In the upcoming Big Geodata Talk seminar series on 5 November at 15:00, Prof. Pebesma will speak to us about the OpenEO project. OpenEO was initiated as a cloud solution for data storage and computation to address the local analytical challenges for the ever-going Earth Observation data. To this end, openEO develops an open application programming interface (API) that connects clients like R, Python and JavaScript to big Earth Observation cloud back-ends in a simple and unified way. With such an API, each client can work with every back-end, and it becomes possible to compare back-ends in terms of capacity, cost, and results (e.g. for validation, reproducibility, etc.).
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma
Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma is the director of the Institute for Geoinformatics and the leader of the spatio-temporal modelling lab at University of Muenster. He is an active supporter for e-Science and reproducible research. He has co-authorised the book Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (2nd. ed.) and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Statistical Software.
