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EO Ground Segment Evolution Reflections by

VITO, Erwin Goor Workshop 2015, 24th September 2015 ESA/ESRIN Frascati

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Expert rtise se and activitie vities s relevan vant t for futu ture re EO Ground und Segme ments nts and Servi vices ces (1) PROBA-V User Segment (incl. SPOT-VGT) Exploitation Platform

Expert rtise se and activitie vities s relevan vant t for futu ture re EO Ground und Segme ments nts and Servi vices ces (2) Supported by several R&D – operational - capacity building projects

Food security – Agriculture – Re-insurance – Biodiversity – Coastal zone management - …

VITO supports the EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy … some reflections

• Important R&D work is needed on ‘interoperable processing services/data analytics

– API for invoking processing’ and ‘porting applications to another Exploitation Platform’  Focus on services to used by ‘application developers’, combining services from different MEPs/TEPs/Sentinel Coll. GS/…  Respect heterogeneous approaches (Hadoop – HPC)  Focus at two levels: ‘Research’ & ‘Develop-Operate’  Coordination & support by ESA can drive collaboration

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VITO supports the EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy … some reflections

• Significant R&D work is needed on ‘interoperable processing services/data analytics

– API for invoking processing’ and ‘porting applications to another Exploitation Platform’

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• Focus on ease-of-use regarding interoperability/federation within the ‘enabling

element’. E.g. data discovery/access/processing/analysis, federated UM  these should be adopted as well by application developers & end-users, not only by ESA/EC/Space Agencies

• Some initiatives do exist today & we can today start the job of building a

federation of ‘processing platforms’ (TEPs – MEPs) Further R&D actions can be defined/supported by existing platforms with a clear understanding of the challenges

• More intensive international collaboration is key! TEPs are one example.
• How to bring innovation from ESA R&D projects into MEPs/TEPs in an optimal

way?  international collaboration, focus on open-source (?), pro-active steering of collaboration, …

• How to maximise re-use
• Stimulate the use of MEPs/TEPs into ESA/EC projects – clear model on service costs

needed

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(possible) Contributions VITO

 PROBA-V operations – Data preservation of SPOT-VEGETATION

• Reprocess PROBA-V archive: improve cloud detection, CF compliancy, …
• Reprocess SPOT-VEGETATION archive: Improvements on continuity with PROBA-V & others

 PROBA-V Mission Exploitation Platform (MEP)

• Extent PROBA-V User Segment with an operational Exploitation Platform

 Web-based & cloud consoles / Data analytics & Application development/operations  stimulating innovation & added-value generation by all types of users.

• Key requirement: FAST access to data for different use cases
• Prepare continuity after PROBA-V by daily global land coverage at 100 m,

in convoy with Sentinel-2  Valuable for thematic services (e.g. TEP) in global change, food security, ... . E.g. Sentinel-2

processing services are prepared by VITO, strong network in Africa – South America - China

• From MEP PROBA-V and R&D projects, contribute to
• (1) improvements on federated processing services
• (2) easy-to-use Web services for data discovery/access
• (3) federated user management
• Close collaboration with Sentinel Coll. GS (only limited data @VITO) 

act as a node within federated platform

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• A European network of EO/community platform – modular architecture

requires intense collaboration: clear steering of this process for all aspects is a challenge:

• Technical aspects of interoperability
• Economic aspects of interoperability
• Remote sensing expertise
• Thematic expertise

! Communication between different stakeholders (ICT – EO – Thematic) requires on- the-job experience with prototypes.

• Exploitation of synergies requires coordination & visibility on contributions

from different ESA/EC/national programmes: R&D + operational infrastructures

• How can we (as non-GSCB member) optimally contribute to ESA in its role as

‘technological and technical system architect of an EU EO ground-segment’?

Thank you …

Erwin Goor VITO, Belgium erwin.goor@vito.be +32.493.514274