If you follow me on twitter it won't be news to you that last week I was lucky enough to
be sponsored by the mighty Zero Dependency to go to the 3 day UK Space Conference. I had an amazing time and there was a
bewildering amount of stuff to see and hear and I'm going to share a few posts of curated bits and pieces I took away from it.
One of the first
talks I went to was by Georgy Dean from Astrosat talking about
the Copernicus Masters program,
the ESA Copernicus
program is astonishing. Within the Copernicus mission three satellites Sentinel 1,2 and
3 are currently on orbit and have a wide range of sensors and imaging equipment
doing earth observation. Every time they pass over the EU region they
complete a full capture of all the sensors... and all this data is
opensource. That’s an amazing amount of data that anyone can use
and use cases were shown from local authorities looking at the
change in green zones around cities to flood management research.
The Copernicus masters program seeks to maximise the impact the mission can have by promoting Copernicus data and enticing people to consider innovative uses for it in creating applications.
Joining the Copernicus
masters competition means people can get a whole heap of support through from the program with regular series of online webinars and other
support activities. There are competitions and funding
opportunities for those creating interesting applications. In the
closing part of Georgy’s talk it was notable that she felt that
(due to the overwhelming amount of data available from Copernicus) the future of tackling this
big data will possibly lie in the creative application of machine
learning and AI.. so if you are into open data, big data and neural
networks... get stuck in!
Stay tuned for part 2... when I get chance!
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