ICARE Data and services center

ICARE
Observation and environment, lasers and their applications Platform

ICARE is one of the 4 centers of AERIS, the French Data Infrastructure for Atmosphere. Our mission is to support research in atmospheric and climate sciences and to provide the scientific community with services to facilitate the exploitation of "aerosols, clouds, radiation, and water cycle in the atmosphere" data, in particular the data from Earth observation space missions. ICARE allows to exploit the huge volume of data, to combine the various observational data to derive geophysical parameters and to provide easy online access to the products. We work in collaboration with international space agencies (CNES, NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, ISRO, etc.) and scientific experts in the field and participate in numerous regional, national and international collaborative projects.

Informations

Scientific director: Jérome Riedi

https://www.icare.univ-lille.fr/
https://twitter.com/AerisData

Bâtiment M3-extension, Avenue Carl Gauss
Campus Cité Scientifique, Université de Lille
59650 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ

Mots-clés

Satellite observation, atmosphere, climate, clouds, aerosols, satellites, Earth, space, environment, space mission, radiation

Localisation

  • Exploitation of "aerosols, clouds, radiation, and water cycle in the atmosphere" data from Earth observation space missions and atmospheric observation networks
  • Processing of data from space missions in real time
  • Rapid and massive reprocessing of long temporal archive
  • Data collection and storage
  • Dissemination of data
  • Development of data visualization and analysis tools
  • Development of operational processing chains for space missions or observation networks

Examples of projects:

  • Satellite scientific ground segments PARASOL, CALIPSO et Megha-Tropiques
  • Archiving and distribution of aerosol products SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible & Infrared Imager)
  • Development of the ORAURE database and tools to access and visualize data
  • Collection of data from agencies
  • Archiving/Distribution of data
  • Scientific data production (near real-time data processing)
  • Provision of a computing cluster (with online data access)
  • Development of data visualization and analysis tools 
  • Development of operational processing lines
  • Data dissemination (mass and customized dissemination)
  • Validation support
  • User assistance (tools and cluster)

We have a dedicated IT infrastructure for storing and processing data from space missions and atmospheric observation networks. This infrastructure includes:

  • Massive on-line storage system (7 PB capacity) and off-line archiving (Quantum Scalar library) 
  • Production system (blade center) for operational processing and massive reprocessing (1400 cores)
  • Processing and analysis cluster dedicated to users (front-end server + 5 computing nodes) 
  • Dedicated servers for distribution (ftp / http), analysis (JupyterHub), development (Gitlab) and storage (cloud service) services

Private
HYGEOS, GRASP-SAS, SPASCIA,

Academic
LGGE (Université Grenoble Alpes), LaMP (Université Clermont Auvergne), UPMC, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Infrastructure de recherche nationale Data Terra, European Spatial Agency (ESA), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (USA), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (India), German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany), Instituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale (IMAA) (Italy)

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