Speaker

Name: Games for Health Europe Conference
Start: 2025-03-31T09:00
End: 2025-04-01T18:00

Speaker Info

Biography: Marco studied physics and received a doctorate in experimental physics from Leiden University in 1996. He worked for the European Space Agency developing technology for future space missions before he founded cosine in 1998. cosine develops measurement systems starting from the end user's needs up to processing the data into information for the end user. Under Marco's leadership, cosine has developed measurement technology for astronomy from space, including optics for the largest X-ray space telescopes, planetary science, including instruments on spacecraft that landed on asteroids, and Earth observation with advanced optical systems, highly integrated and miniaturized and with processing power, including AI, sufficient to generate information already on board. He is also a physics professor at Leiden University, teaching optics and science business, and promotes collaboration between public science and companies, helping speeding up to make new discoveries available to society.

Summary: With remote sensing from space we are generating huge amounts of data and this amount is rapidly increasing. These data contain a wealth of information that is extremely valuable for humankind, but it is difficult to assess. On a daily basis individual people find remarkable new information in remote sensing data, for example complete cities under the forests in South America. In some cases there are sufficient examples to program a computer to detect these features, either with AI or traditional data analysis, but human beings can find unknown or rare features that can bring huge value to society. Gaming can help to use the inventivity, creativity and understanding of context to improve the use of remote sensing. Marco will show how serious gaming for remote sensing can find rare cultural artefacts, improve safety, solve crimes and improve air quality.