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IIMvLAB

Image Information Mining Coordination Group

IIMvLab
IIM Virtual Laboratory

	Motivation
	Objectives / Scope
	Resources
	Rules / Procedure
	Experiments

Motivation

Research groups working on developing applications based on Earth Observation (EO) images typically work on cases of research interest, using local infrastructure not connected with other centres, either operational or for research. Therefore they naturally tend to focus on topics which might not be of immediate interest to organisations with specific operational tasks and expose their results only through publications. Virtual laboratories seek to provide significantly more information exchange opportunities for research and education by integrating resources of various partners and enabling joined research projects focused on specific issues.

Objectives / Scope

The IIMvLab objectives are to:

		Ensure availability of operational case studies (questions to be answered)
		Permit e-collaboration among researchers and with operational entities
		Promote suitable solutions

The IIMvLab scope is limited to the case studies proposed by the IIMCG.

Resources

The IIMvLab will be based on these initial resources:

One Reference Data Set (RDS) for each operational case study that will:

		Describe the question to be answered
		Provide related images, data and information
		Provide (as possible) data and tools for automated result verification
		Permit loading (through RDS administrator) of results, documents, auxiliary data, modules, etc.
		Remain constantly available for new solutions or evolutions

Access to all KEO resources for e-collaboration:

		Processing infrastructure
		KEO client
		Processing Components

Wiki or Forum for interactions' support

Rules / Procedure

Participation to the IIMvLab requires:

		Registration for access to the resources
		Acceptance of Terms and Conditions, when requested, in particular for specific images
		As defined within the Terms and Conditions (when applicable) the images shall be used only for the case study purposes
		Any result shall be freely available for publication (the need to postpone for a maximum number of months their publication might be considered)

The following procedure, even if focused on new case studies, is equally applicable to the old ones, which will remain open until further notice:

		The IIMCG defines a new case study
		ESA creates and populates a new RDS and sends a circular e-mail
		Interested partners request access to ESA
		During development, the partner might have direct access to specific contact points and to result assessment methods
		The partner informs ESA when and where results are available
		ESA collects results into related RDS and informs the concerned IIMCG member
		The concerned IIMCG member makes the results assessed and provides assessment results to ESA
		ESA loads assessment results into the RDS and informs the partner
		The IIMCG foster publication of successful results on suitable media (e.g.: ESA Workshop Proceedings associated to the ESA-EUSC-JRC Conferences, other related publications, etc.)

Experiments

Experiment 1: Bridging the gap with operations

Jan Ebeltjes, EUSC - November 4, 2009

Reference Data Set

EUSC summary	J. Ebeltijs	Presentation (10 MB)
Case study on Object-Based Image Analysis for Land Cover classification in security and emergency application	L. Brodsky	Presentation (22.4 MB) Paper (0.4 MB)
Semi-automatic classification and semantic annotation of very high resolution satellite images	D. Bratasanu	Presentation (9 MB)
Feature Extraction using ENVI	I. Echave Calvo	Paper (3.26 MB)
Morphological Descriptiors and Spatial Aggregations for Characterizing Damaged Buildings in Very High Resolution Images	L. Gueguen	Presentation (3.08 MB) Paper (0.6 MB)
Multi-class Automated and semi-automated feature extraction using ERDAS IMAGINE Objective	M. Lane	Presentation (5.85 MB) Paper (1.19 MB)
Change Detection with medium resolution satellite imagery	I. Hernandez Ramiro	Presentation (1.85 MB) Paper (1.63 MB)

Experiment 2: L'Aquila Area Earthquake

Salvatore Stramondo, INGV - April 20, 2010

Reference Data Set

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Page last modified on Monday 27 of February 2012 17:22:41 CET by Michele Iapaolo.

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