Name: Mini Symposium on Sustainable Research Software Development for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Start: 2022-11-17T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-11-17T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Campus University of Twente - Auditorium

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Thursday 17 November 2022 10:00 - 17:00

Research software plays an important role in addressing real-world problems related to the environment and society. They also become more complex with the availability of advanced computing methods and infrastructure, such as deep learning, big data analytics, and cloud computing. This is especially the case for the Earth Observation and Geo-information Science domains that need to deal with a wide variety of large spatiotemporal data. Moreover, best practices not only in software development but also in community development are required to comply with Open Science and FAIR principles which are crucial for modern research. Research software development is essentially evolving into a team effort of professionals with different expertise and skills, including researchers, research software engineers, technology advisors, and community managers.

As a world-renown education, research, and capacity development institution, the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) has a long history and experience in research software development. Likewise, the Netherlands eScience Center builds and applies software in a collaborative manner to enhance the use of computing and digital technologies in academic research. The mini symposium aims to initiate a collaboration between ITC and the eScience Center on research software development by bringing the research and development communities of both institutions together to enable transfer of technical and practical know-how through presentations, open discussions, and networking activities. It will also help the eScience Center to better understand the specific needs of the Geo-Information and EO community. Based on the outcomes of the mini symposium, a series of hands-on training workshops on selected research software, as well as research software development best practices, will be co-organized to improve digital skills of ITC staff and students.

Date

17 November 2022

Venue

ITC Auditorium (Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE Enschede) or Online

Registration

Registration is required to attend the mini symposium. For registration please fill-in the registration form.

Programme

10:00 – 10:10	Welcome and opening
10:10 – 10:30	eScience Center and research software development Presentation of eScience Center and the Environment and Sustainability section
10:30 – 11:20	ITC and research software development Presentations of scientific departments of ITC with a focus on current research interests and the role of research software
11:20 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	eScience Center Research Software Short presentations of research software (co-)developed by the eScience Center: ESMValTool: Earth system model evaluation tool eWatercycle: Reproducible, open, and FAIR hydrological modelling Clustering Geodata Cubes: Clustering tool for geospatial applications Laserchicken: Toolkit for handling airborne laser scanning point clouds RS-DAT: Deployable analysis environment for remote sensing Data Carpentry: Introduction to geospatial raster and vector data with Python Springtime: eXplainable Machine Learning techniques for spatio-temporal phenological modelling
13:00 – 13:40	Lunch
13:40 – 15:20	ITC Research Software Short presentations of research software (co-)developed by ITC: geoslurp: Embrace the database - manage, query and combine your datasets in the cloud ILWISPy: Achieve more geo-processing with less coding Living Text Book: Learning concepts as brain wants to see them LISEM: Lisem Integrated Spatial Earth Modeller FlowMaps: Open-source flow maps with cubic splines QTM Generator: Tessellate the planet geodetically into a discrete global grid system based on an octohedron OGITO: Open Geospatial Interactive Tool to support collaborative spatial planning GlobeTrotter: Grid-based multi-source minimum cost paths and sheds fairly / JupyterFAIR: Create, publish, and download research datasets easily LitMod: Multi-observable modelling of geophysical data for the lithospheric structure of the Earth and/or other terrestrial planets STAS: Spatiotemporal Analysis Space - a collaborative geovisual analytics environment
15:20 – 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15	Open Discussion: Best practices for sustainable research software development: needs and challenges
16:15 – 16:30	Closing
16:30 - 17:00	Drinks

This event is supported by the Netherlands eScience Center Fellowship Grant NSESC.ESCF.2022.013.

For more information or questions, please contact dr. ing. Serkan Girgin (s.girgin@utwente.nl).

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