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Energy and Environment
ICARE Data and services center (ICARE)
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.
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Jérome Riedi
Scientific manager
Bâtiment M3-extension, Avenue Carl Gauss
Campus Cité Scientifique, Université de Lille
59650 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ
https://www.icare.univ-lille.fr/
Key figures
• More than 350 ingested products, 950 derived geophysical products• 136 million files referenced
• 126 servers, 2400 computing cores (operational processing, user cluster, services)
• ~ 3,400 registered users (national ~ 21% and international ~ 79%) including ~ 200 for access to the computing cluster (70% of national users)
• ~ 7000 TB of usable volume for online data storage
Staff
Total staff : 16
Skills
• 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
• 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
Example(s) 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 🡭
• Archiving and distribution of aerosol products SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible & Infrared Imager) 🡭
• Development of the ORAURE database and tools to access and visualize data 🡭
Collaborations/Partners/Scientific clients
National:
LGGE (Université Grenoble Alpes), LaMP (Université Clermont Auvergne), UPMC, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
International:
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)
LGGE (Université Grenoble Alpes), LaMP (Université Clermont Auvergne), UPMC, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
International:
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)
Collaborations/Partners/Private Clients
HYGEOS, GRASP-SAS, SPASCIA
Applications sectors
- Science / Research
Services provided
• 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)
• 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)
Consulting services
We provide consulting services related to all our areas of expertise.
• 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
Equipments
| Nom | Modèle | Marque |
|---|---|---|
| Massive on-line storage system (7 Po capacity) and off-line archiving (LTO tape 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 broadcast (ftp / http), analysis (JupyterHub), development (Gitlab) and storage (cloud service) services |
Affiliated institutions / organisations
Groups/Networks/Federations
Labellisations
Regional strategic areas of activity
- Energy and Environment
- Observation, monitoring and management of the environment