IZG, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Geoinformation of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, is a new Associated Partner of EO4GEO, involved in several projects to help with the improvement of EO/GI skills.
1) Short description of your organisation
Earth Observation research and teaching activities are a fundamental part of the Geomatics Research Group (GRG) of the Institute of Geography at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, where more than 70 scientists and 1,400 students are involved in the research and teaching of ecosystem services, in the relation of cognition and cartographic representation, in social disparities within cities, in the economic development of regions as well as in the transformation of the metropolitan region.
Remote sensing activities are mainly focussed on urban areas to identify urban building structures, urban green and blue infrastructure and valuable economic targets etc. and their changes…
The development of the EO4GEO BoK is supported by a network of experts. Becoming a contributing expert is easy. Register online and contribute to the BoK within the BoK editor: the Living Textbook. With regular intervals, the BoK will be publicly released and its content will be available to all tools within the EO4GEO BoK platform.
Authors: Rob Lemmens, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands; Agata Hoscilo, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland; Estefania Aguilar-Moreno, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Castelló de la Plana, Spain; Martyna Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena; Marc Olijslagers, KU Leuven, Belgium.
The EO4GEO project is building a community around Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information (GI) sectors, and participating as an EO4GEO BoK expert to support the elaboration of the Body of Knowledge (BoK) is the best way to start interacting.
Professionals and academics who have knowledge and experience in the EO and GI…
To unlock the vast knowledge captured in the Body of Knowledge (BoK) in practical (software) applications, the EO4GEO project offers the BoK software platform. It serves as a universal access point for use of the Body of Knowledge and provides online availability of the BoK, a uniform way to refer to and retrieve concepts from the BoK, programmatic access and default BoK-related software components. In doing so, the platform enables a plethora of uses of the BoK, ranging from integration with other BoKs or linked data sources, annotating resources with the BoK, to full-fledged BoK-based software development and application integration.
Authors: Sven Casteleyn, Aida Monfort-Muriach, Claudia Pérez-Pérez, Estefanía Aguilar-Moreno and Águeda Gómez-Cambronero from Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
To help to bridge the gap between supply and demand of education and training in the EO/GI sector, in the EO4GEO project, experts and practitioners are creating the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge (BoK). The BoK forms a consolidated account of the earth observation and geographic information field, expressed in terms of concepts, relationships between them, and skills. To date, the official BoK version contains over 900 concepts, 1100 relationships and 1800 skills, which together structure and capture…
The EO4GEO BoK is now publicly available. In EO4GEO, experts work together in a web environment to be able to enter their contributions in a central view, in order to see each other’s work and align it amongst each other. This ongoing work can now be publicly seen in our working applications on the Web.
Author: Rob Lemmens, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands
The first public release of the EO4GEO BoK is now available!
The EO4GEO BoK is constructed in the Living Textbook tool based on the principles of ontology, with well-defined concepts as building blocks and the relationships between them. It provides experts with a way to model, view and share their knowledge domain in a structural way. In the case of EO4GEO, it represents the domain of Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information (GI). In this way, we use the Living Textbook tool to…
The Body of Knowledge for Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information (GI), EO4GEO BoK, is publicly available, so what can be found there? — this article answers your questions.
Authors: Martyna Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena; Estefania Aguilar-Moreno and Sven Casteleyn, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Castelló de la Plana, Spain; Rob Lemmens, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands.
By its definition, the EO4GEO BoK is a formal description of the EO/GI domain represented by a complete set of concepts in a structured way, including the theories, methods and technologies that can be used by members of a discipline to guide their education and work practice (Olijslagers, 2019). The BoK defines what knowledge and skills are needed to complete jobs or tasks…
Based on the Body of Knowledge (BoK) and the Curriculum Design Tool (CDT), EO4GEO has developed a model for the creation of educational offers for Earth Observation and related curricula and designed a set of offers. After the business processes have been identified, the necessary knowledge and skills for possible present and future occupational profiles have been recognized as a platform for educational offer design.
Author: Željko Bačić — GEOF Zagreb
The educational offer design concept and foreseen process have been presented at the 2nd Earth Observation Summit (2–3 June 2020), virtually organised by the Faculty of Geodesy — University of Zagreb as an official event of the Croatian Presidency of the European Union Council. Around 900 participants had the opportunity to follow the sessions related to the development of the EO4GEO educational offer and discuss it. Being aware that one project can’t design a comprehensive educational offer for EO and related fields, a concept to design educational offers — which can serve as a…
A series of training actions for different case-based learning scenarios in the sub-sectors ‘integrated applications’, ‘smart cities’ and ‘climate change’ are designed to test the methods developed in the EO4GEO project.
[Written by Veronika Krieger — Spatial Services GmbH]
Since EO4GEO aims to close the skills gap between the supply and demand of education and training in the space/geodata sector, the methods developed in the project should of course also be tested in practical training. An analysis of the training actions then will show whether the learning objectives have been achieved and thus whether the EO4GEO method is effective.
Targets, training actions and providers
There are different tools and analyses from the EO4GEO project that support the development of training actions. The analysis of the occupational profiles and curricula showed different groups to which a training…
Authors: Martyna Stelmaszczuk-Górska (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) & Marc Olijslagers (KU Leuven)
Are you ready for the BoK for EO&GI?
Previous articles explained:
- What the Body of Knowledge (BoK) is and why is it important for the sector (link);
- How the work on the BoK extension is organized (link);
- And what the first results of the BoK development are (link).
The current version of the BoK has limited access, mainly used for testing of the different tools developed within EO4GEO. But we are happy to inform you that the first public version of the BoK for Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information (GI) will be released on the 21st…
[Authors: Estefanía Aguilar Moreno, Sven Casteleyn, Aida Monfort Muriach, — Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain]
EO4GEO is developing an ecosystem of tools, building on the rich EO/GI expert knowledge and skills available in the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge. The end user tools are targeting training and education providers, companies and organizations, and individuals as well. After intensive internal testing of the prototype tools, it is time for real users to explore them and validate their usefulness. In this article we get some answers from Sven Casteleyn, Universitat Jaume I of Castelló (Spain) regarding the tools’ development and next steps.
Sven, thank you for joining us. So, which are the pieces shaping the EO4GEO ecosystem of tools offered to the end user?
Mozaika, a new associated partner in EO4GEO, is a data company with a solid knowledge of satellite data access, management, description and use, meeting GIS and Earth Observation in many projects and partnerships.
1) What is your organisation currently doing for EO/GIS skills? (activities, partnerships, internal processes, etc.)
Mozaika has been engaged in projects involving GIS and Earth Observation for several years now. For this reason, our staff was signed up for online introductory courses of the GIS system, to ensure their basic knowledge of the argument. Additionally, we partner with ESRI Bulgaria in several projects and have hired the company to provide specialized tutorials for advanced GIS features, related to our R&D projects in…
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