EOMasters Newsletter #021
07/04/2024
Hello EO-Masters!
In the February Newsletter #17 I told you that I was working on a map for coastal areas. The processing of the data for the map is now completed. Currently I'm finalising the documentation, and it will be available soon. Read more in the EOMasters News section.
Let's continue with the latest EO news.
In this Issue:
EOMasters News
Processing of Coastal Map completed
EO and RS News
Introducing HEDAVI Discover
ESA is developing an AI bot like ChatGPT for Earth observation data
Beyond EO
Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance
EOMasters News
Processing of Coastal Map completed
The processing of the coastal map is completed. 🎉
It took more than 2500 hours to process the 7200 tiles each with 36000x36000 pixels. This means the map has spatial resolution of 10m.
Each pixel provides 10 different flags:
The vicinity flags are derived from an internal map on which the vicinity to land or water is defined by a value between 0 and 100.
Currently I'm working on the documentation and the map will be released soon. The data will be freely available on Zenodo and I will provide an integration into SNAP.
I'm curious if you will find it useful.
EO and RS News
ESA Provides Sample Data for Third Party Missions
The Heritage Data Visualization tool (HEDAVI) allows you to explore and discover 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions, and certain Copernicus data. Users can access global synthesis, case studies, and radar images spanning four decades. A new step-by-step guide explains how to use it.
ESA is developing an AI bot like ChatGPT for Earth observation data
ESA is working on a digital assistant with natural language capabilities to process Earth observation data and respond to human queries in a user-friendly manner. This is to take advantage of the transformative innovation in the domain of AI and capture the opportunities enabled by this technology.
Read more about ESA's plans in this interesting article.
Beyond EO
Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance
Two rare Q1 computers from 1972 were found during a house clearance in London. The Q1 is considered to be the world's first real desktop PC with a fully integrated processor and can therefore be regarded as a significant historical discovery. It featured an Intel 8008 processor, the first 8-bit microprocessor, and was equipped with a keyboard and a neon orange plasma display.
Newsletter Archive
For past editions of this newsletter, you can visit the archive.
That's it for this issue. I hope you enjoyed this collection of news. Stay tuned for the next edition, which will arrive in your inbox in about two weeks.
Tschüss and Goodbye!
Marco
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