The Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory’s Data Pipeline and Current Developments

Abstract

MDEO, or The Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory, is a NATO for peace sponsored project fully deployed in the faculty of sciences in Tangier, Morocco. It consists mainly of a ground station connected to a cluster in LIST (Laboratory of Informatics, Systems, and Telecommunications). The objective of this initiative is to ensure reliable weather and pollution monitoring and help us better understand and warn against environmental disasters using a wide range of spatiotemporal variables, applying varying techniques from remote sensing to data science and making use of the Big environmental data it receives from multiple satellites in real/near-real time. In this paper, we present a complete overview of the MDEO project and its connected entities, we describe the data processes and components of the full pipeline, and finally, we evaluate some of the current developments and use cases of the data MDEO provides to infer pollution and visualise measurements in Morocco.