Company-Project:
Polarview - Polar TEP
Description:
• Polar TEP, Cryosphere Virtual Laboratory, and Euro Data Cube are working together to fulfil the needs of the polar community for data and analytical capabilities in support of scientific and operational uses. As a result, these ESA sponsored initiatives have become a central hub in the wider polar data ecosystem.
• The demonstration will begin by illustrating how the polar data community is achieving the FAIR data principles and processing interoperability, and the role of ESA projects.
• The demonstration will then showcase how earth observation data and computational resources are being harnessed to have significant impacts in the lives of people living and working in the North through two use cases:
o Arctic shipping: The International Maritime Organization “Polar Code” requires ships to have access to various types of data to ensure the safety of life and the environment. Much of this data is derived from earth observation sources. An operational service processes the data and provides it in a format accessible to ships over intermittent and low-bandwidth connections. Machine learning is beginning to be used to facilitate the creation of sea ice charts.
o Local communities: The Arctic “fast-ice”, the immobile sea ice attached to the shore, is of vital importance to safety of communities in Canada, Greenland, and Finland who use the ice to travel and hunt. An operational service is automatically processing large quantities of SAR data to determine the characteristics of the fast-ice.