Copernicus and AI Francesco Barbato (Policy Officer, European Commission)

1. Copernicus EU
Copernicus EU www.copernicus.eu
Copernicus EU
E U ’s C o p e r n i c u s @
E B D V F 2 0 1 9 H e l s i n k i
Francesco BARBATO
Policy Officer
European Commission –DG GROW I.3

2. Copernicus
Copernicus in one slide
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Data and Information Access Service (DIAS) and user support
Users

3. Copernicus
Copernicus
• Copernicus is the largest programme in the world to monitor our planet
and of Europe’s largest data supplier
• Copernicus data are free and open to all
• 6 Copernicus Services: Land, Marine,Atmosphere,Climate Change,
Security,Emergency
• Data available via 5 DIAS (Data and InformationAccess Service)
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4. Copernicus
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SENTINEL-1:
4-40m resolution, 6 days revisit at equator
Polar-orbiting, all-weather,
day-and-night radar imaging
2 Sats in
orbit
SENTINEL-2:
10-60m resolution, 5 days revisit time
2 Sats in
Orbit
Polar-orbiting, multispectral
optical, high-res imaging
SENTINEL-3:
300-1200m resolution, <2 days revisit
2 Sats in
Orbit
Optical and altimeter mission
monitoring sea and land parameters
SENTINEL-5p:
7-68km resolution, 1 day revisit
Atmosphere chemistry monitoring
1 Sat in
Orbit
The Copernicus Sentinels

5. Copernicus
The Copernicus Data Access and Information Platforms (DIAS)
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6. Copernicus
Copernicus Applications
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7. Copernicus
A r t i c i a l I n t e l l i g e n c e – P o l i c y C o n t e x t
• Artificial Intelligence for Europe -COM(2018) 237, 25/04/18
– Being ahead of technological developments and encouraging uptake by the
public and private sectors
– Prepare for socio-economic changes brought about by AI
– Ensure an appropriate ethical and legal framework
• Coordinated EU Plan on Artificial Intelligence - COM(2018) 795,
07/12/18
– Joint actions for closer and more efficient cooperation between Member States and the
Commission in four key areas: increasing investment, making more data available, fostering
talent and ensuring trust
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8. Copernicus
P o l i c y C o n t e x t
• Data, a cornerstone for AI
• European Data Spaces
– open data formats,machine readable,standardizedand
documented, both in the interactionbetween public and private
sectors,within sectors and across sectors.
• Artificial Intelligence
• High Performance Computing
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9. Copernicus
A n n o t a t e d i m a g e r e p o s i t o r y
• ImageNet
– 10 classes with in total 27,000 labeled and geo-referenced images
• ExtremeEarth
– http://earthanalytics.eu/
• BigEarth
– http://bigearth.eu
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10. Copernicus
F u n d i n g O p p o r t u n i t i e s
• H2020 – Work Programme 2020
– DT-SPACE-25-EO-2020: Big data technologies and Artificial
Intelligence for Copernicus (R&I)
• Research and Innovation actions
• Overall budget 10 M€
• The Call opens on 05/11/19. The Call closes on 05/03/2020
– DT-SPACE-01-2018-2020: Copernicus Market Uptake
• Innovation actions
• Overall budget 9 M€
• The Call opens on 05/11/19. The Call closes on 05/03/2020
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-leit-
space_en.pdf
• Copernicus Work Programme 2020
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11. Copernicus EU
Copernicus EU www.copernicus.eu
Copernicus EU
T h a n k y o u
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