NCEO EO Informatics
Lead Research Organisation:
National Centre for Earth Observation
Department Name: UNLISTED
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Organisations
- National Centre for Earth Observation (Lead Research Organisation)
- Satellite Applications Catapult (Collaboration)
- CHARMe (Collaboration)
- Research Complex at Harwell (Collaboration)
- European Space Agency (Collaboration)
- Rangelands Association of Kenya (Collaboration)
- Natural Environment Research Council (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Peter Jan Van Leeuwen (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Jon Blower (Co-Author)
(2013)
Understanding Climate Data through Commentary Metadata: the CHARMe project
Esther Conway (Co-Author)
(2012)
Towards a long-term preservation infrastructure for Earch Science Data
Victoria Bennett (Author)
(2012)
The Facility for Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space (CEMS)
Philip Kershaw (Co-Author)
(2012)
The Earth System Grid Federation: an Open Infrastructure for Access to Distributed Geospatial Data
P. Kershaw (Co-Author)
(2013)
The CHARMe Project: Commentry Metadata for EO Datasets
Stephens A
(2012)
The challenges of developing an open source, standards-based technology stack to deliver the latest UK climate projections
in International Journal of Digital Earth
V.L. Bennett (Co-Author)
(2013)
Storing and manipulating environmental big data with JASMIN
G. Miles (Co-Author)
(2013)
Recent developments to the RAL joint IASI+GOME-2 Ozone Profile Retrievals using the TIR, UV and visible spectra
Esther Conway (Co-Author)
(2012)
Planning Digital Preservation for e-Health using Preservation Network Models
E. Conway (Co-Author)
(2013)
Modelling Long Term Digital Preservation Costs: a Scientific Data Case Study
| Description | 2012-2013: The NCEO EO Informatics Theme hosts data and provides data services, primarily for the UK Earth Observation (EO) Community, but with users from diverse disciplines, organisations and geographic areas. Over the last year, nearly 300 identifiable users actively downloaded EO data from our archive, our EO data holdings have increased to 300 TB, and the first users have been accessing the CEMS facility (Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space) for data processing and analysis alongside the data. The largest fraction of our users comes from the UK (71%), but others come from Europe (9%) and Worldwide (17%). While most of our users (69%) are based in universities, we also support users in government (15%), NERC (6%), commercial sector (3%) and schools (1%). In summer 2012, we launched a new computing system (CEMS) consisting of storage and compute funded by significant capital investment from UKSA (UK Space Agency). CEMS has been established in collaboration with academic and commercial partners in the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) at Harwell (now merged into the Satellite Applications Catapult), and supports both academic and commercial communities by providing access to data, processing and expertise for climate and environmental research, as well as for new Earth Observation related technologies and services in the commercial sector. CEMS is closely coupled to its sister facility, JASMIN, deployed by NCAS, which is specifically targeted at supporting the joint analysis of weather and climate data by the academic community and Met Office staff. Together, JASMIN and CEMS are designed to support data analysis by the UK and European climate and earth system science communities; and to provide flexible access for the climate impacts and earth observation communities to complex data and services. 2013-2014: Earth Observation and other relevant datasets in the NERC data centres operated by CEDA have been made available to users worldwide. In the last year, 321 users downloaded 2.6TB of Earth Observation Data in 170,000 files. These users were based in UK (64%), Europe (10%) and beyond, spanning universities (67%), government (15%) and other, including commercial, applications, across 15 research domains. The JASMIN-CEMS data facility was awarded approx £7M capital funding from BIS e-infrastructure investment, enabling expansion to 12 TB online storage, 4000 processing cores, offline tape systems and development of a cloud environment. The expanded infrastructure will support users in EO and Climate Science to analyse and process environmental "Big Data" for a wide range of applications Over 10 new EO datasets were added to the CEDA archives for use by NCEO and the wider science and environmental data user community We worked closely with the UK Satellite Applications Catapult to deliver CEMS the facility for Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space. Collaboration on CEMS will enable exploitation of NERC data for innovative applications in the commercial sector. |
| Exploitation Route | The EO data and services we provide can be accessed by users across a range of disciplines and sectors to develop new services, information or tools for scientific or commercial applications in climate and environment. The EO data and services we provide can be accessed by users across a range of disciplines and sectors to develop new services, information or tools for scientific or commercial applications in climate and environment. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Environment |
| URL | http://www.ceda.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Making NERC data available through NERC Data Centres Earth Observation and other relevant datasets in the NERC data centres operated by CEDA are made available to users worldwide. In the last year, 321 users downloaded 2.6TB of Earth Observation Data in 170,000 files. These users were based in UK (64%), Europe (10%) and beyond, spanning universities (67%), government (15%) and other, including commercial, applications, across 15 research domains. |
| Sector | Environment,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | European LTDP Common Guidelines Issue 2.0 |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | European Space Agency's Long Term Data Preservation Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Member of ESA's LTDP Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Natural Environment Research Council Information Strategy Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Dr Victoria Bennett is a member of the Natural Environment Research Council Information Strategy Group and has provided advice and guidance on the strategy for dealing with big data in the UK. |
| Description | UK Collaborative Ground Segment Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | UK e-Infrastructure Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | CEMS Helpdesk |
| Amount | £16,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Research Complex at Harwell |
| Department | International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2012 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | CEMS Helpdesk |
| Amount | £16,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Research Complex at Harwell |
| Department | International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2012 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | CHARMe FP7 project |
| Amount | £240,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312641 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2012 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | CHARMe FP7 project |
| Amount | £240,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312641 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | EC CHARMe |
| Amount | £240,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312641 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | EC CHARMe |
| Amount | £240,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312641 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | EC GMES-PURE |
| Amount | £96,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312256 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2013 |
| End | 03/2015 |
| Description | EC GMES-PURE |
| Amount | £96,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312256 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | EC SCIDIP-ES |
| Amount | £821,678 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 283401 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | EC SCIDIP-ES |
| Amount | £821,678 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 283401 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2011 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | ESA LTDP |
| Amount | £419,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | |
| Description | ESA LTDP |
| Amount | £419,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | ESA LTDP |
| Amount | £400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2009 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | ESA LTDP |
| Amount | £400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2009 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | ESA LTDP-Architecture |
| Amount | £14,400 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | ESA LTDP-Architecture |
| Amount | £14,400 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | GMES Pure |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312256 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | GMES Pure |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 312256 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | MEDIN |
| Amount | £9,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | MEDIN |
| Amount | £9,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2013 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | MEDIN metadata support |
| Amount | £13,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | MEDIN metadata support |
| Amount | £13,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | SCIDIP-ES FP7 project |
| Amount | £146,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 283401 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | SCIDIP-ES FP7 project |
| Amount | £146,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 283401 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | TSB HPFELD Project |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | CEDA |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Department | Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CEDA data centres |
| Start Year | 2005 |
| Description | CEMS |
| Organisation | Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Joint delivery of the facility of Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | CHARMe FP7 |
| Organisation | CHARMe |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with University of Reading and other project partners on FP7 project CHARMe |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | ESA CCI |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Department | Harwell Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Work with ESA HArwell Climate Office on data standards for Climate Change Initiative Programme |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | ESA LTDP WG |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Department | ESA Long Term Data Preservation Working Group |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ESA Long Term Data Preservation Working Group |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | European Space Agency |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Data Standards for Climate Change Data |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | ISIC CEMS |
| Organisation | Research Complex at Harwell |
| Department | International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Work with partners in ISIC to develop CEMS facility, for Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Satellites |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | SCIDIP FP7 |
| Organisation | Rangelands Association of Kenya |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Work with European partners, European Space Agency, Long Term Data Preservation Working Group |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Presentation to DEFRA Staff : Introduction to EO and Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk in workshop day for Defra staff to learn more about EO, its uses, issues, etc NCEO organised a day to educate Defra staff, I presented about EO data, its uses, applications, issues, costs, etc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |