1. Joost van Bemmelen/Guido Colangeli October 2017
State of the Art
Joost van Bemmelen/Guido Colangeli October 2017

3. From GCI towards GEOSS Platform
Focus on GEOSS Portal
Status Checker
Yellow Pages

4. GEOSS Portal Signature
1. Map-based user-interface
Self-explaining/Intuitive
Interactive
Guidance
2. Simple and Extended Search
3. (Smart) filters: Generic,
Community-dependent, Data-dependent
(, Landsat, )
4. Information and visualisation services
5. Personalisation/Profiling (My WorkSpace) 6.
7. Base maps selection (CartoDB, ESRI, MapBox, OpenStreetMap)
8. Public-private partnership
(active hurricanes, tropical storms, etc.) 4

5. User Centric-Approach
Disaster
Resilience
Water resource
management
Climate
DIAS - Copernicus Data and Information Access Services
Mission Exploitation
Platforms
Considering various user communities
2. Focus on reusability by various communities depending
on maturity level of the community
GEOSS APIs (Machine-to-machiine interface)
GEOSS Widget
3. Collaboration searches
and resources
GEOSS Community Portal, Initiatives, Flagships, etc. 4.
and Statistics
SERVICE HEALTH
o Very reliable
o Mostly available
o Sometimes unavailable
o Frequently unavailable
o Very unreliable
5. Integration of Status Information (via status checker) 5

6. GEOSS Portal Enhancements
As part of GEOSS Platform Enhancements at Large
Enhanced GEOSS Portal concept: more dynamic – customisable according to user needs.
Enhanced GEOSS Discovery and Access Broker: connects users with GEOSS providers.
To monitor health and store consolidated scores of resources
GEOSS
Status
Checker
Entry Point for new resource providers and information regarding them
GEOSS
Yellow
Pages

7. Joost van Bemmelen/Guido Colangeli - October 2017
The enhancements of the GEOSS Platform are supported by
a project coordinated by ESA in collaboration with CNR-IIA
co-funded by the European Commission under
Grant Agreement