Presented at the exhibition of the European Data Forum 2013 held at the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin on 9-10 April, 2013

1.
World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
Spa$al
Data
Solu$ons
for
Europe
Patrick Hogan, NASA
Gábor Remetey, Hungarian Association for Geo-Information
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano
Raffaele De Amicis, Graphitech
European
Data
Forum
Exhibi$on
Croke
Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013

2. What
Is
World
Wind?
• World
Wind,
the
2009
NASA
SoFware
of
the
Year,
is
NASA’s
open
source
virtual
globe
technology
for
spa$al
data.
• World
Wind
is
based
on
open
standards,
i.e.,
OGC
WMS,
and
can
be
configured
to
accommodate
any
desired
data
format.
• World
Wind
is
freely
u$lized
by
the
world’s
space
agencies,
local
and
na$onal
governments
agencies,
commercial
industry,
including
Fortune
100
companies,
and
others.
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10,
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3. Why
World
Wind
Europa
Challenge?
• World
Wind
3D
visualiza$on
technology
gives
any
applica.on
a
virtual
globe
world
for
building
any
func$onality
needed
to
express,
manipulate
or
analyze
spa$al
data.
• World
Wind,
as
open
source
technology,
enhances
compe$$on
and
innova$on,
to
accelerate
development
of
solu.ons.
• World
Wind
increases
social
and
economic
benefit
for
the
world,
similar
to
other
‘open’
data
exchange
standards,
i.e.,
TCP/IP,
WMS,
GPS,
etc.
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Data
Forum
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Park
Stadium
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April
10,
2013

4. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
• Welcome
to
the
first
year
for
the
annual
Europa
Challenge!
• The
challenge
is
for
the
European
university
and
small
business
community
to
build
open
source
applica$ons
based
on
NASA’s
open
source
virtual
globe
technology,
World
Wind.
• Sustainability
is
a
key
element
for
this
enterprise:
– Applica$ons
must
serve
real
needs
of
Europe,
based
on
INSPIRE.
– Applica$ons
must
be
open
source.
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5. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
• Server
side:
uses
any
WMS-­‐compliant
server,
i.e.,
MapServer
GeoServer,
ESRI,
etc.
• Client/User
side:
the
Europa
Challenge
will
provide
a
growing
number
of
applica$ons
serving
the
European
community
and
encourage
shared
knowledge
throughout
the
user
community.
• “For
the
benefit
of
all”:
In
the
spirit
of
NASA’s
mo[o,
this
challenge
will
bridge
common
interests
between
local,
regional
and
na$onal
governments,
academia,
research
and
the
business
community.
European
Data
Forum
Exhibi$on
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Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
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6. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
h[p://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
• This
annual
event
will
inspire
and
challenge
Europe's
best
and
brightest
for
geospa$al
solu$ons
that
serve
the
needs
of
Europe.
• The
Europa
Challenge
was
designed
by
the
NASA
World
Wind
Summer
School
program
at
Politecnico
di
Milano
in
Como,
a[ended
by
~50
students,
mentors
and
NASA,
as
well
as
the
JRC
Digital
Earth
Unit
and
representa$ves
from
the
interna$onal
and
business
communi$es.
European
Data
Forum
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Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
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7. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
There
are
two
ways
to
win
the
Europa
Challenge:
– University
Team
Project
– Professional
Team
Project
Each
project
team
needs
to
decide,
design
and
build
a
geospa$al
applica$on
that
serves
the
European
community
and
aligns
with
INSPIRE
criteria
for
Europe.
European
Data
Forum
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Croke
Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
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8. INSPIRE
(refresher)
Infrastructure
for
Spa=al
Informa=on
in
Europe
• The
INSPIRE
Direc$ve
intends
to
increase
access
to
the
spa$al
informa$on
necessary
to
support
na$onal
and
Community
environmental
policy,
and
policies
affec$ng
the
environment.
• INSPIRE
is
being
developed
under
the
technical
coordina$on
of
the
Joint
Research
Centre
(JRC)
of
the
European
Commission
• An
INSPIRE
key
element
is
addressed
by
the
World
Wind
Europa
Challenge:
– Technical
specifica$ons
to
develop
interoperable
services
and
allow
discovery,
view,
transforma$on
and
download
of
informa$on
resources
h[p://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.
European
Data
Forum
Exhibi$on
Croke
Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013

9. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
University
Team
Project
• Build
an
applica$on
that
serves
the
INSPIRE
Direc$ve
and
uses
NASA's
open
source
virtual
globe
technology,
World
Wind.
To
do
this
it
must
establish
a
team
of
three
to
five
students,
from
a
single
university,
with
any
mix
of
undergraduate,
graduate
and
PhD
students.
Each
team
must
have
a
mentor.
•
The
mentor
can
be
a
professor,
an
associate
or
assistant
professor,
or
an
official
lecturer
at
the
same
university
as
the
team.
Together
they
decide,
design
and
build
a
geospa$al
applica$on
that
serves
local,
regional,
na$onal
or
interna$onal
interests
guided
by
the
INSPIRE
Direc$ve.
• We
welcome
the
UN
University
in
Bonn!
European
Data
Forum
Exhibi$on
Croke
Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
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10. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
Professional
Team
Project
• Small
businesses
can
compete
in
the
professional
category
with
the
same
criteria
as
in
the
University
project
category,
only
there
is
no
limit
on
team
members
or
any
mentor
requirement.
• This
is
a
great
opportunity
for
a
company
to
showcase
its
talents,
while
providing
premier
value
to
the
European
community.
European
Data
Forum
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Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
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11. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
WWEC
Relevance
in
the
EDF
Context
• To
manage
the
en$re
world
of
BIG
data
and
solu$ons
to
be
sustainable,
the
work
ahead
must
collabora.vely
address
common
geospa.al
issues.
• World
Wind
technology
provides
the
ideal
plajorm
for
collabora$ve
work
to
develop
increasingly
more
sophis$cated
tools
to
manage
and
analyse
spa$al
data
for
easier
sharing
and
smart
decision-­‐making.
European
Data
Forum
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Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
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12. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
Recent
developments
On
February
25
a
Skype
session
with
Fausto
Fra$celli
of
the
UN
Spa$al
Data
Infrastructure
(UNSDI)
Office
in
Geneva
and
NASA
World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
organisers,
P.
Hogan
NASA
ARC,
Prof.
M.
Brovelli
(Politecnico
di
Milano),
R.
De
Amicis
(Graphitech)
and
G.Remetey
(HUNAGI)
on
specifica$ons
and
expecta$ons.
Also,
dialogue
with
EUROGI
has
begun
along
with
an
invita$on
to
join
the
Europa
Challenge.
European
Data
Forum
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Park
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April
10,
2013
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13. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
Recent
developments
Presenta$on
at
Open
Source
Conference
in
the
Public
Sector
Madrid,
23
January
2013
by
Prof.
Maria.A.Brovelli
(PoliMi)
Presenta$on
at
"The
Role
of
Geoma$cs
in
Hydrogeological
Risk"
Padova,
27-­‐28
February
2013
by
Prof.
Maria.A.Brovelli
(PoliMi)
In
presenta$on
at
the
FedGeoData
Conference
Washington
DC
,
28
February,
2013
by
Patrick
Hogan
(NASA
Ames
RC)
UNGIWG
Plenary,
Istanbul,
28
Feb
–
1
March,
2013
Gabor
Remetey
(HUNAGI)
European
Data
Forum
Exhibi$on
Croke
Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
13

14. World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
Present
and
Next
dissemina=on
ac=ons
• European
Data
Forum
&
Exhibi$on
Dublin,
10
April,
2013
by
Gabor
Remetey
(HUNAGI)
• NASAWW
and
the
WWEC
FiRe
2013
(Future
in
Review:
conference
on
Digi%zing
of
the
Earth)
Laguna
Beach,
May
21-­‐24,
May
2013
by
Patrick
Hogan
(NASA
ARC)
• Engaging
Outdoor
User
Experience
Based
on
High
Fidelity
3D
Terrain
Representa$on
on
Mobile
Apps
at
COM.Geo,
San
Jose
2013
July
22
by
Raffaele
de
Amicis
(Graphitech)
• Maria
Antonia
Brovelli,
Giorgio
Zamboni,
2012,
Virtual
globes
for
4D
environmental
analysis,
Applied
Geoma$cs
September
2012,
Volume
4,
Issue
3,
pp
163-­‐172
•
The
NASA
World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
at
FOSS4G-­‐CEE
Bucharest,
17-­‐19
June,
2013
by
Maria
A.
Brovelli
(PoliMi)
European
Data
Forum
Exhibi$on
Croke
Park
Stadium
Dublin,
April
10,
2013
14

19.
World
Wind
Europa
Challenge
Spa$al
Data
Solu$ons
for
Europe
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
United
Na$ons
Geographical
Informa$on
Working
Group
(UNGIWG),
Istanbul
2013