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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
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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). (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
WGs meeting in Skopje
BigSkyEarth COST Action organizes its next WGs meeting in Skopje, fYR Macedonia, on July 13-14, 2018, at the Faculty of Computer Science and Enginee¸ring (FCSE), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. The meeting aims and facilitating joint research efforts and finalizing the work on BigSkyEarth book. The workshop will be an opportunity to discuss possibilities for the continuation of BigSkyEarth network collaboration after the end of COST funding. (more…)
The last call for Conference Grant Applications
The is the last call for Conference Grants that are aimed at supporting PhD students and ECI researchers from Participating ITC to attend international science and technology related conferences not specifically organised by the COST Action. NOTE: The call is closed as of October 10, 2018.
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 (more…)
Presentations from the BigSkyEarth workshop
BigSkyEarth COST Action organized its third workshop, with the topic “Big Data processing in the forthcoming era of ultra-high resolutions“, in Novi Sad, Serbia, on February 26-27, 2018. The workshop participants discussed the challenges that arise with the expansion of remote sensing market using UAVs and with the expansion of astronomical sky surveys and airborne astronomy. Here you can find some of the presentations given at the workshop. (more…)
Report from the third edition of the Training School
The Training School gathered 33 attendees from 17 countries all over Europe for hands-on training on GPU-centric data analytics. The attendants at all levels from both research and industrial backgrounds have once again been the crucial factor in the success of the School.
Since the identified challenges are similar in astronomy and Earth Observation, with signal processing, statistics, machine learning, and computer science as the common denominator, the Training School has aimed at boosting the communication within and between disciplines and applications areas, by propagating and advancing relevant common solutions developed within academic, applied research and industrial environments.
The goal has been to share valuable know-how encompassing machine learning, large scale simulation, scalable visualization and specific efforts in science and technology.
The key aspect has been to address all these topics in synergy, setting them up in a logical interdisciplinary framework bridging the diverse areas addressed by the school.
The participants were selected for the school based on the quality and relevance of the research project descriptions provided as part of their application procedures. Their backgrounds ranged from astronomy — around 50% — to remote sensing — 30% — and computer science 20%. The institutions they work for go from observatories to startup companies. About 20% were women, again from both astronomical and Earth observation backgrounds.
Lessons were given on topics ranging from scalable machine learning algorithms to GPU code optimization and visualization.
Speakers included Egon Pavlica (University of Nova Gorica, SL), Marc Masana (Universidad Autonomica de Barcelona, ES), Tibor Korzjak from Hipersfera (Hipersfera, HR), Esteban Garcia (Universidad Europea de Madrid, ES), Simon Grimm (University of Bern, CH), Antonio Falcao (Uninova, PT) and Javad Zabakhsh (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, AT), Andoni Beristain, Nerea Aranjuelo, Marco Quartulli and Ramon Moreno (Vicomtech, ES).
The material for the course — presentations and hands-on work notebooks by the speakers and the material being produced by the participant groups — is in the process of being published online.
