Abstract
Abstract. With new Earth Observation (EO) and Geoinformation (GI) data sources increasingly becoming available, evermore new skills for data collection, processing, analysis and application are required. They are needed not only from scientists, but also from practitioners working in businesses, public and private EO*GI and related sectors. Aligning the continuously evolving skill sets demanded by the market and existing academic and vocational training programmes is not an easy task. Training programmes should be grounded in real needs of the sector and its labour market. To do this, it is necessary to identify the knowledge and skills needed, and map their interconnectivity in specific frameworks, which can later be used for the definition of new curricula or job-oriented learning paths. This paper presents a framework for the EO*GI sector, based on a Body of Knowledge (BoK), by creating a complete set of concepts with a semantic structure underneath that supports academia and industry. Creating and updating the BoK is supported by an editing tool, the Living Textbook and by experts in the EO*GI domain, who contributes to the BoK’s enrichment.
Highlights
The Earth Observation and Geographic Information/ Geoinformation sector (EO*GI) is a rapidly developing field
The first attempt to comprehensively describe the geospatial domain in the form of a set of concepts describing the basic theory, technical and applications topics was taken by the United States National Center for Geoinformation and Analysis (NCGIA) in order to develop the core curriculum required in the new discipline at that time, i.e. in the 1980s, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (Kemp, Goodchild, 1991)
The EO4GEO Body of Knowledge (BoK) gathers the knowledge of the EO*GI domain through a rich collection of concepts and their associated skills
Summary
The Earth Observation and Geographic Information/ Geoinformation sector (EO*GI) is a rapidly developing field. The project ‘Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geoinformation sector supporting Copernicus user uptake’ (EO4GEO) is an Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliance which aims to respond to the current and upcoming challenges in EO*GI education. EO4GEO brings together experts from academia and the public and private sectors to define and apply innovative solutions for education and training actions, based on a Body of Knowledge (BoK). We present the main characteristics of the BoK and its pivotal function as a reference for tools for education and training activities in the EO*GI sector. The main part of this paper focuses on the BoK implementation for the EO*GI sector (Section 4).
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