Hi Folks, I Forwarded this email to you, to see if we can provide the Letter to her. I think for us it will be straightforward and it will help us to build a better community. What do you think about this proposal ?
---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Quiane Ruiz, Jorge Anulfo <[email protected]> Date: lun, 11 oct 2021 a las 16:19 Subject: Fwd: AGORA-EO & Apache Wayang To: bertty contreras <[email protected]>, Rodrigo Pardo Meza < [email protected]> Begin forwarded message: *From: *Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir <[email protected]> *Subject: **AGORA-EO & Apache Wayang* *Date: *11. October 2021 at 16:02:22 CEST *To: *<[email protected]> *Cc: *"'Quiane Ruiz, Jorge Anulfo'" <[email protected]> Dear Apache Wayang Team, I’m Begum Demir, head of the Remote Sensing Image Analysis Team at TU Berlin. Together with Dr. Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, we plan to develop a content-based satellite image search engine, called AGORA-EO. The AGORA-EO search engine’s backend will be powered by Apache Wayang to be able to index and query multiple data sources. For our ideas, we are currently writing a project proposal to European Research Council. We believe that our project, if accepted, will significantly contribute to Apache Wayang as Dr. Quiané has already discussed with some of you. In this line, we would like to ask you if you can support our project proposal by writing a letter of interest? Details about our project: *Title*: *AGORA-EO: Indexing and Querying Earth from Federated Big Data Archives * *Aim:* The AGORA-EO search engine develops the emerging tools for the accurate and scalable indexing and querying of satellite images from massive archives. We plan to bring the AGORA-EO search engine to a higher maturity level, demonstrating its value, success and technical feasibility by a prototype. *Innovation Potential*: The main innovation in AGORA-EO is the product innovation as a (content-based) EO data search engine that makes Copernicus data findable and accessible in operational applications (based on the complex content of the EO data). This is fully in line with the European Commission’s strategy in the Digital Europe Programme. AGORA-EO search engine is the first content-based search engine that comprises advanced methods (for EO data representation learning, content based EO data indexing and search together with big data processing and management approaches) in knowledge discovery from big EO data archives for global-scale applications. The innovations that are brought with AGORA-EO complete the missing technological piece in the online platforms where Copernicus data can be accessed (e.g., five DIAS platforms) and thus broaden the range of users and applications that are exploiting EO data in their business processes. While ‘Google Images’ indexes and searches web images, AGORA-EO indexes Earth and queries by example from massive EO archives. As a whole, AGORA-EO modernizes access ways to the EO data that is complementary to the existing tools for keyword/tag-based search. Best regards, Begum Demir https://rsim.berlin
