical EO Level 2 products include: (i) a multi-spectral (MS) image corrected for at...
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  • Earth observation as a tool for tracking progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

    • Authors: O'Connor, Brian;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2015)

  • Biodiversity is continuing to decline. This crisis has been recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), whose members have set ambitious targets to avert ongoing declines in the state of biodiversity by 2020. These so called “Aichi Biodiversity Targets” (ABTs) are organized around five strategic goals, with indicators showing the level of progress made towards each target. Currently, measurements of many ABT indicators are not available. The Essential Biodiversity Variable (EBV) framework, developed by the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), attempts to form a coherent and harmonised set of observations of biodiversity. In this paper...
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  • EOPOWER : conference and final meeting : work package 2:Powerpoint

    • Authors: Nijmeijer, R.G. ; Looijen, J.M.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2016)

  • Work package 2: capacity building; Target groups; How; Deliverables ITC; Task 2.20 conceptual framework for certification; Task 2.31 course design per SBA; Task 2.10 eight sets of training material for the GEO SBA’s.
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  • Remote Sensing for Biodiversity

    • Authors: Skidmore, A.K.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2017)

  • Remote sensing (RS)—taking images or other measurements of Earth from above—provides a unique perspective on what is happening on the Earth and thus plays a special role in biodiversity and conservation applications. The periodic repeat coverage of satellite-based RS is particularly useful for monitoring change and so is essential for understanding trends, and also provides key input into assessments, international agreements, and conservation management. Historically, RS data have often been expensive and hard to use, but changes over the last decade have resulted in massive amounts of global data being available at no cost, as well as significant (if not yet complete) simplification...