Fernando Davara

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ESA EUSC CONFERENCE 2004

• THEORY and APPLICATIONS
• of KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN
• IMAGE INFORMATION MINING,
• with focus on EO

Fernando Davara Director EUSC
Madrid, 17 March 2004
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EUSC
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Introduction
COUNCIL JOINT ACTION (20 JUL 2001)
(2001/555/CFSP) on the establishment of a
European Union Satellite Centre
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Mission of the EU SatCen
COUNCIL JOINT ACTION (20 JUL 2001)
To support the decision-making of the Union in
the context of the CFSP, in particular of the
ESDP, by providing material resulting from the
analysis of satellite imagery and collateral
data, including aerial imagery as appropriate.
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Other Topics of Joint Action

• Training of personnel
• Overall training (all staff)
• Training for image analysts
• Remote sensing
• Specialised s/w tools
• Seminars/conferences
• Courses/workshops
• Visits to areas of interest

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Other Topics of Joint Action

• Research and development projects
• Products technologies
• DGI
• GIS
• Electronic Dossiers, ..
• Tools for image analysts
• Others activities
• Survey of the satellite imagery market
• New requirements
• Study of European Space programmes (EO, GMES,
  Galileo, ..)

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Other Topics of Joint Action

• Collaboration with Community, national and
  international institutions in the field of space
• Close cooperation and information exchange with
  Community space-related services, in particular
  with JRC
• It should be coherent with the European Strategy
  for Space endorsed by the Council on 16 November
  2000

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EUSC

• In order to fulfill our mission we need
• To collect and process data
• To analyse information
• To delivery information on time adequate
• ....

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EUSC

• But today we have needs of
• Data
• Information

• and also that concerns ...
• Knowledge

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Knowledge

• Knowledge is the integration of
• ideas,
• intellectual capital
• experience
• skill
• lessons learned
• ......

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Knowledge

• The Knowledge allow us to generate useful
  information from available data. This include
• Efficiency to collect and process the
  appropriate data
• .... at the appropriate time
• Efficiency to implement a solution or to reach an
  understanding
• .... of a particular problem

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EUSC

• This imply new challenges
• Access to huge amount of information
• Management of information
• Management of Knowledge
• Sharing Knowledge
• ....

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EUSC

• We need tools enable to manage data and
  information, but also
• To document and structure,
• To store and retrieve,
• To transfer and delivery
• To share, ...

Knowledge
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ESA EUSC Conference
KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN IMAGE INFORMATION MINING EARTH
OBSERVATION
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Objectives

• Review the state of the art of technology and
  identify RD requirementes in the following
  fields of the EO domain
• Knowledge driven image information mining
• Knowledge sharing and management
• Multidomain, multidimensional semantic
  information indexing and retrieval
• Exploratory image information extraction
• Multidimensional data base systems
• ...

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ESA EUSC CONFERENCE 2004

• THEORY and APPLICATIONS
• of KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN
• IMAGE INFORMATION MINING,
• with focus on EO

Fernando Davara Director EUSC
Madrid, 17 March 2004