Felipe Carlos
Felipe Carlos is a master's degree in Applied Computing on Reproducible Earth Observation Science from Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), with experience in web development (Python and ReactJS) and cloud infrastructure. Felipe also has experience processing, manipulating, and managing spatio-temporal data (data cubes, image time-series) in R and Python programming languages.
Currently, Felipe is a GEO Knowledge Hub team member, collaborating in the development of the digital library and its various modules.
Sessions
We face no precedent crises on our Planet, like deforestation, climate change, land degradation, and many other challenges. In this context, due to Open Science practices, like Open Data and Open Knowledge, Earth Observation (EO) Applications have emerged as powerful tools, providing valuable insights about our Planet. These insights empower us to understand our current crisis and its solutions, serving as a base for informed policies and decision-making.
Although EO applications' growth and popularity were based on open practices, they currently face significant challenges, such as a lack of reusability, knowledge transfer, and capacity building. These problems reduce their use and potential.
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is a global partnership of governments, institutions, and organizations created to enhance the use of EO Applications in policy development and decision-making. To support this vision and face all challenges related to EO Applications, the GEO Community developed the GEO Data Sharing and Data Management Principles, a guideline and best practices to ensure that data is open and accessible. In 2021, GEO embraced the Open Knowledge Statement, a commitment to promote sharing and using knowledge.
As a result of efforts and willingness to foster open data and open knowledge, empower people, enhance sharing and reusability, and increase the impact of EO applications, the GEO Community created the GEO Knowledge Hub (GKH). The GKH is an innovative, cloud-based, and open-source digital library designed to facilitate the preservation and sharing of open and closed EO Applications. Leveraging the power of InvenioRDM, the GKH provides many features, including powerful search methods, preservation capabilities (e.g., Digital Object Identifier), closed applications marketplace, and curation tools.
The GKH is vital for numerous institutions and initiatives within the GEO Community, such as the EuroGEO, GEOGLAM, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). As a result, several open and closed applications are available in the GKH as reusable and well-documented content. To empower people to use this content, we started developing capacity-building webinars, showing the applications available in the GKH, how they can be reused, and whom to contact for assistance. By developing these actions, we enhance the impact of the knowledge shared and expand the capacity-building activities. Consequently, we encourage people to share new content and create a circular economy.
In this talk, we will share and discuss our strategies with the community and our impact on the GEO Knowledge Hub as a central place for EO Applications, knowledge, and capacity-building content.