LEOWorks A Software Tool for Teaching Earth Observation

17/06/2009 Steffen Dransfeld

2nd Workshop on Education and Training June 16 - 17, 2009

Presentation Outline
Story of LEOWorks 3 so far Conceptual motivation behind LEOWorks 3 Current target groups of LEOWorks 3 Examples of different case studies using LEOWorks 3 Going Open-Source: LEOWorks 4 New functionality New target groups Timeline of project LEOWorks 4 and World Heritage Site Monitoring

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LEOWorks 3 Story
History of Eduspace www.esa.int/eduspace
Eduspace initiative based on a 98 Eurisy workshop on education Carried out under umbrella of Eurisy by ESA and by some of its national and industrial Partners: Danish Ministry of Education, representing the final users (professors and teachers) Norwegian Space Centre (NSC), providing also the initial nucleus from the SAREPTA Web Site (which was cosponsored by ESA PR a long time before) British National Space Centre (BNSC), contributing to the initial project proposal and towards funding Eurimage, providing access to Landsat imagery Geospace, Austria, providing access to their The Alps from Space high-resolution satellite database. Transferred in 2002 from Eurisy to ESA
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LEOWorks, the missing piece

Eduspace EO theory, images, project suggestions to schools LEOWorks 3 Full Case Studies using a simple Image Processing Software

LEOWorks lets students discover and play with EO imagery bringing Eduspace to live !
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LEOWorks for Who ?

Secondary school teachers who want to incorporate EO into their curricula Secondary school students to extend on what they have learned in class University students pursuing related academic studies Access to website www.esa.int/eduspace is free Registration needed for access to image database and LEOWorks, but soon to be removed ABOVE ALL, LEOWorks is for ANYONE starting to use EO data Users have a fast learning curve due to its simplicity Simple but yet effective tool to study local sites from space ! as that it is ideal for the use in monitoring World Heritage Sites

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LEOWorks 3 Overview
Learning Earth Observation-Works Image Processing software IDL based IP software

Functionality covering common EO toolbox functions

Image manipulation (filtering, compositions, animations, etc) Geocorrecting images Calibrating images Classifying images according to selfdefined themes GIS tool to produce GIS vector layers Etc

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Examples of LEOWorks 3
Registration and Geometric Correction of images

Explaining didactically the use of Ground Control Points in satellite imagery

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Change Detection Buenos Aires

Change Detection over Buenos Aires, measured from two Landsat images acquired in 1987 and 2000

Easy-to-use but effective GIS Tool

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Multispectral Image Classification

Classification of Hyperspectral Image (PROBA/CHRIS, acquired over the coastal region of Santa Rosa)

Classification Algorithm

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Anapurna 1 case Study

Landsat TM image of Anapurna I mountain

Creating false colour composites to assess glacial extent using LEOWorks

Measuring length of moraine using measurement tool in LEOWorks

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LEOWorks 4 and Open Source

Indeed Open Source Software OSS is Good !
extremely efficient way to share/modify code extremely efficient way to spread software usage

Geospatial Software community is actively pursuing the OSS philosophy

Creation of the Open Geospatial Consortium, a voluntary Standards Organisation http://www.opengeospatial.org/ As a result we have the OpenGIS specifications commonly adhered to.

Increasing Java usage to exploit synergy of code sharing and platform independence OSS&Java natural choice for LEOWorks 4, also to benefit from ESA BEAM and NEST Toolboxes
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LEOWorks 4 and Open Source

Indeed Open Source Software OSS is Good !
extremely efficient way to share/modify code extremely efficient way to spread software usage

Geospatial Software community is actively pursuing the OSS philosophy

Creation of the Open Geospatial Consortium, a voluntary Standards Organisation http://www.opengeospatial.org/ As a result we have the OpenGIS specifications commonly adhered to.

Increasing Java usage to exploit synergy of code sharing and platform independence OSS&Java natural choice for LEOWorks 4, also to benefit from ESA BEAM and NEST Toolboxes
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LEOWorks 4 and BEAM & NEST

Scientific Toolbox for primarily passive data Scientific Toolbox for primarily SAR data

Other OSS available

Combining the basic routines from both science tools to produce a teaching tool for Schools, Universities AND ALL EO NEWCOMERS !
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All an educational EO Tool should be able to do and more ! Satellite products to be ingested from: ENVISAT, ERS, SPOT, LandSat, ALOS (PRISM and PALSAR), COSMO-Skymed, TerraSAR-X, RadarSat and future ESA Sentinel data Extensive Radar and Optical data processing tools Additional University-Level classification algorithms Orthorectification and multi-sensor fusion to correct terrain distortions and improve coverage Extensive GIS Tool to create, display and analyse vector layers Fully .kml compatible to add to growing educational use of Google Earth and MORE
http://www.asrc.ro/en/proiecte/details/LEOWorks
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LEOWorks 4 What can it actually do ?

LEOWorks 4 Timeline
Software Developers: Advanced Studies Research Centre ASRC, Bukarest Project Kickoff September 2008 Total duration of contract 3 years Major releases every 6 months with added functionality Beta testers needed and VERY welcome ! write to me (steffen.dransfeld@esa.int) to join First major release expected end of June software implementation
Tutorials accompanying LEOWorks 4 developed alongside

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LEOWorks 4 so far
Some screenshots of the look so far

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Thanks a lot

for your Attention ! Please write to me if you would like further information steffen.dransfeld@esa.int

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