Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC) is Helping Countries in Africa Report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)

Mubea, Kenneth; Killough, Brian; Seidu, Omar; Kimani, John; Mugambi, Benjamin; Kamara, Samuel

doi:10.1109/igarss39084.2020.9324156

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“…Throughout this study, we considered 250 texts focused on OFD (after title screening) that represented a diversity of research areas and aims but found that any claims of societal impact were speculative rather than based on observed and documented usage. For example, possible impacts included potential privacy violations [227,228], improvements in health research [229][230][231], or better monitoring of SDGs [232], yet evidence to back these claims was not presented.…”

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The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review

Cole,

Kormann,

Klebel

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, the relevance of research to society's problems, and public trust in research. Yet, measuring the societal impact of OS has proven challenging and synthesized evidence of it is lacking. This study fills this gap by systematically scoping the existing evidence of societal impact driven by OS and its various aspects, including Citizen Science (CS), Open Access (OA), Open/FAIR Data (OFD), Open Code/Software and others. Using the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews and searches conducted in Web of Science, Scopus and relevant grey literature, we identified 196 studies that contain evidence of societal impact. The majority concern CS, with some focused on OA, and only a few addressing other aspects. Key areas of impact found are education and awareness, climate and environment, and social engagement. We found no literature documenting evidence of the societal impact of OFD and limited evidence of societal impact in terms of policy, health, and trust in academic research. Our findings demonstrate a critical need for additional evidence and suggest practical and policy implications.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review

Cole,

Kormann,

Klebel

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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“…Swiss DC uses ODC [10] for efficient EO data analysis to monitor land degradation on a national scale, while [11] for forest monitoring of eastern Taiwan. The African ODC [12] provides a portfolio of services, such as crop phenology monitoring in Ghana, forest monitoring in Senegal, mangroves in Sierra Leone, and land degradation monitoring in Tanzania. The researchers [13] use ODC to monitor changes such as deforestation, urbanization, and coast evolution.…”

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Scalable Data Processing Platform for Earth Observation Data Repositories

Astsatryan

Lalayan

Giuliani

2023

SCPE

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Earth observation (EO) satellite data is essential to environmental monitoring. At a national and regional level, the open data cubes harness the power of satellite data by providing application programming interfaces and services to the end-users. The volume and the complexity of satellite observations are increasing, demanding novel approaches for data storing, managing, and processing. High-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platforms may improve Big EO data processing performance. However, it is necessary to consider several vital aspects for efficient and flexible EO data processing, such as the interoperability from cloud-HPC and EO data repositories, automatic provisioning and scaling of cloud-HPC resources, cost-effectiveness, support of new EO data formats and open-source packages, or linkage with data cube platforms. The article proposes a scalable EO data processing platform interoperable from cloud-HPC and EO data repositories. The platform enables linking any data repository supporting web coverage service or SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog Application Programming Interfaces (STAC-API), and any cloud or HPC resource supporting scheduling system API for providing access to the cluster backends.

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