IIMvLAB
Image Information Mining Coordination Group
IIMvLab
IIM Virtual Laboratory
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Motivation |
Objectives / Scope | |
Resources | |
Rules / Procedure | |
Experiments |
Motivation |
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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 |
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The IIMvLab objectives are to:
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Ensure availability of operational case studies (questions to be answered) | |
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Permit e-collaboration among researchers and with operational entities | |
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Promote suitable solutions |
The IIMvLab scope is limited to the case studies proposed by the IIMCG.
Resources |
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The IIMvLab will be based on these initial resources:
One Reference Data Set (RDS) for each operational case study that will:
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Describe the question to be answered | |
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Provide related images, data and information | |
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Provide (as possible) data and tools for automated result verification | |
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Permit loading (through RDS administrator) of results, documents, auxiliary data, modules, etc. | |
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Remain constantly available for new solutions or evolutions |
Access to all KEO resources for e-collaboration:
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Processing infrastructure | |
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KEO client | |
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Processing Components |
Wiki or Forum for interactions' support
Rules / Procedure |
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Participation to the IIMvLab requires:
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Registration for access to the resources | |
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Acceptance of Terms and Conditions, when requested, in particular for specific images | |
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As defined within the Terms and Conditions (when applicable) the images shall be used only for the case study purposes | |
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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:
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The IIMCG defines a new case study | |
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ESA creates and populates a new RDS and sends a circular e-mail | |
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Interested partners request access to ESA | |
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During development, the partner might have direct access to specific contact points and to result assessment methods | |
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The partner informs ESA when and where results are available | |
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ESA collects results into related RDS and informs the concerned IIMCG member | |
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The concerned IIMCG member makes the results assessed and provides assessment results to ESA | |
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ESA loads assessment results into the RDS and informs the partner | |
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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 |
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Experiment 1: Bridging the gap with operations
Jan Ebeltjes, EUSC - November 4, 2009
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