The University of Iceland is a research led state university, situated in the heart of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. The University employs over 1 300 people, and has over 14 000 students of which there are more than 500 PhD students. In 2018, the University of Iceland was ranked among the 201-250 of the best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education Supplement.
In the DEEP-EST project, the University of Iceland's team provided data analytics applications on Earth Science data sets such as large hyperspectral natural and man-made land cover data and huge point clouds. Highly-parallel clustering, classification, and Deep Learning neural network (DNN) algorithms were deployed and adapted to the DEEP-EST hardware.
Being part of the University's School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science contributes to the DEEP-EST project expertise in the fields of parallel and scalable machine learning, statistical data mining, and distributed and high-performance computing.
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