Our colleague Martyna Stelmaszczuk-Górska, from JENA university (Germany) will present tomorrow, September 1st at 3.30pm, the paper titled “Body of knowledge for the Earth observation and geoinformation sector – A basis for innovative skills development” on behalf of EO4GEO consortium.

The paper has been also published in the ISPRS 2020 proceedings gathering in a issue from The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences.

Abstract: With new Earth Observation (EO) and Geoinformation (GI) data sources increasingly becoming available, evermore new skills for data collection, processing, analysis and application are required. They are needed not only from scientists, but also from practitioners working in businesses, public and private EOGI and related sectors. Aligning the continuously evolving skill sets demanded by the market and existing academic and vocational training programmes is not an easy task. Training programmes should be grounded in real needs of the sector and its labour market. To do this, it is necessary to identify the knowledge and skills needed, and map their interconnectivity in specific frameworks, which can later be used for the definition of new curricula or job-oriented learning paths. This paper presents a framework for the EOGI sector, based on a Body of Knowledge (BoK), by creating a complete set of concepts with a semantic structure underneath that supports academia and industry. Creating and updating the BoK is supported by an editing tool, the Living Textbook and by experts in the EO*GI domain, who contributes to the BoK’s enrichment.

Cite as: Stelmaszczuk-Górska, M.A.; Aguilar-Moreno, E.; Casteleyn, S.; Vandenbroucke, D.; Miguel-Lago, M.; Dubois, C.; Lemmens, R.; Vancauwenberghe, G.; Olijslagers, M.; Lang, S.; Albrecht, F.; Belgiu, M; Krieger, V.; Jagdhuber, T.; Fluhrer, A.; Soja, M.J.; Mouratidis, A.; Persson, H.J.; Colombo, R.; Masiello, G. Body of knowledge for the Earth Observation and Geoinformation sector: a basis for innovative skills development. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIII-B5-2020, 15–22, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B5-2020-15-2020

UJI team is happily contributing to the EO4GEO BoK development and leads the development of the set of tools for EO4GEO project.