Big Data and data quality
Big data offers great opportunities for research but also requires new approaches for managing it efficiently, rigorously and accurately, all depending on the particularities of associated thematic information. On the other hand, the quality of the alphanumeric and spatial information of the available data must be analyzed. It is necessary to verify that access, maintenance and propagation of metadata is adequate and consistent.
Featured news July, 3rd 2018
CREAF’s role in the European strategy of fostering citizen observatories for environmental monitoring CREAF is heading a community of practice that is leading the first citizen science interoperability experiment of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The goal is for citizen science projects to adopt international standards with a view to data being shared and reused. A citizen Science working group. Credit: Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland (CC BY 2.0).
Highlighted project Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Providing Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables from satellite data. Principal investigator: Aleixandre Verger Budget: 68.025,00 â‚Ź Entity: EU Period: 2016-2018