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Towards a

Copernican

Data Revolution

?pierre.philippe.mathieu@esa.int

ESRI Conference, 10 Nov 2016, Brussels

Blue Marble, Apollo 17, 1972, Image courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center 2

European Flagships

Nicolaas Copernicus

(1473-1543)

Galileo Galilei

(1564-1642)

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Greek

Awakening

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Celestial Spheres

Platon

(427 ac - 348 ac, Greece)

& Aristotle

(384 ac - 322 ac, Greece)

Musical Harmony of the Spheres

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Geocentric Model

Claudius Plotemy

(100-170 dc, Alexandria)Almagest (150 dc)

Astro Bible

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Cosmological Fair

Epicycles saving the Appearances for Retrograde Motions

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Renaissance

… after 1400+ years

of dark interlude …

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Heliocentric Model

Revolutionibus

Orbium Coelestium, 1543

(Thanks to Rheticus for publi!

Thanks to Aristarchus, 230ac for idea!)

Nicolaas Copernicus

(1473-1543)

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New Thinking on Earth

… Copernican Revolution?

1543 Nuremberg Edition

within intro dedicated

to Pope Paul VII

Andreas Osiander

(1498-1552)

Lutheran Preacher

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New Observational Tool

Cannocchiale

(1609)

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New Observation

Starry Messenger

(1610)Craters of the Moon Medician Stars

Jupiters’s moon

= Basis of Astro Clock

for Longitude Problem

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Confronting Model vs. Obs

Galileo

(1613)

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Space Age

… 400+ years after

first telescope …

Blue Marble, Apollo 17, 1972, Image courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center 14

First Earth’s Selfie from Space

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Earth Observation Revolution

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Integrated View

Science

(model vs. obs)

Applications

(business)

Policies

(form/inform

decisions,

nexus view)

GIS as integrator

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Integrated View

Courtesy VisioTerra

Operational + Sustained View

18Global Mean Sea Level. Jason, Topex, Envisage

Arctic Sea-Ice

Routine monitoring of Earth Impact Signs

19Global Urban Footprint, DLR, Terra-SARx

Global Urban Footprint

Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam Moscow, Russia Cairo, Egypt

Tokyo, Japan Dehli, India Accra, Ghana

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Information

Age

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ICT Exponential (R)evolution

Courtesy David Orban

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Sensing Revolution

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Every Company is a data company

discover.sap.com/human-face-big-data

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Big data & AI

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Complex Landscape for Big Data

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On-Demand

1950s

1980s

2001

2006

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Earth at your fingertip

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Human Computation

| Flight 370 - Malaysia

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8 Million

guest accounts

1 Million km2

analysed

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Human Observation

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Human Validation

Copernicus Data (2015)

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Innovation

Age

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New Space? New Big Thing?

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Corporate Accelerator

Wayra, Telefonica

Blue Marble, Apollo 17, 1972, Image courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center 35

Seamless Pipeline for Innovation

Innovative Apps

36Credit: ESA SAP App Camp, Barcellona, 2016. app-camp.eu App Happy Sun. Flyby

CERC/Y

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ir

0 200 μg/m3

Smart FarmingSolar EnergyAir Quality

NO2 concentration UV radiation Rice Maturity

Courtesy Jerome Gasperi 37

SnapPlanet & Copernicus Masters

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Join the

Copernicus

(R)evolution

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Disruptive?

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4Ds of Rapid Changes

Digital From EO to (wider) Data …

From Projects to (web) Services …

From Product to Information (as Service)

Democratized From Close to Open ..

From User to Provider (Crowdsourcing)

Dematerialized From Lab to VREs …

From Ownership to Access (commodity)

Disruptive From Niche to Mass Market ..

From Linear to Exponential change

From Idea to Key Player (startup)

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Growth Mindset - Exploration

Cristoporo Colombo

(1451-1506)

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Growth Mindset - Communication

Johannes Gutenberg

(1394-1468)

printing press

(1400)

Connected World

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Growth Mindset - Pole Excellence

Bottega = Art + Science + Multidisciplinary Masters + Entrepreuneurship

Precursor Copernicus Accelerator & Academy

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Flavio Sabattini, Lupacchino school, Frascati, (c) 2015

Educating the New Generation

of Data Scientists

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Increasing Need for Community Building

Gandalf, Translational Leader

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The Earth in your Pocket

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Thank You

Satpucino