Sentinel Big Data Science Cluster

01.08.2015 - 31.12.2018
Forschungsförderungsprojekt

Copernicus - the European earth observation (EO) program - started in 2014 when Sentinel-1a, the first from a series of exceptional satellites, was launched. With an 11 billion Euros budget, it is one of the biggest exploration programmes of mankind ever, providing data for environmental protection, urban planning, agriculture, forestry and water economy, and civil protection. With Copernicus Europe will take the worldwide lead in EO. According to the European Commission it will create 40.000 jobs in Europe. Citing PricewaterhouseCoopers, ´Each Euro invested in Copernicus brings 10 Euro added value´.

Due to the advanced sensing concepts and outstanding spatio-temporal sampling characteristics, the Sentinels will collect more and better data than ever before. They will make an important contribution to environmental and socio-economic sciences. Exploiting their data is challenging due to (1) storing, transferring and processing such Big Data, and (2) the lack of adequate processing algorithms, optimised and exploited jointly by different disciplines.

EODC was founded as private-public partnership to tackle these challenges. However, its current storing and processing capacity is yet insufficient. A Shared Research Facility (SRF) on top of the existing EODC infrastructure could address these limitations. With a 50% funding of the Vienna Business Agency for the proposed 2.1M€, a unique Big Data processing facility can be built in Vienna, accessible for industry, science, education and start-ups. Funding of an SRF that supports high-level research in the field of managing our environment, understanding the effects of climate change, and ensuring civil and food security promotes a cutting-edge image of Vienna on to the global stage.

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Förderungmittel

  • Vereine, Stiftungen, Preise Fördergeber Typ Vereine, Stiftungen, Preise Ausschreibungskennung Call Shared Research Facilities 2015 Spezifisches Programm Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Climate Neutral, Renewable and Conventional Energy Supply Systems: 100%

Schlagwörter

DeutschEnglisch
big databig data
Sentinel-Satellitensentinel satellites
SpeicherStorage
ErdbeobachtungEarth Observation
ErdbeobachtungsdatenzentrumEarth Observation Data Centre

Externe Partner_innen

  • EODC Earth Observation Data Centre Water Resources Monitoring GmbH
  • Catalysts GmbH

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