Dubrovnik INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 – ”Leveraging interoperable
frameworks, artificial intelligence and citizen science for Sustainable
Development Goals”

This is the fifth year of the INSPIRE Hackathon, an integral part of the INSPIRE conference and workshops.
On Thursday 11th June 11:00 am CEST, the results from the hackathon
challenges will be presented showing what the teams have achieved in the
weeks of virtual collaboration. The workshop will conclude with an
announcement of the top three teams in an awards ceremony.

The INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is in line with the motto of the INSPIRE Conference – “Bringing sustainability and digitalisation together”. The hackathon is co-organised and supported by 10 partners: Plan4all, WeObserve, NextGEOSS, EO4agri, EUXDAT, Sieusoil, Stargate, SmartAgriHubs, AFarCloud, INSPIRE. The Dubrovnik INSPIRE hackathon organization is led by Plan4all and consists of 12 individual challenges this year.

Citizen science

The goal of the hackathon is to
promote collaboration and sharing of experience in the domain of spatial
data/services and citizen-science while showcasing their utilisation
and uptake to different application domains and themes. This includes
supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. The H2020 WeObserve
project (https://www.weobserve.eu/) that aims to create a sustainable
ecosystem for Citizen Observatories for environmental monitoring and
improve coordination between related regional, european and
international activities has been a main contributor.

4 out of 12 challenges are addressing different aspects of citizen science data:

Integrating INSPIRE with Citizen Science and EO authentication systems
Establish the connection of Citizen Observatories resources with central catalogue
Improve interoperability between methods for sharing in-situ and citizen-sourced data
Interchangeable map compositions in support of collaborative spatial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

There is an increasing interest in
developing digital ecosystems for the environment focussing not only on
data and infrastructures but also on algorithms, analytics, insights and
applications. Artificial intelligence is an area of technology that has
great potential to support the Sustainable Development Goals, as any
other area of society. In the Dubrovnik INSPIRE hackathon we have the
following challenges related to AI.

Using ML for detection of Land Use objects
Deep learning for weather forecast

Sustainable Development Goals – Food Security

Food security is one of the
Sustainable Development Goals that is easy to understand for us all. We
all need food. Food security is global in nature because the
agricultural sector and industry is global. The H2020 project EO4agri is
collecting input for their policy advise to the EC for future
development of agricultural infrastructure, data and platform
requirements and more. The following challenges will provide valuable
input to the EO4agri input as well as to the INSPIRE community.

EO4Agri Ideathon
Assessing phenological events (sowing/planting, emergence, end of season…) in agriculture based on Copernicus data
Copernicus and LPIS data combined in data cube services
Using Sentinel 1 data and IoT technology for analysis of soil moisture

Interoperable frameworks and open data

In general, the INSPIRE hackathons
are all about promoting use of data, particularly open data from
Copernicus and GEO, contributing to making the data interoperable
following standards like INSPIRE, OGC, ISO etc. In addition to the SDG
Food security we address also traffic and land use, both components in
several SDGs.

Traffic Modelling from web browser – use case of Františkovy Lázně
Extend OpenLandUse by selected Inspire Data Theme

Jury evaluation

More than 70 participants have
contributed to these 12 challenges and their results are evaluated by an
international experts jury.

Meet the jury members:

Jitka Faugnerova
is the INSPIRE Member State Contact point for the Czech Republic in the
Czech Environmental Information Agency, CENIA, where she is responsible
for practical implementation of INSPIRE Directive: support for data
providers, dissemination activities (organisation of technical and
legislative workshops for INSPIRE stakeholders, coordination of public
consultations to INSPIRE regulations) as well as for the transposition
of INSPIRE Directive into the Czech law. She graduated from the Faculty
of Civil Engineering of Czech Technical university. Jitka has had
several commissions of trust related to the INSPIRE directive.

Stefano Tamascelli
graduated from the school of Software Engineering of the Padua
University (Italy) in 2000. I has obtained a PhD degree in Artificial
Intelligence and Neural Networks from the University of Padua in 2003.
Stefano Tamascelli is the Managing Partner of XTeam Software Solutions,
has designed and developed over 100 commercial products for Amiga,
Windows, MacOs, Linux, Nintendo GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS, Android,
iOS, Flash, HTML5 and has worked on other projects/videogames as a
consultant for Xbox, Xbox360, XBox One Playstation 2, Playstation 3,
PlayStation 4 , PlayStationVita, Nintendo3DS, Nintendo Switch. He has
also lead all the research projects of the company, such as GeniuX Photo
EFX (award-winning photo editing software), 3D GeniuX, Extender
(augmented reality awnings for outdoor ), the Retaliation series for
Forgotten Empires, The Ballad Singer and have a consolidated experience
in H2020 projects with the participation on 6 projects ( 3D TuneIn,
SCENT, PLUGGY, MCI, MCI2, Victor ). Now he is working on artificial
intelligence for the dementia’s study and to improve the listen
experience of people with hearing loss / cochlear implants.

Alexander Kotlev
is an experienced researcher with a long track record of projects and
research interests spanning across multiple domains such as IoT, citizen
science, data interoperability, standard-based web services,
spatio-temporal data and GIS. Alex joined the JRC in 2012 where he is
working on the technological enablers for data-driven innovation across
multiple domains and levels of governance. Alex has hands-on experience
in the use of open source and proprietary ETL tools, digital mapping
technologies, spatial databases, Python and OGC Standards. He has a
strong education background and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in
GISCience (Ph.D.)

REGISTER for the event HERE Thursday 11th June 11:00 am CEST

Dubrovnik INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 – Invitation to the final event