Side Events
The phi-week will have a suite of events and workshops including the following below. If you are interested in participating pls contact eoopenscience@esa.int
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Φ-week Startup Bootcamp [Camp] (11-13 Nov 2018) [http://phiweekbootcamp.space] bringing together EO experts, non-space corporates, tech leaders, with "aspiring" entrepreneurs for an intensive 3-days event where participants will develop ideas for their own start-up by using design thinking methods. An expert jury will decide on 13 Nov, which start-up ideas, products and business models are the most promising. Organiser: Design and Data.
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Women@Phiweek Salon. Diversity in science and high-tech is a key issue. This salon will address this issue and highlight how, despite being highly under-represented in the field, women are beating the odds. In an informal atmosphere with refreshment, this Salon will highlight how women are inspiring the Space field and discuss how to stimulate more diversity in ESA.
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FDL Europe ESA AI4EO Accelerator. FDL Europe [fdleurope.org] is an AI research accelerator established by ESA in partnership with Catapult and Uni Oxford, to apply AI technologies to challenges in space exploration for the benefit of all humankind. The program is a public / private partnership, where academia and commercial partners bring expertise and the vast compute resources necessary for rapid experimentation and iteration in data intensive areas. FDL’s special sauce is its interdisciplinary research teams, which are composed of subject specialists from the space sciences and specialists from the data sciences at the Phd or post doc level. This session will present the result of the first 8-week sprint on AI4EO held during summer to address disaster management from space with AI.
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AI R&I workshop with the scientific and startup community exploring the development of the research agenda to apply the latest techniques of AI and computer vision to EO applications.
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Hands-on training sessions on how to use open tools to access, process and visualise EO data. A laptop and basic knowledge of JavaScript are required.
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Earth System Data Lab (ESDL). ESDL offers a multi-variate, analysis ready data set of essential Earth System variables on a common grid and sharing a common data model. Most variables have been derived from Earth Observation products, e.g. the included Essential Climate Variables from ESA's CCI projects, but also model products have been considered where sensible. Furthermore, ESDL provides a service enabling scientific users to readily access and exploit numerous variables in a virtual laboratory, thus foregoing lengthy downloads, tedious data handling and transformations, and the provision of adequate computation infrastructure. The project team will introduce the ESDL approach and showcase the broad capabilities of the virtual laboratory for data analysis and visualisation in a 90-minutes presentation, repeated at three different times of the day. Between presentations, the team will support interested visitors with making their first steps in the ESDL. Organisers: Hans Permana (Brockman Consult), Miguel Machecha (MPI), Fabian Gans (MPI).
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ESA-NASA WorldWind Visualisation Tool. The Web WorldWind development team invites you to a hacking session that will get you started with visualising your EO data and service outputs on a 3D virtual Earth thus putting them in context and making them easily explorable. Organisers: Patrick Hogan, Olivier Barois (ESA).
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EOClimLab Design Thinking Workshop with Lego Serious Play®. Lego Serious Play® is hands and mind ac va ng, a thought-provoking methodology that engages participants in serious discussions through playful techniques - building 3D models of your thoughts with Lego®. The workshop is built on a tried and tested process of building, sharing and reflec ng, crea ng an equal playing, thinking, sharing and learning ground for all participants.
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Delay Doppler Altimetry Studio. This session will explore the technique of Delay Doppler altimetry introducing the fun of altimetry processing to young researchers, maybe not experts in programming or altimeter processing, but interested in learning some new skills. Hackhathon organised by Mònica Roca (isardSAT), Norman Fomferra and Hans Permana (Brockmann Consult) , David Cotton (SatOC).
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Linked-Open EO Data (LOD) and Distributed EO value-chains. This session will explore how to use Distributed data access in Web-semantically enriched processing workflows [https://analytics.ramani.ujuizi.com] to facilitate access and exploitation of multivariate EO data sets and publish results to native mobiel and web applications. Organisers: Valentijn Venus (RAMANI B.V.), Sam Ubels (RAMANI B.V.)
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CREODIAS demo. This workshop will demonstrate how to develop Copernicus-based geo-analytical services in CREODIAS with Hexagon Smart M.App technology. CREODIAS is a large cloud-based IT infrastructure, provided by a polish consortium led by Creotech Instruments, optimized to browse, search, deliver and process Copernicus data and notably a large amounts of EO data. Hexagon’s M.App Enterprise simplify the creation of innovative applications on top of Copernicus data, thanks to the user-friendly and low-code development environment. This workshop will show how to build scalable and lightweight vertical applications that applies sophisticated geospatial analytics and tailored workflows to multi-source contents, within an intuitive and dynamic user experience. Organiser: Planetek Italia.
- Launcher side event. This event will give an overview of cost-effective launch solutions specifically designed to serve the very dynamic small satellite “new space” market.Thanks to the standardized Small Spacecraft Mission Services (SSMS) on the light-weight launch vehicle Vega, which has imposed itself as the world most reliable launcher in its category, as well as the new Multi Launch Service (MLS) solution that will equip the next-generation heavy launcher Ariane 6, launching small satellites into space with Arianespace has become more reliable and affordable than ever.
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Earth System Data Lab (ESDL). ESDL offers a multi-variate, analysis ready data set of essential Earth System variables on a common grid and sharing a common data model. Most variables have been derived from Earth Observation products, e.g. the included Essential Climate Variables from ESA's CCI projects, but also model products have been considered where sensible. Furthermore, ESDL provides a service enabling scientific users to readily access and exploit numerous variables in a virtual laboratory, thus foregoing lengthy downloads, tedious data handling and transformations, and the provision of adequate computation infrastructure. The project team will introduce the ESDL approach and showcase the broad capabilities of the virtual laboratory for data analysis and visualisation in a 90-minutes presentation, repeated at three different times of the day. Between presentations, the team will support interested visitors with making their first steps in the ESDL. Organisers: Hans Permana (Brockman Consult), Miguel Machecha (MPI), Fabian Gans (MPI).
