Opening up Earth Observation Data using Scientific Database, Semantic Web and Linked Data Technologies


16.07.2013
Speaker : Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Date : 16.07.2013
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes", Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
Host : Yannis Tzitzikas
Abstract:

We show how technologies from scientific databases, semantic web and
linked geospatial data can unlock the potential of Earth Observation
data by presenting a fire monitoring application that we developed in
project TELEIOS. This application is currently operational in the
National Observatory of Athens, and it has been used by civil protection
agencies in Greece during the fires of the Summer 2013. TELEIOS is a
recent European project that studies techniques and tools for scalable
access to Big Earth Observation data and the development of related
systems and applications.

Bio:

Manolis Koubarakis is a Professor in the Dept. of Informatics and
Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He
has published more than 120 papers that have been widely cited in the
areas of Artificial Intelligence (especially Knowledge Representation),
Databases, Semantic Web and Linked Data. His research has been
financially supported by the European Commission, the Greek General
Secretariat for Research and Technology and industry sources (Microsoft
Research and British Telecommunications). He is currently co-ordinating
project TELEIOS (http://www.earthobservatory.eu/) which is building a
Virtual Earth Observatory using a combination of technologies based on
Linked Data, Semantic Web (geospatial extensions of RDF and SPARQL) and
Databases (array extensions of SQL). He also participates in Optique
(http://www.optique-project.eu/), a recent European effort in the area
of Big Data with application scenarios from the energy sector (Statoil
and Siemens).