From June 26 to June 30, 2023, the second Data Week took place in the historic New City Hall in Leipzig, Germany. The main theme of the conference was urban development and planning. On Monday, the presentations and keynotes focused on the European Green Deal projects and Data Cubes as a digital data resource to create a geospatial ecosystem for Europe. Tuesday’s focus was on FAIR data, various urban planning topics and different data spaces such as agriculture, biodiversity and climate. 52°North’s Johannes Schnell opened the Climate Data Space panel with a presentation of current projects. Wednesday evolved around AI and the need for semantics when providing data to make it machine readable and processable. The last two days were dedicated to workshops and discussions on sustainability and reproducibility of AI.
Geospatial World Forum 2023
Geospatial Caravan: Embracing One & All
GWF 2023 will be held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from May 2-5, 2023. This event brings together the global geospatial community, including government and public sector, industry, academia, and civil society. They work together to simplify the technological, institutional and workflow complexities and increase the impact for the benefit of society.
52°North’s Benedikt Gräler will present work done in the I-CISK and DIRECTED projects. He focuses on connecting data and models for better climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. He is also part of a panel on Digital Twins (DTs) as seen from a geospatial perspective, and AI and Geospatial.
Thursday, May 4, 2023
16.00 – 17.30 Van Walsum Hall EUROGI Workshop:- Digital Twins, AI and Geospatial
Friday, May 5, 2023
13.30 – 15.00 Session 5: Collaborative models for fit-for-purpose knowledge co-creation
Connecting Data and Models Across Stakeholders, Science, Industry, and Government for Better Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (Dr. Benedikt Gräler)
Improving the Earth System with Artificial Intelligence
Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze presents grant for KISTE : AI Strategy for Earth System Data
During a virtual meeting with Mr. Markus Lewe (mayor of Münster), Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze presented the grant funding for the research project KISTE – AI STrategy for Earth system data to members of the project consortium. KISTE’s goal is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help analyze, prepare and publicize data about the condition of nature and environment. A particular focus is on the use of machine learning. PhD students will explore and implement current AI approaches to spatio-temporal variable pattern recognition and pattern analysis in environmental data. They will focus on five thematic fields: clouds, snow/ice, water, air quality and vegetation. The resulting methods and concepts will be incorporated in an environmental AI platform. An integrated e-learning platform will provide teaching materials to educate young scientists and disseminate the acquired knowledge. This will foster the use of AI in the field of geosciences and bridges the gap between AI and domain expertise.