Geoportti
Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research
Geoportti is a cutting-edge digital research infrastructure (RI) that enables scientists to easily access geospatial data and geocomputing resources, such as tools, workflows and software libraries, through centralised high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure.
The Geoportti RI is highly interdisciplinary which is exceptional in the Finnish landscape. It serves fundamental geospatial sciences, including geographical information science, remote sensing, geography, geology, geodesy, and other Earth system sciences. It also offers essential resources for environmental, agricultural and forest sciences, atmospheric sciences, ecology, history and archaeology, and social sciences. Over the years, Geoportti has become an essential service environment for scientists in Finland.
The Geoportti consortium includes a combination of scientific excellence and technological skills in geographical information science. It gathers together Finnish research institutions (FGI, Luke, Syke) and universities (Aalto, UEF, UH, UTU) in the geospatial data science landscape, the National Archives of Finland, and CSC.
The role of CSC in the RI development project is to provide tools and data necessary for large-scale spatial data analysis on top of CSC computing services, including supercomputers and cloud services. Also, CSC is developing the Paituli spatial data download service by upgrading it to modern technology and adding new features for even better user experience.
In collaboration with Luke and the National Archive of Finland, CSC will add significant historic datasets to Paituli for open use and more datasets to Paituli STAC – spatio-temporal asset catalog. In addition, CSC is adding a spatial search to Fairdata Etsin to support finding datasets from a specific area as well as supporting partners in quantum computing related development tasks. Lastly, CSC has an importance role in educating the researchers to use the Geoportti computing and data services via, for example, courses, workshops and seminars.
This project has received funding from the Research Council of Finland under funding decision No 367654.
