Today marked the fifth edition of #5BurgosI40, organized by the DIHBU Digital Innovation Hub Industry 4.0 of Burgos — a technology forum that brings together companies, research centers, and public institutions to share experiences on digitalization and advanced technologies applied to industry.
Dr. Juan Carlos Antuña, Technical Director of IT Infrastructure at GRASP Spain, presented GRASP’s joint work with the Supercomputing Center of Castilla y León (SCAYLE) on massive satellite data processing for air quality monitoring. This initiative builds upon the collaboration recently announced in our press release.
The use case addresses the challenge of managing extremely large datasets from programs such as Copernicus and EUMETSAT, which require global coverage and detailed surface characterization (including BRDF and BPDF parameters). With SCAYLE’s support, the processing of two years of satellite observations was reduced from six months to just one month, resulting in a global surface dataset for 2019 and 2020 at 2 km resolution. The final product, validated against established references such as NASA’s MCD43, provides a valuable resource for applications in air quality, climate monitoring, and environmental analysis.
