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EO Ground Segment Evolution Reflections by VITO, Erwin Goor Workshop 2015, 24 th September 2015 ESA/ESRIN Frascati

Com ompa pany ny Profi ofile le VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium 750 employees, 26 nationalities, 140 mio € turnover in 2014 Remote Sensing unit: 80+ employees Energy Materials Chemistry Health Land use

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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) Exploitation Platform PROBA-V User Segment (incl. SPOT-VGT)

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 - …

Re Reflect ction on on Grou ound nd Segment ent Evoluti ution n Re Referen rence ce Paper er (1) (1) 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 

Re Reflect ction on on Grou ound nd Segment ent Evoluti ution n Re Referen rence ce Paper er (1) (1) 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 ’ …  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

Re Reflect ction on on Grou ound nd Segment ent Evoluti ution n Re Referen rence ce Paper er (2) (2) (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

Expe pecta ctations tions an and R d Rec ecommen ommenda dations tions 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