NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS)
Lead Research Organisation:
King's College London
Department Name: NCEO Kings
Abstract
[Note, NEODAAS were advised to merely cut and paste from the case for support into this section]
The vision for NEODAAS is to provide NERC and UKRI academic communities with flexible, responsive and innovative national capability in Earth Observation data, services and advice, which addresses key strategic research and innovation priorities and contributes to understanding of important environmental issues affecting the UK.
Earth Observation (EO) is crucial for observing Earth system processes in near-real time (NRT) at synoptic scales and over long periods as the data records extend in time. The European Copernicus programme, in particular, is enabling significant advances in the field through construction of an operational system of satellite-based sensors, with new and improved capabilities. Copernicus benefits the science of the expert EO community, and has even greater potential for non EO experts who can use EO derived data and information for the first time.
There is, thus, increasing demand for EO data and services, but clearly it is inefficient for all grant-holders to be generating their own EO data, while many non-EO experts do not have the skill base to do their own processing. Hence, the need for NEODAAS at Plymouth was confirmed by the NERC Facilities Evaluation Panel. Surveys by NERC Head Office and NCEO show strong demand for a value for money EO service which has demonstrably resulted in high quality science: between 2013/14 and 2017/18, NEODAAS supported 321 ISI-refereed publications (with >10k citations to all NEODAAS papers).
NEODAAS services include: EO products and information including production of analysis-ready data products to meet particular UK needs (such as UK projections or bespoke algorithms); rapid-response with very fast delivery times; provision of data in formats that can be easily used by non-experts; operationalisation of algorithms produced by NERC-funded research, for wider impact in the community; and provision of advice and training in the sources and best practice in EO. NEODAAS offers a centralised service from one location, thus avoiding duplication, and providing critical mass.
NEODAAS is currently a dual node facility based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and the University of Dundee. The recommissioned service will continue work performed at PML, and will expand this by taking on certain of the work undertaken by Dundee - namely the collection of level 1 data for NRT data processing. This will be done via web/ftp downloads and PML-based EUMETCast data reception.
NEODAAS will provide flexibility to meet the wide range of UK community needs, and considerable leverage in terms of exploiting PML R&D outcomes, local expertise and existing computing and processing systems. NEODAAS will support Excellent Science funded through NERC grants, NERC Centre/Survey NC, Fellowships, Doctoral Training Partnerships or Centres for Doctoral Training, direct-access proposals as well as UKRI funding opportunities, such as the GCRF and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).
The end-user community and the corresponding services may be split into two groups or strands:
Strand 1) Services to non-EO experts who wish to make use of EO datasets and information but do not wish, or are not able to spend extensive time learning how to do data processing. These services support the wider user community, numbering potentially many 1000's, many of whom may not even be aware of it (e.g. non-EO scientists on research cruises guided by NEODAAS).
Strand 2) Services to the EO Community who have EO expertise, but want specialist aid such as algorithm implementation, e.g. arising from NCEO research, in a NRT framework or would like to include their algorithms in the NEODAAS processing chain. The potential number of users is smaller, typically 100's, but the services may be more complex and bespoke in nature than those in Strand 1.
The vision for NEODAAS is to provide NERC and UKRI academic communities with flexible, responsive and innovative national capability in Earth Observation data, services and advice, which addresses key strategic research and innovation priorities and contributes to understanding of important environmental issues affecting the UK.
Earth Observation (EO) is crucial for observing Earth system processes in near-real time (NRT) at synoptic scales and over long periods as the data records extend in time. The European Copernicus programme, in particular, is enabling significant advances in the field through construction of an operational system of satellite-based sensors, with new and improved capabilities. Copernicus benefits the science of the expert EO community, and has even greater potential for non EO experts who can use EO derived data and information for the first time.
There is, thus, increasing demand for EO data and services, but clearly it is inefficient for all grant-holders to be generating their own EO data, while many non-EO experts do not have the skill base to do their own processing. Hence, the need for NEODAAS at Plymouth was confirmed by the NERC Facilities Evaluation Panel. Surveys by NERC Head Office and NCEO show strong demand for a value for money EO service which has demonstrably resulted in high quality science: between 2013/14 and 2017/18, NEODAAS supported 321 ISI-refereed publications (with >10k citations to all NEODAAS papers).
NEODAAS services include: EO products and information including production of analysis-ready data products to meet particular UK needs (such as UK projections or bespoke algorithms); rapid-response with very fast delivery times; provision of data in formats that can be easily used by non-experts; operationalisation of algorithms produced by NERC-funded research, for wider impact in the community; and provision of advice and training in the sources and best practice in EO. NEODAAS offers a centralised service from one location, thus avoiding duplication, and providing critical mass.
NEODAAS is currently a dual node facility based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and the University of Dundee. The recommissioned service will continue work performed at PML, and will expand this by taking on certain of the work undertaken by Dundee - namely the collection of level 1 data for NRT data processing. This will be done via web/ftp downloads and PML-based EUMETCast data reception.
NEODAAS will provide flexibility to meet the wide range of UK community needs, and considerable leverage in terms of exploiting PML R&D outcomes, local expertise and existing computing and processing systems. NEODAAS will support Excellent Science funded through NERC grants, NERC Centre/Survey NC, Fellowships, Doctoral Training Partnerships or Centres for Doctoral Training, direct-access proposals as well as UKRI funding opportunities, such as the GCRF and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).
The end-user community and the corresponding services may be split into two groups or strands:
Strand 1) Services to non-EO experts who wish to make use of EO datasets and information but do not wish, or are not able to spend extensive time learning how to do data processing. These services support the wider user community, numbering potentially many 1000's, many of whom may not even be aware of it (e.g. non-EO scientists on research cruises guided by NEODAAS).
Strand 2) Services to the EO Community who have EO expertise, but want specialist aid such as algorithm implementation, e.g. arising from NCEO research, in a NRT framework or would like to include their algorithms in the NEODAAS processing chain. The potential number of users is smaller, typically 100's, but the services may be more complex and bespoke in nature than those in Strand 1.
Publications
Alikas K
(2020)
Comparison of Above-Water Seabird and TriOS Radiometers along an Atlantic Meridional Transect
in Remote Sensing
Aufaristama M
(2019)
The 2014-2015 Lava Flow Field at Holuhraun, Iceland: Using Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Discriminating the Lava Surface
in Remote Sensing
Azcárate-García T
(2022)
Seasonal plant development and meadow structure of Irish and southern Spanish seagrass populations
in Aquatic Botany
Basedow SL
(2019)
Remote sensing of zooplankton swarms.
in Scientific reports
Bauer H
(2020)
Multi-nested WRF simulations for studying planetary boundary layer processes on the turbulence-permitting scale in a realistic mesoscale environment
in Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
Beca-Carretero P
(2019)
Seasonal and inter-annual variability of net primary production in the NW Iberian margin (1998-2016) in relation to wind stress and sea surface temperature
in Progress in Oceanography
Beese L
(2022)
Using repeat airborne LiDAR to map the growth of individual oil palms in Malaysian Borneo during the 2015-16 El Niño
in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Belcher A
(2021)
Experimental determination of reflectance spectra of Antarctic krill ( Euphausia superba ) in the Scotia Sea
in Antarctic Science
Biermann L
(2020)
Finding Plastic Patches in Coastal Waters using Optical Satellite Data.
in Scientific reports
| Description | The key finding from the activities of NEODAAS are the publications deriving from NEODAAS support. MARINE & TERRESTRIAL FRESHWATER The examples below are for the marine and terrestrial freshwater science sectors and EXCLUDE any NEODAAS work in support of NERC grants, since we believe this would be reported by the grant-holder. Hence, the key findings below represent work done through "direct access" to the facility. NEODAAS data were used in a preliminary attempt to find a water quality algorithms that can be applied to NASA MODIS data in a variety of lakes in Europe. NEODAAS sea-surface temperature (SST) and net primary production data were used as environmental data to investigate sexual segregation in gannets. It was found that sexual segregation is driven largely by habitat segregation between mixed and stratified waters, which in turn results in sex-specific foraging behaviour and dive depths. NEODAAS SST data were used for the Irish Sea as a factor impacting the temporal and spatial variation in size at maturity of the common whelk, one of the most important shellfish fisheries for the United Kingdom. Likewise, NEODAAS provided modelled sea-bed temperature data and surface chl-a data as environmental parameters used in a study to investigate the relative impact of scallop dredging on habitats at the scale of the king scallop fishery in the English Channel, by comparing epifaunal species diversity, composition, and biomass at sites subjected to varying levels of dredge fishing, while accounting for variation in environmental parameters between sites. In situ data on partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) were used to construct multiple linear regressions between pCO2 and air-se CO2 fluxes and environmental variables (including NEODAAS data). These were then applied to long time series of NEODAAS SST and chl-a data to investigate inter-annual variability resulting in significant differences in the intensity and/or direction of annual fluxes. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE The examples below are for the atmospheric science sector and EXCLUDE any NEODAAS work in support of NERC grants, since we are told that this should be reported by the grant-holder. Hence, the key findings below represent work done through "direct access" to the facility only. NEODAAS data supported a project that demonstrated the use of cluster analysis for airstream classification. The particular case used was an extratropical cyclone (Friedhelm, 2011), but the method can also be applied to other situations. NEODAAS imagery was used to identify the development of airstreams and front locations in the system. Also linked to extratropical cyclones was a study of the 'St Jude's Day' windstorm (2013) as it travelled across southern England. This showed how evaporating showers played a role in transferring sting-jet wind momentum to the surface. It was also noted that infrared satellite imagery can indicate where these processes may occur as illustrated by NEODAAS imagery of the event. Our data supported a study of subtropical cyclones (STCs) in the NE Atlantic that aimed to identify common features and assist forecasting. These were found to be a special case of N Atlantic STC with similarities to extratropical cyclones and tending to resemble those in the S Atlantic, whereas NW Atlantic STCs are more similar to tropical cyclones. NEODAAS image sequences were used in a detailed analysis of a particular STC case to better interpret the general results. NEODAAS data were again used in studies of high-latitude severe weather, such as polar lows. One of these looked at the Barents Sea during winter. The results suggested that marine cold air outbreaks are the most important factor in the region for extreme winds on a small spatial scale, and this information may be used to supplement model data and improve forecasts. Another supported paper presented a 14-winter climatology (1995-2009) of Nordic and Barents seas polar lows, based for the first time on passive microwave satellite data. Among the findings, the 637 events identified was greater than for earlier studies using infrared imagery, showing that microwave data provide an opportunity to detect these systems when they are masked by higher level clouds. NEODAAS AVHRR imagery was used to check for cloud signatures for each detected polar low. In a separate study, another 14-winter (1999-2013) climatic analysis of polar lows was carried out for the Nordic Seas to determine their tracks and attributes, such as duration and lifespan. This was based on NEODAAS AVHRR imagery which was used to track all of the systems. The results confirmed those of previous short-duration/smaller-region studies and also increased knowledge of polar lows in the region. |
| Exploitation Route | Many others are possible through further applications to the facility. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education,Environment |
| Description | NEODAAS creates impact through the activities of its users both academic and through the Pathways to Impact plans for NERC-grant supported work. Academic impact is demonstrated by the ~370 peer-reviewed papers supported since 2010 including support for a cruise used in a Nature paper and a series of cruises used in a Nature Communications paper, both published in 2015. Cumulative impact factors from NEODAAS-supported papers have grown significantly over the review period, for example ~230 in 2015. Economic and societal benefits: NEODAAS data have been used in the proposition and selection of marine protected areas (MPAs), also on the observation and understanding of harmful algal blooms of threat to the aquaculture industry and under investigation in a joint NERC/BBSRC programme. Data are used in support of research into hazardous weather, such as severe dust storms that resulted in respiratory difficulties and transport disruption and in NERC's Storm Risk Mitigation/DIAMET project; into flooding in Europeand into other natural hazards e.g. "Quantifying the uncertainty in natural hazard forecasts", 2012-2016, funded through NERC PURE (Probability, Uncertainty and Risk in the Environment) research programme, grant NE/J017221/1. NEODAAS provides data (via online access and commercial data sales) to overseas institutes, companies (with >180 active commercial users in 14/15) and others that support operational activities. Examples include NRT imagery for charting sea ice around Greenland / Iceland and monitoring volcanic activity (Danish Met. Inst. and U. Iceland), wildfire alerts covering Europe (by CSIR, South Africa), weather and forecast information produced by operations support staff (e.g. for UK MoD, UKMO, Brazilian Air Force and Airbus Flight Test) and free on-line weather services (e.g. Weather Underground, USA). NEODAAS data impact examples are given in the annual reports and on the web site. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Citation in Scientific Reviews for MCCIP Report Card 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | http://www.mccip.org.uk/media/2008/05_stratification_2020.pdf |
| Description | (CERTO) - Copernicus Evolution - Research for Transitional-water Observation |
| Amount | € 2,843,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 870349 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Title | MAGIC |
| Description | Airborne hyperspectral data collected in conjunction with several other European institutes to monitor methane emissions in the arctic. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Not aware of any yet. |
| Title | Shiptracks |
| Description | ACRUISE: deep-learning inferred shiptrack clouds from AQUA MODIS daylight satellite data for 2002-2021 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None known. |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/0d88dc06fd514e8199cdd653f00a7be0 |
| Title | SwathSense |
| Description | Airborne hyperspectral data aiming to investigate the influence on viewing angles on Land Surface Temperature algorithms |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Not aware of any yet. |
| Description | EO Week - UK National Earth Observation Conference 2022, |
| Organisation | National Centre for Earth Observation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 2x Conference Talk Presenting Author, 2x Co-author on conference talk, 1x Special Session Chair - Presenting Author Talk "Deep-learning detection of Harmful Algal Blooms" - Presenting Author Talk "Challenges and Solutions for using Machine Learning with Earth Observation Data" - Talk Co-author "Unlocking the UCL TLS data archive with an automated tree extraction pipeline " - Talk Coauthor "The NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS): An Update on Activities" Special Session Chair "Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation" Contributed to presentation on airborne processing. Staffed the NCEO stall. |
| Collaborator Contribution | 2x Co-author on conference talk. Talk Co-author "Unlocking the UCL TLS data archive with an automated tree extraction pipeline " - Talk Coauthor "The NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS): An Update on Activities" |
| Impact | No outputs known of. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Title | ARSF Scripts (added new script to convert heights between WGS84 elipsoid and Geoid) |
| Description | Various sripts for using, processing or handling NERC-ARF. Latest script was added to help a user convert heights between geoid and elipsoid. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Geoid conversion script implemented in hyperspectral processing chain by PhD student. Other scripts have also been utilised by researchers for their data processing. |
| Title | Geostationary Satellite Animation Viewer |
| Description | The Geostationary Satellite Animation Viewer is a flexible software tool for creating animations from geostationary satellite images through the NEODAAS Dundee website. These may be created for any date range and may be played automatically or manually controlled to allow backwards and forwards animation through image sequences. Multi-channel animations are possible allowing the switching of spectral bands during playing. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | All registered users of the NEODAAS Dundee website now have use of the facilities provided by this new tool. Animations ranging from a single day to months can be easily created from the extensive archive of geostationary satellite images available at Dundee allowing the user to quickly study features of interest. A downloader tool is also provided to allow the images from any animation to be downloaded with ease. |
| URL | http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/animation-viewer-guide.html |
| Title | Global 1km-resolution ocean colour data |
| Description | NEODAAS has developed the capability to map satellite ocean colour data at 1km resolution on a global scale. Previously it has been necessary either to degrade the resolution (unavoidably losing some data) or to map only much smaller areas. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Although computationally intensive for a single processing job, mapping products globally in this way permits efficiencies of scale both in terms of the total amount of processing required and in terms of the complexity of the infrastructure required to support it. This should significantly simplify operations at NEODAAS, increasing reliability and available staff time. |
| Title | IMEC Sentinel Project Code released |
| Description | This project was completed in 2020, as the final project for MSc International Marine Environmental Consultancy at Newcastle University. The purpose of the project was to identify whether satellite derived bathymetry would be able to support the UK legal requirements to monitor habitat H1110 - Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time. It was focused on a specific area of the North Sea. The project was completed with the support of JNCC, who provided access to the ARCSI satellite data. NEODAAS provided the ACOLITE satellite data. The satellite data used is from ESA Sentinel-2 mission, satellite tiles 31UCU, 31UCV, 31UDU, 31UDV, which have been pre-processed using the ACOLITE and ARCSI methods. In-situ data was kindly provided by Cefas from acoustic bathymetric surveys. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | This project has generated a large volume of potentials for development. These may be completed within this project, or branched by JNCC or other interested parties. All known links will be added. |
| URL | https://github.com/GemmaH131/IMECsentinel |
| Title | NEODAAS bulk data downloader |
| Description | This software is an update to the NEODAAS website to permit users to search through available data and download large amounts (up to one month's worth) in one go. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Previously users could download only a single data file at a time, which was a problem if the user was interested in long time periods. We anticipate that this should make NEODAAS data useful to a much wider range of users, though it may take time for this to be realised since it will take a while for potential users to become aware of the opportunity |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/bulk/ |
| Title | Oceansat-2 satellite data pre-processing |
| Description | NEODAAS Dundee has developed software to pre-process raw ocean colour data received from India's Oceansat-2 satellite. This will enable the facility to receive these data in raw form using any of its antennas without the need to purchase ISRO proprietary hardware and without the significant operational limitation of being restricted to using only one antenna. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | As a result of this development NEODAAS Dundee successfully demonstrated capability to receive from Oceansat-2 and an agreement was then concluded with ISRO to purchase proprietary higher-level processing software and data reception/distribution rights. |
| Title | Software to Produce Cruise Support Bulletins |
| Description | Software to generate extract and generate plots from satellite data products which can be sent to research cruises. New software is more flexible then previous system and able to produce better plots with a range of colour scales. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The software was used to provide images to the AMT cruise in 2019, some of these images were used in blog posts. |
| URL | https://amt4oceansatflux.org/News/Starter_for_10_and_the_Eye_of_the_Storm |
| Description | All eyes on earth - Earth Story summer exhibition outreach event at Eden Project, Cornwall, July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Aser Mata and Silvia Pardo took part in the Lab Programme representing NEODAAS. Their team gave a quiz around Earth Observation data and its use for environmental topics. These ideas were linked to the use of drones and aircraft for high resolution data, with a drone displayed alongside visualisations such as the tallest tree in the tropics. Silvia introduced the topic of water quality with a practical sessions using a Secchi-Disk, to give an idea of the uses of in-situ vs satellite data, with ancient techniques, and how these are combined today on research cruises. The Eden Project estimated ~5000 visitors passed through The Lab each day, with at least 8000 people attending during the event dates. The Eden Project has shown interest in future collaborations with PML and NCEO. As an additional impact, a visitor named Kate Crawfurd and her daughter liked the exhibition so much that brought some of the material provided back to their local school in Plymouth. Kate is a painter who used to work at PML as a marine biologist and has been commissioned to paint a mural at the school school. She aims to take this opportunity to mix "Arts and Ocean Colour" - she is planing to paint a sea mural with the children and give an talk about ocean monitoring using Ocean Colour with the help of a Secchi Disk that PML have lend to her school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Announcing the new Satellite Indicators Suite from NEODAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on NEODAAS Website announcing our new Satellite Indicators product. Written by SP, ES, DC + K-M |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/Announcing_the_new_Satellite_Indicators_Suite_from |
| Description | BBC News - Why has the sea off Scotland turned turquoise? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS contributed satellite imagery to news story on BBC News website in response to request via twitter (where image was first posted). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57609040 |
| Description | British Branch meeting of the International Glaciological Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Selms attended the British Branch meeting of the International Glaciological Society on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th September 2019, and represented NEODAAS. Whilst there discussions took place and it was agreed with James Lea of Liverpool that PML would host a PhD student on placement within NEODAAS if the studentship was funded. Also agreed in principle that a PhD student in their group would share some data we need for training and/or validating a machine learning algorithm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CCVS Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Satellite Cal/Val and in-situ measurement experts workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ccvs.eu/events/ccvs-workshop-2022? |
| Description | CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) Working group on Information Systems and Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Member of formal working group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/wgiss/ |
| Description | Cornwall college training Feb 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | DC and LB gave a talk to undergraduate students at Cornwall College on Earth Observation and NEODAAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/Services/Support_and_training |
| Description | Cornwall college training Feb 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | DC and LB gave a talk to undergraduate students at Cornwall College on Earth Observation and NEODAAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/Services/Support_and_training |
| Description | Demonstration of NEODAAS data and GIS Portal at Living Wales Showcase Events |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Living Wales project is a collaboration between research and goverment in Wales led by Aberystwyh University aiming to captures the dynamics of the Welsh landscape through Earth observations. The two events introduced the concepts behind Living Wales and showcased current capability and application in areas ranging from biodiversity and climate resilience to agricultural productivity and health. In total over 50 people attended each event. At both events Dan Clewley from NEODAAS had a large display were people were able to see some of the layers produced by the Living Wales project alongside marine layers (e.g., chlorophyll concentration) produced by NEODAAS. Feedback was very possitive with a number of participants planning to explore the data in their own time. Further plans are being discussed to incorperate the GIS portal and NEODAAS data being produced in near real time within the Living Wales project so they can be made available to government in Wales through this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://epwales.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/living-wales-showcase/ |
| Description | Destriped VIIRS ocean colour products now available through NEODAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on NEODAAS website announcing improved quality VIIRS data. Written by ES, DC + K-M |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/Destriped_VIIRS_ocean_colour_products_now_available_through_NEODAAS |
| Description | EO Implementation Group - Introduction to the PML remote sensing group & NEODAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | DC gave a talk to the EO Implementation group introducing NEODAAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | EO Implementation group - NEODAAS DL Cloud Masking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | DC gave a talk to the EO Implementation group on the Deep Learning method for Cloud Masking NEODAAS have been working on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | EO Week/NEODAAS Airborne Data Processing capability - update for new NCEO instruments - WJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peak attendance of 62. Feedback of session received was "interesting talks" and "enjoyed the session". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eoweek2021.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EO-Week-Abstract-Booklet-2021-2.pdf#page=137 |
| Description | Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) Online Focus Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ES attended and presented poster on "NEODAAS capabilities to support coastal and estuarine science" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ecsa.international/event/2021/rearranged-ecsa-online-focus-meeting-catchment-coast-emphasis-... |
| Description | GTC Spring 2021 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MAGEO (NEODAAS service) was promoted in the GTC NVIDIA Spring 2021 Keynote talk - currently 2.2 million views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/eAn_oiZwUXA?t=902 |
| Description | Images for Wildlife Trust Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided Images and scientific insight for the Isle of Scilly Wildlife Trust blog post. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ios-wildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/into-the-blue |
| Description | Improved Sentinel 3 OLCI marine products available through NEODAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on NEODAAS website announcing updated processing to utilise EUMETSAT Processing Baseline 3. Written by SP, DC + K-M |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/Improved_Sentinel_3_OLCI_marine_products_available_through_NEODAAS |
| Description | Introduction to Earth Observation Data - 1 day course for Exeter Environmental Intelligence CDT December 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | DC, KAC & ES provided training to students on the Environmental Intelligence CDT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/Services/Support_and_training |
| Description | Invited talk at EUMETSAT training workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | ES was invited to provide a talk on using satellite data and the NEODAAS service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust - Blog "Into the blue" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Images used in Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust blog |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ios-wildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/into-the-blue |
| Description | Keeping pace with the rapidly increasing volume of Earth Observation satellite data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | James Dingle presented a poster titled "Keeping pace with the rapidly increasing volume of Earth Observation satellite data" at the 4th Conference of Research Software Engineers in September 2019. The poster presentation included a picture demonstration of the data portal, NEODAAS branding and a description of the data NEODAAS can produce/are producing and how much work has been needed to keep up with all of the recent (last 5 years) satellites launched. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Leaflet Update and re-print - NEODAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | New updated NEODAAS leaflet has been re-printed to reflect the new branding of the NEODAAS service. Leaflets will be circulated at multiple events over the coming year providing potential users detailed information about the services and products NEODAAS can offer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meet the authors - Q&A session on detection of plastic from satellite data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1st July 2020 - Attended by 18 people from across of academia and industry internationally attended a 'Meet the authors - Q&A session on detection of plastic from satellite data' hosted by NEODAAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NEODAAS Twitter account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social Media channel for NEODAAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/NEODAAS |
| Description | NEODAAS provides near real-time satellite data to support a research cruise investigating the Benguela Upwelling System. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on NEODAAS website providing details on a cruise supported by NEODAAS. Written by DC + K-M |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/NEODAAS_provides_near_real-time_satellite_data_to_support_a_research_... |
| Description | NEODAAS/FSF Training course October 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Joint NEODAAS/FSF Training event run by NEODAAS staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/Services/Support_and_training |
| Description | NEODAAS/FSF training course 5-8th October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 15 people, mostly PhD students attended a virtual training event which led to a request to provide similar training for SENCE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | New study helps NEODAAS pick the best algorithm for estimating chlorophyll from satellite data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on NEODAAS website promoting publication from NEODAAS staff. Written by SP, DC + K-M |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/New_study_helps_NEODAAS_pick_the_best_algorithm_for_estimating_chloro... |
| Description | OCF Press Release - MAGEO GPU cluster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release through OCF (suppliers of the GPU cluster) picked up by multiple media sources internationally. http://primeurmagazine.com/weekly/AE-PR-02-21-51.html https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/environmental-researchers-benefit-from-powerful-supercomputer-at-plymouth-marine-laboratory/ https://digitalisationworld.com/news/60585/environmental-researchers-benefit-from-powerful-supercomputer-at-plymouth-marine-laboratory https://www.techmarketview.com/api/em/mail.aspx?d=H75_jxvYXctaPxTTYxbtG9LiBNKNXiiWmbCN8myHsh_wmQAxgpBAyGeMhRyHKivV#blog180474 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.scientific-computing.com/news/environmental-researchers-benefit-hpc-resources-plymouth-m... |
| Description | Ocean Colour / Portal Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training course on Ocean Colour and NEODAAS. Held for 5 lecturers from marine science course at Cornwall College on 27th January. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | PACE Applications Workshop? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event for the advancing the application readiness and societal value of future PACE satellite data, research, and applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | PML/Exeter Webinar AI and Big Data capability for Earth Observation at PML: Overview and current research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PML/Exeter Webinar AI and Big Data capability for Earth Observation at PML:Overview and current research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | PML/Exeter Webinar/ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PML/Exeter Webinar/ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Poster Presentation: MAGEO - The Massive GPU Cluster For Earth Observation: Supporting Artificial Intelligence Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 500 research scientists and HPC industry leaders attended the Computing Insight conference on the 5th and 6th December 2019. A poster was presented and discussions about AI for Earth Observation and the coming NEODAAS GPU CLUSTER (MAGE) occurred increasing NEODAAS profile and the services that it offers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at JNCC / Copernicus EO4WAter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenation on the CERTO project which includs ideas originally started in GloboLakes. AIm was to increase interest in the area of inland and coatal water quality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Press release for NEODAAS recommissioning and website relaunch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Picked up by other media outlets, press release for for NEODAAS recommissioning and website relaunch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/Earth_observation_service_NEODAAS_website_relaunch |
| Description | SENCE EO CDT Training Session - 26th and 27th October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided virtual sessions on atmospheric correction as part of SENCE EO CDT Training Session held 26th - 27th October 2020. Attended by 17 PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | SENSE EO CDT Training Week November 2021: Sessions on atmospheric correction and Machine Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS staff provided training for the SENSE EO CDT Training Week on atmospheric correction and Machine Learning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/Services/Support_and_training |
| Description | UK Earth Observation Week 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS staff attended the UK EO Week. Five members of NEODAAS staff (SBG, KAW, ES, DC, WJ & LB) gave presentations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eoweek2021.uk/ |
| Description | Working Internationally in EO Workshop. 1st July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 scientific researchers met to attend the workshop on "working internationally in Earth Observation". This was a national event held in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |