Research software play important role in addressing real-world problems related to 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 community development are required to comply with Open Science and FAIR principles that 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
Programme
10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome and opening (Prof. Dr. Freek D. van der Meer, Dean of ITC)
(🎞 Video)
Introduction and overview (Dr. Serkan Girgin, Senior Researcher, Head of ITC-CRIB)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) |
10:10 – 10:30 | eScience Center and research software development
Presentation of eScience Center and the Environment and Sustainability section (Dr. Yifat Dzigan, Section Head Environment and Sustaintability, eScience Center)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) |
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 (Bouwe Andela, Research Software Engineer and Dr. Sarah Alidoost, Research Software Engineer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - eWatercycle: Reproducible, open, and FAIR hydrological modelling (Dr. Peter Kalverla, Research Software Engineer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - Clustering Geodata Cubes: Clustering tool for geospatial applications (Dr. Francesco Nattino, Research Software Engineer) (in collaboration with ITC, Prof. Dr. Raul Zurita Milla)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - Springtime: eXplainable Machine Learning techniques for spatio-temporal phenological modelling (Dr. Peter Kalverla, Research Software Engineer) (in collaboration with ITC, Dr. Mahdi Khodadadzadeh, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - Laserchicken: Toolkit for handling airborne laser scanning point clouds (Dr. Meiert W. Grootes, Senior Research Software Engineer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - RS-DAT: Deployable analysis environment for remote sensing (Dr. Pranav Chandramouli, Research Software Engineer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - Data Carpentry: Introduction to geospatial raster and vector data with Python (Dr. Francesco Nattino, Research Software Engineer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides)
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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 (Dr. Roelof Rietbroek, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - ILWISPy: Achieve more geo-processing with less coding (Bas Retsios, Software Developer; Dr. Ben H. P. Maathuis, Assistant Professor; Martin Schouwenburg, Software Developer; and Willem Nieuwenhuis, Software Developer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - Living Textbook: Learning concepts as brain wants to see them (Dr. Rob L.G. Lemmens, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - LISEM: Lisem Integrated Spatial Earth Modeller (Dr. Bastian van den Bout, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - FlowMaps: Open-source flow maps with cubic splines (Dr. Paulo Raposo, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - QTM Generator: Tessellate the planet geodetically into a discrete global grid system based on an octohedron (Dr. Paulo Raposo, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - NRS Tools: Pre-processing tools in ENVI/IDL (Willem Nieuwenhuis, Software Developer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - OGITO: Open Geospatial Interactive Tool to support collaborative spatial planning (Dr. Johannes Flacke, Assistant Professor)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - STAS: Spatiotemporal Analysis Space - a collaborative geovisual analytics environment (Dr. Gustavo García Chapeton, Lecturer)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) - fairly / JupyterFAIR: Create, publish, and download research datasets easily (Dr. Serkan Girgin, Senior Researcher; Manuel Garcia Alvarez, TU Delft Research Software Engineer; Jose Urra Llanusa, TU Delft Research Software Engineer; and Dr. Kees den Heijer, 4TU.ResearchData Senior Developer Open Science Infrastructures)
(🎞 Video) (🖺 Presentation Slides) GlobeTrotter: Grid-based multi-source minimum cost paths and sheds (Dr. Serkan Girgin, Senior Researcher)
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15:20 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
15:30 – 16:15 | Open Discussion:
Best practices for sustainable research software development: needs and challenges
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16:15 – 16:30 | Closing
(🎞 Video) |
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).
