Final Report Summary - CROSS DRIVE (Collaborative Rover Operations and Planetary Science Analysis System based on Distributed Remote and Interactive Virtual Environments)
Executive Summary:
CROSS DRIVE stands for “Collaborative Rover Operations and Planetary Science Analysis System based on Distributed Remote and Interactive Virtual Environments” and aims at creating the foundations for collaborative distributed virtual workspaces for European space science. Space exploration missions have produced huge data sets of potentially immense value for research as well as planning and operating future missions. However, current expert teams, data, and tools are fragmented leaving little scope for unlocking this value through collaborative activities.
The question of how to improve data analysis and exploitation of space-based observations can be answered by providing and standardising new methods and systems for collaborative scientific visualization and data analysis, space mission planning, and mission operation. This will not only allow scientists to work together, with each other's data and tools, but importantly to do so between missions. The proposed collaborative workspace encompasses various advanced technological solutions to coordinate central storage, processing and 3D visualization strategies in collaborative immersive virtual environments to support space data analysis.
Three case studies have been carried out and demonstrated the utility of the workspaces for European space science: Mars atmospheric data analysis, rovers landing site characterization, and rover target selection during its real-time operations. The use cases exploited state-of-the-art science data sets. They were collected in view of the ESA ExoMars 2016 TGO and 2018/2020 rover missions’ scenarios.
Impact on beneficiaries had been maximised both through providing an expandable backbone infrastructure and three levels of workspace for: scientists directly engaged, other external scientists, and the public.
Project Context and Objectives:
Please note that the contents of the Final Publishable Summary Report can be found in the attachment.
Project Results:
Please note that the contents of the Final Publishable Summary Report can be found in the attachment.
Potential Impact:
Please note that the contents of the Final Publishable Summary Report can be found in the attachment.
List of Websites:
The CROSS DRIVE project web site was set up during M1 of the project and can be viewed at:
http://www.cross-drive.eu
The web site aims at providing a platform to disseminate the results of the CROSS DRIVE project as well as to encourage collaboration among the scientific and research communities. For that, two main sections were developed in parallel, the Public Portal and the Scientific Community Portal.
The web site is designed, managed, and maintained by Prof. Terrence Fernando from University of Salford, United Kingdom.
CROSS DRIVE stands for “Collaborative Rover Operations and Planetary Science Analysis System based on Distributed Remote and Interactive Virtual Environments” and aims at creating the foundations for collaborative distributed virtual workspaces for European space science. Space exploration missions have produced huge data sets of potentially immense value for research as well as planning and operating future missions. However, current expert teams, data, and tools are fragmented leaving little scope for unlocking this value through collaborative activities.
The question of how to improve data analysis and exploitation of space-based observations can be answered by providing and standardising new methods and systems for collaborative scientific visualization and data analysis, space mission planning, and mission operation. This will not only allow scientists to work together, with each other's data and tools, but importantly to do so between missions. The proposed collaborative workspace encompasses various advanced technological solutions to coordinate central storage, processing and 3D visualization strategies in collaborative immersive virtual environments to support space data analysis.
Three case studies have been carried out and demonstrated the utility of the workspaces for European space science: Mars atmospheric data analysis, rovers landing site characterization, and rover target selection during its real-time operations. The use cases exploited state-of-the-art science data sets. They were collected in view of the ESA ExoMars 2016 TGO and 2018/2020 rover missions’ scenarios.
Impact on beneficiaries had been maximised both through providing an expandable backbone infrastructure and three levels of workspace for: scientists directly engaged, other external scientists, and the public.
Project Context and Objectives:
Please note that the contents of the Final Publishable Summary Report can be found in the attachment.
Project Results:
Please note that the contents of the Final Publishable Summary Report can be found in the attachment.
Potential Impact:
Please note that the contents of the Final Publishable Summary Report can be found in the attachment.
List of Websites:
The CROSS DRIVE project web site was set up during M1 of the project and can be viewed at:
http://www.cross-drive.eu
The web site aims at providing a platform to disseminate the results of the CROSS DRIVE project as well as to encourage collaboration among the scientific and research communities. For that, two main sections were developed in parallel, the Public Portal and the Scientific Community Portal.
The web site is designed, managed, and maintained by Prof. Terrence Fernando from University of Salford, United Kingdom.
