EO4GEO – GEOTEC

Toward an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus User Uptake

Funding institution: European Commission – Education, audiovisual and executive agency (EACEA)
Total budget: 3.876.045 € / Budget UJI: 247.575 €
Duration: January 2018-30 June 2022

EO4GEO is an Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliance gathering 26 partners form 12 countries from academia, private and public sector active in the educational/training and space/geospatial sectors. EO4GEO aims to help bridging the skills gap between supply and services in end-user Applications. EO4GEO will work in an multi- and interdisciplinary way and apply innovative solutions for its education and training actions including: case based and collaborative learning scenarios; learning-while- doing in a living lab environment: on-the job training; the co-creation of knowledge, skills and competences, etc. EO4GEO will define a long-term and sustainable strategy to fill the gap between supply of and demand for space/geospatial education and training taking into account the current and expected technological and non-technological developments in the space/geospatial and related sectors (e.g. ICT). The strategy will be implemented by : creating and maintaining an ontology-based Body of Knowledge for the space/geospatial sector based on previous efforts; developing and integrating a dynamic collaborative platform with associated tools; designing and developing a series of curricula and a rich portfolio of training modules directly usable in the context of Copernicus and other relevant programmes and conducting a series if training actions for a selected set of scenario’s in three sub-sectors – integrated Applications, smart cities and climate change to test and validate the approach. Finally, a long-term Action Plan will be developed and endorser to roll-out and sustain the proposed solutions

GEOTEC will be in charge for the development of new innovative tools for the EO4GEO Platform leading WP3, and will be involved in the analysis of trends, challenges and opportunities under WP1 and in the definition and fine-tuning of an ontology-based approach (WP2). UJI will host a project meeting and a workshop connected to WP1. Moreover, it will contribute to capacity building and dissemination activities and will cooperate within the project Consortium in management and quality assurance and evaluation activities.

Publications

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Lemmens, Rob; Albrecht, Florian; Lang, Stefan; Casteleyn, Sven; Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Martyna; Olijslagers, Marc; Begiu, Mariana; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Augustijn, Ellen-Wine; Carsten Pathe, Eva-Maria Missoni-Steinbacher; Monfort-Muriach, Aida

Updating and using the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge for (AI) concept annotation Proceedings Article

In: AGILE GIScience Series (Proceedings of the 25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science), Copernicus Publications, 2022.

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Lemmens, Rob; Lang, Stefan; Albrecht, Florian; Augustijn, Ellen-Wien; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Olijslagers, Marc; Pathe, Carsten; Dubois, Clemence; Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Martyna

Integrating concepts of artificial intelligence in the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge Proceedings Article

In: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (XXIV ISPRS Congress), pp. 53-59, Copernicus Publications, 2022, ISSN: 2194-9034.

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title = {Integrating concepts of artificial intelligence in the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge},

author = {Rob Lemmens and Stefan Lang and Florian Albrecht and Ellen-Wien Augustijn and Carlos Granell-Canut and Marc Olijslagers and Carsten Pathe and Clemence Dubois and Martyna Stelmaszczuk-Górska},

doi = {10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2022-53-2022},

issn = {2194-9034},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-06-01},

booktitle = {The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (XXIV ISPRS Congress)},

volume = {XLIII-B4-2022},

pages = {53-59},

publisher = {Copernicus Publications},

abstract = {The EO4GEO Body of Knowledge (BoK) forms a structure of concepts and relationships between them, describing the domain of Earth Observation and Geo-Information (EO/GI). Each concept carries a short description, a list of key literature references and a set of associated skills which are used for job profiling and curriculum building. As the EO/GI domain is evolving continuously, the BoK needs regular updates with new concepts embodying new trends, and deprecating concepts which are not relevant anymore. This paper presents the inclusion of BoK concepts related to Artificial Intelligence. This broad field of knowledge has links to several applications in EO/GI. Its connection to concepts, already existing in the BoK, needs special attention. To perform a clean and structural integration of the cross-cutting domain of AI, first a separate cluster of AI concepts was created, which was then merged with the existing BoK. The paper provides examples of this integration with specific concepts and examples of training resources in which AI-related concepts are used. Although the presented structure already provides a good starting point, the positioning of AI within the EO/GI-focussed BoK needs to be further enhanced with the help of expert calls as part of the BoK update cycle.},

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Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Martyna; Aguilar-Moreno, Estefanía; Casteleyn, Sven; Vandenbroucke, Danny; Miguel-Lago, Mónica; Dubois, Clemence; Lemmens, Rob; Vancauwenberghe, Glenn; Olijslagers, Marc; Lang, Stefan; Belgiu, Florian Albrecht Mariana; Krieger, Veronika; Soja, Therese Jagdhuberand Anka Fluhrerand M. J.; Mouratidis, Antonios; Persson, H. J.; Colombo, R.; Masiello, Guido

Body of knowledge for the Earth Observation and Geoinformation sector: a basis for innovative skills development Journal Article

In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XLIII-B5-2020, pp. 15-22, 2020.

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Hofer, Barbara; Casteleyn, Sven; Aguilar-Moreno, Estefanía; Missoni-Steinbacher, Eva; Albrecht, Florian; Lemmens, Rob; Lang, Stefan; Albrecht, Jochen; Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Martyna; Vancauwenberghe, Glenn; Monfort-Muriach, Aida

Complementing the European Earth Observation and Geographic Information Body of Knowledge with a Business-oriented Perspective Journal Article

In: Transactions on GIS, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 587-601, 2020, ISSN: 1467-9671.

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