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Virtual Observatory Infrastructure for Earth Observation Data

Project acronym: TELEIOS Grant agreement no: FP7 - 257662

Motivation

• Satellite Earth Observation facts:
• Existing satellites send to earth

around 100GB per day.

• The amount of data available (petabytes)
• utstrips the human intelligence available

to exploit it.

• Opportunity/Challenge: Enable the use of EO data by

an even larger group of applications by maximizing the automation of relevant processes.

• Our response: TELEIOS Project

Project summary

• Design and implement a Virtual Observatory

infrastructure for EO data (an Earth Observatory).

• Demonstrate the TELEIOS infrastructure in two use

cases:

• Use Case I: A Virtual Observatory

for TerraSAR-X data.

• Use Case II: Real-time fire monitoring

based on continuous acquisitions of EO images and geospatial data.

Project overview

36 month work programme structured into:

• 10 work packages:
• WP1-WP5: Research and software development
• WP6-WP8: Use cases and involving the user community
• WP9: Management
• WP10: Dissemination
• 4 phases:
• Phase I: User requirements
• Phase II: Foundational research on data models and languages
• Phase III: First version of the TELEIOS infrastructure
• Phase IV: Final version and evaluation of the TELEIOS

infrastructure

Technical innovation and objectives

• Advancing the state of the art in satellite image

mining, scientific databases, GIS, and Semantic Web technologies!

Technical innovation and objectives

• To define a data model and query language for EO images based on

the concept of a multidimensional array (WP2).

• To develop a scalable, robust, and adaptive environment for know-

ledge discovery from EO images and geospatial data sets (WP3).

• To define a semantics-based data model and language for

specifying and querying EO image annotations capturing not just image metadata but also the knowledge discovered from the images (WP2).

• To develop query processing and optimization techniques for

queries over multidimensional arrays and EO image annotations and implement them on top of the MonetDB system (WP4, WP5).

• To integrate all the developed software components into the

TELEIOS infrastructure (WP1).

• To demonstrate the TELEIOS infrastructure in two use cases (WP6,

WP7).

Dissemination

• EO scientist community (workshops, continuous evaluation of

TELEIOS technologies)

• Publications
• Demos
• Project Web site (http://www.earthobservatory.eu/)
• Establishment of close links with other FP7 projects:
• SemsorGrid4Env
• GENESIS, GS-SOIL, NatureSDI+, GIGAS
• GMES/SAFER
• LOD2 and PlanetData
• GENESI-DEC
• Focused research workshops
• Interaction with standard bodies (W3C, OGC)

Consortium

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten

Forschung e. V. (Fraunhofer)

• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)
• Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
• National Observatory of Athens (NOA)
• Advanced Computer Systems (ACS)

Contact details

Manolis Koubarakis – Project Coordinator koubarak at di.uoa.gr +30 210 727 5213 http://www.earthobservatory.eu/