The first call for Short Term Scientific Missions

The first call for Short Term Scientific Missions

This is the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) within BigSkyEarth COST Action.
Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration between researchers. A STSM should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and/or methods not available in their own institutions/organisations.
STSM applicants must be engaged in an official research programme as a PhD Student or postdoctoral fellow or can be employed by, or affiliated to, an Institution or legal entity which has within its remit a clear association with performing research. The institutions/organisations where applicants pursue their main strand of research are considered as Home institutions. The Host institution is the institution/organisation that will host the successful applicant.

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MC and WG Meetings Held in Belgrade

MC and WG Meetings Held in Belgrade

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, was the venue of BigSkyEarth’s meetings on March 30-31, 2015. The meetings were held by the Action’s Management Committee and all four Working Groups.

The meetings set the stage for upcoming Action’s activities. More information and photos are available at http://servo.aob.rs/big_sky_earth/

A group photo is available HERE.

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About Us

About Us

The challenges related to data volume, variety and velocity are similar in astronomy and Earth observations, with computer science as the common denominator. The BIG SKY EARTH Action aims at boosting the communication within and between disciplines by identifying and clustering relevant common solutions developed within research and industrial environments. These solutions can be aided by methodologies and tools for large distributed data management and processing, developed by computer scientists in academia or industry.For example, metadata is extensively exploited in multimedia Digital Asset Management to provide effective access to deep repositories of audio-visual content. This approach can contribute a valuable know-how to natural scientists working with similar type of data structures in large databases. Visual Analytics is another example of a growing field in computer science, with interesting implications for astronomy and Earth observation that inherently depend on visual datasets.

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