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<div><font color="#1F497D">Dear MEDIN colleagues,</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Forwarding the call for abstracts below in case anyone is interested. Deadline is tomorrow!</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Best wishes,</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Clare</font></div>
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<b>From:</b> Kokkinaki, Alexandra <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 January 2018 11:21<br>
<b>To:</b> NOC Staff <NOC_Staff@noc.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> EGU 2018 deadline approaches</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Dear colleagues, </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">The deadline for the European Geosciences Union 2018 (<a href="http://www.egu2018.eu/"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.egu2018.eu/</u></font></a>) is tomorrow, 10 January 2018. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to the following session:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b>ESSI2.6 - Web-based Exchange and Processing of Environmental Data</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Conveners: Lars Bernard , Lorenzo Bigagli , Simon Jirka , Alexandra Kokkinaki , Joan Masó , Lionel Menard</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Link: <a href="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/28034"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/28034</u></font></a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b>Session Scope:</b> The current increase of data in number and volume comes along with an increase in heterogeneity. Various file formats, databases and APIs exist hindering an easy access, exchange and union of data sets for a reproducible
and fast meaningful analysis. These issues also reach to the higher level of cloud computing, where different APIs are in place. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">To overcome these limitations, several standardisation efforts are undertaken leading to a bunch of standards such as OGC, ISO, SDMX, W3C/IETF. While more data sets become available as web resources, it becomes evident that also standardized
processing of this data needs to be available as web resources as the pure volume of the data is too large to entirely transfer it to local machines for the analysis. Web-(pre)-processing that takes place “close” to the data allows to crunch the data before
the indepth analysis reducing the data and processing load. This session will shed light on recent developments and best practices to web-based exchange and processing of environmental data.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Topics include: </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- Web-based geoprocessing</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- distributed geoprocessing</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- organisation and storage of large environmental datasets</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- Sensor Web technology</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- Model Web implementation/application examples</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- processing workflow composition and automatization</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- RESTful APIs</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- distributed event detection</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- discovery of data and processing tools</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- tools for statistical analysis</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">- uncertainty modelling and communication for sensors and processing streams</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b>Deadline for Abstract submission is January 10, 2018 </b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b>Please feel free to forward this invitation to any people you think may be interested</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">All the best,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Alexandra Kokkinaki , Lars Bernard , Lorenzo Bigagli , Simon Jirka , Joan Masó , Lionel Menard</font></div>
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