Our book is out: Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation

Our COST Action had a unique challenge to bring together people form astronomy and Earth observation and facilitate communication between these two disciplines. One of the outcomes of this Action is the book that is now out: Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation.

Thanks to the hard work of the editors, Petr Skoda and Fathalrahman Adam, as well as of more than 50 authors who contributed to the book chapters, we have now the first extensive book on the transdisciplinary field of AstroGeoInformatics published by Elsevier.

The book is available at: https://www.elsevier.com/books/knowledge-discovery-in-big-data-from-astronomy-and-earth-observation/skoda/978-0-12-819154-5

Presentations from the BigSkyEarth Conference: AstroGeoInformatics

BigSkyEarth organized its final conference AstroGeoInformatics – Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation in Tenerife, Spain, on December 17-19, 2018. The conference was hosted by Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and Universidad de La Laguna. The BigSkyEarth book of the same topic was presented at the conference and will bi published in 2019. Conference proceedings are published as a community on zenodo.org (LINK).

The final BigSkyEarth Training School finished

BigSkyEarth organized its final Training School, focused on Big Data in simulations and observations. It took place at the Tuorla observatory, the University of Turku, on Nov. 26 – Dec.1, 2018. This was the final Training School of the BigSkyEarth COST Action.

Apply to the BigSkyEarth Training School: Big Data in Simulations and Observations

BigSkyEarth is organizing its final Training School, focused on Big Data in simulations and observations. It will take place at the Tuorla observatory, the University of Turku, on Nov. 26 – Dec.1, 2018. Key practitioners from the astronomy, the Earth observation and the computer science domains will be participating in the School contributing the perspectives of both the academic and the industrial sector. Grants will be made available by the Action for a number of participants. The procedure for applying and for the selection of participants is described below.

BigSkyEarth Conference: AstroGeoInformatics

BigSkyEarth is organizing the conference AstroGeoInformatics – Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation in Tenerife, Spain, on December 17-19, 2018. The conference is hosted by Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and Universidad de La Laguna. The BigSkyEarth book of the same topic will be presented at the conference! Conference contributions will be published as proceedings on zenodo.org.

The last call for Short Term Scientific Missions

This is the last 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.

NOTE: The call is closed as of October 10, 2018