Rasters Revealed 2021

Rasters Revealed is a one-day conference about the use of raster datasets hosted by Alastair Graham of Geoger. Many conferences are themed around specific market sectors, and end up presenting on very similar topics. This meeting seeks to do something a little different!

The conference uses raster data as a common thread around which to share knowledge and experience of data generation, management, dissemination and processing methods, all of which are applied and required across the large range of market sectors and disciplines (commercial and academic) that utilise raster datasets. The meeting focuses on sharing experiences of using these data and will highlight areas where disciplines could learn from each other to make processing, management and data use more efficient. The attendees will hear about potentially new methods and techniques, and will have the opportunity to make new contacts.

Rasters Revealed is targeted at people who might do some or all of the following:

• develop software for processing raster data;
• store and manage terrabytes of raster data;
• have issues moving such data across networks;
• use raster data on a daily basis; or are looking to start using raster data;
• are a proprietary data or software provider;
• are a proponent and supplier of open raster data and associated software;
• use rasters in terrestrial environments;
• are interested in elevation;
• use marine-based or atmospheric raster data; or
• do a myriad other things linked to rasters!

Rasters Revealed 2021 has the following confirmed sessions and speakers:

Data workflow

• Greg Stewart from Alba Orbital speaking on “Building platforms for data capture”
• Phil Cooper from Amazon Web Services speaking on “AWS GroundStation and more"
• Greg Giuliani from University of Geneva; GRID-Geneva speaking on “Large volumes of various types of data and users: the Swiss Data Cube”

Data applications

• Andy Tatum from University of Southampton; Worldpop speaking on “An Overview of WorldPop”
• Rebecca Bennett from Pushing the Sensors speaking on “Learning Lidar - Challenges of delivering and accessing CPD in a pandemic”

Dealing with Data

• Jakub Nowosad from the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University speaking on “Describing composition and configuration of patterns in categorical rasters”
• Sheikh Fakhar Khalid from Sensat speaking on “Active Landcover Prediction using Adaptive Neural Nets”
• Iván Sánchez from IvOrtega speaking on “Multispectral WebGL”

Lightning Talks!

• Nick Walker from eOsphere Limited speaking on “Using satellite data to build resilience for herding communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan”
• Avi Putri Pertiwi from German Aerospace Center (DLR) speaking on “The Global Seagrass Project”
• Emily Selwood from the Satellite Applications Catapult speaking on “The Tiffhax open source project”
• Tomas Holderness from Addresscloud speaking on “Serverless GeoTiffs”
• Charley Hill-Butler from Coventry University speaking on “Multi-Sensor Hazard Assessment: Exploring the Use of EO for Remote Assessment of Natural Hazards"
• Laxmi Goparaju from Ecology and Natural History Foundation, Mirzapur, India speaking on “The urban heat Island effect”

State of EO Panel Discussion with:

• Hayley Evers-King from EUMETSAT
• Aravind Ravichandran from Terrawatch
• Joe Morrison from Azavea and
• Alastair Graham from Geoger