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DESCRIPTION:The ‘Exploitation Platform’ concept derives from the need t
 o access and process an ever-growing volume of data. Many web-based platfo
 rms have emerged - offering access to a wealth of satellite Earth Observat
 ion (EO) data. Increasingly\, these are collocated with cloud computing re
 sources and applications for exploiting the data. Rather than downloading 
 the data\, the exploitation platform offers a cloud environment with acces
 s to EO data and associated compute and tools that facilitate the analysis
  and processing of large data volumes. The Exploitation Platform benefits 
 users\, data providers and infrastructure providers. Users benefit from th
 e scalability & performance of the cloud infrastructure\, the added-value 
 services offered by the platform – and avoid the need to maintain their 
 own hardware. Data hosted in the cloud infrastructure reaches a wider audi
 ence and Infrastructure Providers gain an increased cloud user base.\n\nUs
 ers are beginning to appreciate the advantages of exploitation platforms. 
 However\, the market now offers a plethora of platforms with various added
  value services and data access capabilities. This ever-increasing offer i
 s rather intimidating and confusing for most users. In order to fully expl
 oit the potential of these complementary platform resources we anticipate 
 the need to encourage interoperation amongst the platforms\, such that use
 rs of one platform may consume the services of another directly platform-t
 o-platform.\n\nEOEPCA (EO Exploitation Platform Common Architecture) is a 
 European Space Agency (ESA) funded project with the goal to define and agr
 ee a re-usable exploitation platform architecture using standard interface
 s to encourage interoperation and federation between operational exploitat
 ion platforms - facilitating easier access and more efficient exploitation
  of the rapidly growing body of EO and other data. Interoperability throug
 h open standards is a key guiding force for the Common Architecture: platf
 orm developers are more likely to invest their efforts in standard impleme
 ntations that have wide usage\; off-the-shelf clients and software are mor
 e likely to be found for standards-based solutions.\n\nThe EOEPCA system a
 rchitecture is designed to meet a set of defined use cases for various lev
 els of user\, from expert application developers to consumers. The archite
 cture is defined as a set of Building Blocks (BBs)\, exposing well-defined
  open-standard interfaces. These include Identity and Access Management\, 
 Resource Discovery\, Data Access\, Processing Workflows\, Data Cube Access
 \, Machine Learning Operations\, and more. Each of these BBs are container
 ized for Kubernetes deployment\, which provides an infrastructure-agnostic
  deployment target.\n\nThe exploitation platform is conceived as a ‘virt
 ual work environment’ where users can access data\, develop algorithms\,
  conduct analysis and share their value-adding outcomes. The EOEPCA archit
 ecture facilitates this through a Workspace BB that provides a user-centri
 c platform experience in which the standard discovery\, visualisation and 
 access interfaces are re-used for user-owned resources maintained within t
 he platform - including data\, applications\, added-value products (from p
 rocessing)\, etc. This is supported by an Application Hub building-block t
 hat provides interactive web-tooling for analysis\, algorithm development\
 , data exploitation and provides a web dashboard capability through which 
 added-value outcomes can be showcased.\n\nOur presentation will highlight 
 the generalised architecture\, standards\, best practice and open source s
 oftware components available.
DTSTAMP:20260613T175847Z
LOCATION:Foyer
SUMMARY:EO Exploitation Platform Common Architecture - Chandra Taposeea-Fis
 her\, Garin Smith
URL:https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/open-earth-monitor-global-workshop-202
 4/talk/BSGLJR/
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