07-17, 11:00–11:30 (Europe/Sarajevo), EL11
The Open Science and Innovation Vision included in ESA’s EO Science Strategy (2024) addresses 8 key elements: 1) openness of research data, 2) open-source scientific code, 3) open access papers with data and code; 4) standards-based publication and discovery of scientific experiments, 5) scientific workflows reproducible on various infrastructures, 6) access to education on open science, 7) community practice of open science; and 8) EO business models built on open-source. EarthCODE (https://earthcode.esa.int) is a strategic ESA EO initiative to support the implementation of this vision.
EarthCODE (Earth Science Collaborative Open Development Environment) aims towards an integrated, cloud-based, user-centric development environment for European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth science activities and projects. EarthCODE looks to maximise long-term visibility, reuse and reproducibility of the research outputs of such projects, by leveraging FAIR and open science principles and enabling, thus fostering a sustainable scientific process. EarthCODE proposes a fully open-source flexible and scalable architecture developed with interoperable open-source blocks, with a long-term vision evolving by incrementally integrating industrially provided services from a portfolio of the Network of Resources. EarthCODE platform collaborators participate in creating integrated architecture, with interoperable solutions and federated capabilities. Additionally, EarthCODE is a utilisation domain of EOEPCA+ (https://eoepca.org/), thus contributing to the development and evolution of Open Standards and protocols to enable internationally interoperable solutions.
EarthCODE will provide an Integrated Development Platform, giving developers the tools needed to develop high quality workflows that allow experiments to be executed in the cloud and be end-to-end reproduced by other scientists. EarthCODE is built around existing open-source solutions, building blocks and platforms, such as the Open Science Catalogue, EOxHub and EOEPCA. It has additionally begun to integrate platform services from DeepESDL, Euro Data Cube, Polar TEP and the openEO federation on CDSE platforms, with more being added annually through ESA best practices. With it’s adopted federated approach, EarthCODE will have the capability to facilitate processing on other platforms, i.e. DeepESDL, ESA EURO Data Cube, Open EO Cloud/Open EO Platform and AIOPEN/AI4DTE.
The roadmap for the portal includes the initial portal release by end of 2024, followed by the capability to publish experiments in Q1 2025 (including development, publishing, finding and related community engagement), and by mid-2025 to have a further release with reproducibility capabilities around accessibility and execute functionalities.
Collaboration and Federation are at the heart of EarthCODE. As EarthCODE evolves we expect providing solutions allowing federation of data and processing. EarthCODE has ambition to deliver a model for a Collaborative Open Development Environment for Earth system science, where researchers can leverage the power of the wide range of EO platform services available to conduct their science, while also making use of FAIR Open Science tools to manage data, code and documentation, create end-to-end reproducible workflows on platforms, and have the opportunity to discover, use, reuse, modify and build upon the research of others in a fair and safe way. Overall, EarthCODE aims to enable elements for EO Open Science and Innovation vision, including open data, open-source code, linked data/code, open-access documentation, end-to-end reproducible workflows, open-science resources, open-science tools, and a healthy community applying all the elements in their practice.
EarthCODE project, encompassing EOxHub, CoCalc, Euro Data Cube, Polar TEP, DeepESDL, openEO federation on CDSE.
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Chandra is working at Telespazio UK as a Senior Project Manager for EO Software systems, where she is the Project Manager for ESA's EOPECA+ & EarthCODE projects. She also bid manages EO based projects, ranging from ground segments, climate-based projects and EO platforms.
She is also the Chair of the EO Committee as part of UKspace, where Ukspace is the trade association of the British space industry and has been its leading voice for over 30 years. As Chair, she liaises and promotes the interests of industry with the UK government, parliament and national and international stakeholders.
She previously worked at CGI as a Business Developer for Earth Observation, part of the SDI department, and at isardSAT, as part of the R&D team to manage and lead scientific/technical projects for the Space industry using Earth Observation (altimetry, passive microwave, SAR).
Prior to this, Chandra completed a PhD in Marine & Numerical Geophysics from Imperial College London with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Her thesis presented results from studying the break-up of Africa and South America 130 million years ago with the use of observational constraints and a 2D Numerical Model. Skilled in data analysis, project management, presentations, scientific writing and various suites of software (Matlab, Photoshop, Illustrator, LaTeX, MS Office), she is an all round team-player but is also happy to work autonomously. She also holds a Geophysics MSci from Imperial College London.
In between her undergraduate and doctorate degrees, she was a Young Graduate Trainee in Earth Observation at the European Space Agency (ESRIN - Frascati, Italy). Internships include placements being a Summer Intern at Statoil (Bergen, Norway), the UROP Summer Programme at Imperial College (London, UK) and a Summer Intern at the European Space Agency (ESTEC - Noordwijk, The Netherlands).