Assessing the development of urban areas and the corresponding agriculture area loss
Copernicus Access Platform Intermediate Layers Small Scale Demonstrator
- CANDELA combines data, software, machine learning, big-data analytics on a highly scalable cloud-IT infrastructure
- CANDELA is a platform that uses Copernicus data and brings together all those who use, create and interpret geodata
- CANDELA is a middleware platform that allows the EU science community accessing the DIAS-Copernicus data and information access services and take advantage of using geodata
- What is CANDELA
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Main Objectives
Earth Observation data mining for classification and change detection
Deep Learning for Change Detection on time series for optical and radar Earth observation data
Semantic search and indexation on the output of the Earth observation library and non-image data
Data fusion techniques to merge preprocessed data that came from various sources
Reference Scenarios
Partners will design, implement and validate scalable EO data analytics to process large amounts of data.
These algorithms will be implemented on CANDELA platform, which has an access to Copernicus data, and will be applied at regional and national level to use cases such as: urban expansion, forest health and natural disasters (e.g. forest fire, vineyard damages).
Urban Expansion and Agriculture
Change Detection in Vineyards
Assessing damage level in vineyards caused by natural hazards
Abrupt Natural Disasters
Localizing and estimating the severity of abrupt natural disasters
Forest Health Monitoring
Monitoring of forest health conditions
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CANDELA NEWSLETTER #5
CANDELA Newsletter Issue-5 October/2020
The fifth CANDELA Newsletter has just been released.
This issue includes the material about:
- Editorial Overview & Updates
- Interview with the project coordinator
- Demos & Tools
- Introduction to the CANDELA Platform
- Change Detection Tool
- Vineyards Detection and Classification Using the Data
- Mining Tool
- Semantic Tools
- Final Event
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Official Video Release
On the past 25th of September 2020, we announced the official video release.
Duration: 3:37min
Description: The video present the project overview, explains the main objectives and goals, and also illustrates the system architecture, use cases, and the offering.You can see the video using the link below.
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Press Release Publication
The first "Press Release" of the CANDELA project has been announced and is available to all.
Title: CANDELA a research project to promote and explore Copernicus data use
Description: CANDELA is a research project that stands for “Copernicus Access Platform Intermediate Layers Small Scale Demonstrator” and has a 1.9M€ of EU funding under the Research and Innovation action from the Horizon 2020 program. The project is enriching the Copernicus ecosystem and investigating using novel techniques. Partners from academia, research institutions, SME’s and IT companies are working together with the overall aim to offer a platform who delivers building blocks and services to enable users to quickly use, manipulate, explore, and process Earth Observation data.
Read the full version or download the PDF file in the link below.
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Participation on EGU General Assembly 2020
On the last 8th of May 2020, our partners have participated in the annual EGU General Assembly 2020, considered as Europe's largest and most prominent geosciences event.
The EGU General Assembly 2020 brought together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aimed to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.Our partners from DLR presented at the session “Spatio-temporal data science: theoretical advances and applications in computational geosciences”, with the topic of “Data Fusion on the CANDELA Cloud Platform”. The presentation demonstrated how WP2 data fusion module runs on the CANDELA cloud platform.
The session has been organized as a live, text-based chat. Our presentation took about 7 minutes, which included also two questions from the audience. Based on the comments, we will make further validation and improvements for the data fusion tool.
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WEBINAR: The CANDELA EO Data Mining Tools: A Tutorial
On the next 6th of May 2020, our partner Mihai Datcu (DLR, Germany) will present the CANDELA project as a part of the AI4EU Café session in the webinar titled: The CANDELA EO Data Mining Tools: A Tutorial. The presentation will give an insight into Machine Learning principles with a focus on Active Learning implementing EO Data Mining functions. The CANDELA Data Mining tools are described and demonstrated for Sentinel 2 observations. The tools operate similarly for Sentinel 1. You can find more information from the registration form following the first link below or watch the full video clicking the second link.
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CANDELA NEWSLETTER #4
CANDELA Newsletter Issue-4 March/2020
The fourth CANDELA Newsletter has just been released.
This issue includes the material about:- Editorial Overview & Updates
- Deep Learning in CANDELA System Architecture Design and Operational Scenarios
- Validation Process in CANDELA
- Team Presentation (Part 2)
- Past Events Upcoming Events and more!
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Participation on ISESS 2020
On the last 3rd of February 2020, our partners have participated in the 13th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems conference.
ISESS, the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, was initiated in 1995 as a forum to present and discuss research fundamentals and state-of-the-art applications in environmental informatics. Over the years, it has also evolved into an important networking event for academics and industry experts, specializing in software engineering, data science, and environmental sciences.
The 13th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS’2020) theme is Data Science in Action and aims to serve as a forum to present primary research in data science research and applications in the social, environmental and green life sciences.
People seem really interested in the presentation and we have the opportunity to exchange the solutions adopted in the CANDELA project (Docker and Dask) and about the DIAS platforms.
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Participation on EU Space Week
Last 3 of December 2019, our partners have participated in The European Space Week. This event brought together the EU space programme and its applications and various operators, businesses, and visionaries of the rapidly changing space sector. The event enhances the visibility of the use of space technology, applications, and data in our everyday lives, in business activities and in supporting policy objectives.
The aim of the initiative was to share insights into the EU Space strategy, develop relations within the community, and promote the CANDELA project.
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Participation on C3S 3rd General Assembly
Last 28 of November 2019, our partners have participated in C3S 3rd General Assembly. The Copernicus Climate Change Service is holding a General Assembly for providers, users, and potential users alike. The goal of the event is to present highlights, lessons learned and future developments of the service, also bring together the C3S community including providers and users to share knowledge and experience across the various components of the service.
This event was the opportunity to establish contacts with possible stakeholders and promote the CANDELA project between participants.
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H2020 EO Big Data Hackathon
CANDELA attended on November 7-8 in Frascati, the H2020 Earth Observation Big Data Hackathon, a joint event organized by the five EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects under the umbrella of the H2020 EU funded topic on EO Big Data Shift and Space Research, and that is developing cutting-edge software to process large amounts of Earth Observation data.
For CANDELA, participation was the following: Mohanad Albughdadi (TerraNIS), Michelle Aubrun (TAS FR), Mihai Datcu (DLR), Jean Francois Rolland (Atos France), Ba-Huy Tran (IRIT), Alek Cesarz (CloudFerro), and Jose Lorenzo (Atos Spain) as Project Coordinator.
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About Us
CANDELA team is a well-balanced consortium, consisting of seven partners from five European countries, and with strong participation from the industry as encouraged by the Call, being half of the partners well positioned SME’s.
