Sergio Albani (SatCen) presentation for Big Data in Secure Societies Workshop - Brussels, 18th October 2016 -

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Big Data pilots for Secure Societies
Sergio Albani
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RTDI activities at SatCen
• Research, Technology Development and Innovation
- Fostering cooperation with EC, EU entities and key organisations
in Space such as ESA and GEO
- Implementing new solutions with regard to the whole data lifecycle
on issues related to Big Data and Cloud Computing
EVER-EST
NextGEOSS

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• Integrating Big Data, software &
communities for addressing Europe’s
Societal Challenges
- Health, Food, Energy, Transport, Climate,
Social Sciences, Secure Societies
• BigDataEurope main activities:
- Gathering user requirements
- Developing a Big Data platform
- Implementing relevant pilots
• SatCen is:
- Building a Secure Societies community
- Eliciting Big Data requirements
- Implementing a Space and Security pilot
The BigDataEurope Project

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Stakeholders interviews• Building of a Secure Societies Community with an interest in
the Big Data issue
• Four types of customized questionnaires submitted
- Real use cases, data stories and user needs collected
- Inputs analyzed looking for commonalities amongst users
• 1st Workshop held in Brussels on September 2015 at SOST
• Formalized set of user requirements for the design of the
system and the pilot deployment defined
Collection of User Requirements

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• Data Chain
- To exploit data coming from space (using open data and tools)
- To integrate satellite, geospatial and other data
- To develop automatic tools for the whole data chain management
- Possible applications of Big Data should be mainly related to
access, archiving, analysis, visualization and dissemination
• Platform Characteristics
- Reliable, stable, efficient, time reducing, economically convenient,
open source-based, user-friendly, multi-lingual and interoperable
- Security compliant, geospatial oriented, Platform as a Service
(PaaS), single access, customizable and extensible
User Requirements in Secure Societies

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Dissemination Activities
• Technical Webinars
- To present inputs from experts responsible for the architecture, the
implementation and the upcoming pilots roll-out
• Secure Societies Hangouts
- To give details on the use of Big Data in the Security domain
• Conferences
- 2nd Big Data from Space Conference (15-17 March 2016)
- Living Planet Symposium (9-13 May 2016)
- EO Open Science Conference (12-14 September 2016)
- SatCen Expert User Fora

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The BigDataEurope SC7 Pilot
Remote Sensing Big Data Platform Social Sensing
Change Detection Workflow
Event Detection Workflow

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• European Virtual Environment for
Research – Earth Science Themes
- A VRE is a distributed collaborative system
facilitating access, processing and sharing
of data, algorithms and results
• EVER-EST main activities:
- Establish a VRE for Earth Science
- Validate the VRE with 4 main VRCs
- Implement the use of ROs in ES
• SatCen is:
- Representing the Land Monitoring VRC
- Eliciting requirements for the VRE
- Implementing a Space and Security pilot
The EVER-EST Project

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The EVER-EST LaMo Pilot
Binary Map (changes / no changes)
Classified Map (e.g. land cover)

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• Next Generation GEOSS for
Innovation & Business
- The Group on Earth Observations is
building the Global Earth Observation
System of Systems
• NextGEOSS main activities:
- Engaging EO and related communities
- Advocating GEOSS
- Delivering a DH for EO data exploitation
• SatCen will be:
- Engaging with data providers
- Liaising with GEO communities/activities
- Implementing a Space and Security pilot
The NextGEOSS Project
NextGEOSS

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Big Data General User Scenario
Data Access
Data Selection
Data Processing
Data Visualization
Data Analytics

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Preliminary Results and Conclusions
• Technical solutions for Big Data exploitation
- System to search, download, pre-process and compare images
- Social media and news monitoring by a crawling system
- Web-GIS client to properly visualise information and results
- Solutions to guarantee a better access to open data
- Downloaded images storage in a distributed way
- Scalability improved with tile-based processing approaches
• Big Data and Cloud Computing based solutions can improve
the capabilities of the Space and Security community
- Foster use of open source technologies and of free/open datasets
- Cooperation with ESA, EC and EU entities to be furthered
- Results to be exploited in GEO (e.g. through NextGEOSS)

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Sergio Albani
Responsible for RTDI
sergio.albani@satcen.europa.eu
Thank You!