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#ARD20: Structural Constellations

ARD20 Satellite Data Interoperability Workshop, November 2-6, 2020

The ARD20 Satellite Data Interoperability Workshop aims to advance interoperability and collaboration in the Earth observation and remote sensing industry. It builds on the success of the ARD19 workshop, expanding the scope of collaboration beyond just API’s and data formats, to include interoperability at the data level as well as sensor fusion and derived products. There is a growing trend of Analysis Ready Data, and so with this event we convene a group of experts to start to define standards for cross-provider ARD.

Goals

  • Advance the ARD specification for greater stability and more use cases

  • Coordinate and survey trends on Data formatting for Analysis Ready Data

  • Contribution and hosting of benchmark ARD datasets

  • Definition of reference implementations of every step of harmonization for ARDs to be implemented by vendors and data providers

  • Move beyond discussion to start to establish standards of interoperability for Analysis Ready Data

  • Survey new technology, payloads and data sources that support the creation of ARD

Program Sessions

The program is divided into into 5 themes revolving around the interplay between interoperability at different levels and the ability to leverage heterogeneous datasets for sensor fusion:

  • L0 (Mon) | Payloads and Space Assets: this session is focused on current and new data sources.

  • L1 (Tue) | Calibration and Validation: This session is focused on consistency and quality of data sources.

  • L2 (Wed) | Interoperability Pipelines: This session is focused on data/metadata and software architectures enabling interoperability across multiple data sources.

  • L3 (Thurs) | Sensor Fusion: This session is focused on fusion of different data sources into meta-products.

  • L4 (Friday) | Derived Products: This session is focused on higher level fusion and derived analytics.

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Feedback

We appreciate your feedback, please let us know what are your takeaways and how we can improve things in the future. The input will be used in writing and publishing a retrospective together with the feedback from ARD18 and ARD19. Make it count!