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What for ? Helping the Earth Observation (EO) community to tackle the challenges coming from the digital economy Supporting EARSC initiative for creating a European MarketPlace for EO Services* Promoting INFOrmation as a Service (INFOaaS) based on Earth Observation data and services Bringing value to public and private end-users able and willing to pay such INFOaaS services * http://earsc.org/file_download/308/EARSC+PP+-+Creating+a+European+marketplace+for+EO+services.pdf
Background & Rationale Initiated at the 4th Ground Segment Coordination Body (GSCB) Workshop on the 24th of September 2015 at ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) * Open to European industry stakeholders addressing Earth Observation (EO) Services, willing to contribute and sharing the same objectives Working together overcoming fragmentation, at the EU level Joining European forces : EO Services (EARSC) and ICT (BDVA, EGI, Helix Nebula) Demonstrating that European industry is able to deliver to public and private entities « INFOrmation as a Service » (INFOaaS) derived from Earth Observation Leveraging €B 7+ EU & ESA investments related to Copernicus & Sentinels Testing value chain(s) and business model(s) Pulling the market by stimulating demand, focusing on public and private end-users able and willing to subscribe to paying services * https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/2066722/19-GSCB-Workshop-Session-2-Presentation-CloudEO-AG.pdf
High level Workflow
Data Hub Sentinels Members Partners Commercial IaaS R&D+I IaaS MarketPlace Tier Providers / Brokers for EO Services & INFOaaS Provider C Provider A Provider B Broker D Platform Tier DaaS, PaaS, EO Services & INFOaaS Providers Data Hub Sentinels Members Partners Infrastructure Tier Providers / Brokers for ICT Services (IaaS) Commercial IaaS R&D+I IaaS ....
Information providers & brokers (INFOaaS) MarketPlace Tier Information providers & brokers (INFOaaS) Front-end Promoting Brokering Selling COMMON INTERFACES Back-end Certifying Order Processing Delivering & Billing Reporting & Business Intelligence Platform Tier
Copernicus Core Services MarketPlace Tier COMMON INTERFACES Platform Tier EO Services Providers Bespoke Services M2M Services Expertise Integrated Platforms Platform Providers Toolbox Software as a Service Platform as a Service Docker Container Open Source COTS OpenMOLE Data Tier Copernicus Core Services Data as a Service Commercial Data Open Data Infrastructure Tier