Environmental monitoring research requires access to heterogeneous information collected from different sensor sources, based on satellites, UAVs, and in-situ measurements. The wide availability of data collected by Copernicus missions generates a huge amount of data (Big Data) that needs to be organized in an adequate way and requires integration and analysis tools. Moreover, with the possibility of having large areas covered by low-cost sensors, the amount of point data can also grow enormously. Data are typically organized in different data structures, and it is often challenging to understand where the data are collected, how to use them, and how to work with different data sources simultaneously. The DPS4ESLAB project proposed the creation of an innovative research infrastructure by implementing an IT platform capable of handling the data workflows generated by heterogeneous sources and equipped with web tools and applications to find, use, analyze and share the data stored therein. The data platform is accessible through the web application at https://edp-portal.eurac.edu/home from which the user can reach the data catalogue, the analysis tool, and the data and mapping collaboration and sharing portal. A fourth element gathers documentation and example code in order to guide the user to use the platform at its best. All collaborators of Eurac Research have access to the contents of the platform, and thanks to a user management system, access to the platform components is enabled for research partners and private organizations that want to benefit from the available data and tools. The EDP is build by means of open source components and implements well established interoperability standards, therefore is federated with international organizations such as GEOSS and EOSC, as well as with the OpenDataHub.

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EDP
Environmental Data Platform: A collaborative Platform for
working with heterogenous environmental data
Roberto Monsorno – A. Vianello, A. Costa, S. Tritini
A. Mejia Aguilar, A. Jacob, B. Ventura

2. Center for Sensing Solutions
The Center for Sensing Solutions can
manage the entire data cycle.
Our data driven approach follows the
FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable and Reusable) and
mostly relay on open source
technologies.

3. Data sources
Data collection and integration with
different platforms at different scales

4. Data sources

5. Data structures
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Tabular data Spatial data:
vector/raster
(x,y,z,time)
Datacubes
(n. dimension)

6. gateway
(rasp, pycom, LanThings, wizzilab, SENECA)
wifi/ethernet/3GPP
dev dev
dev
(topics?)
gateway
(rasp, pycom)
proximity
dev
gateway
(rasp, pycom, STM, wizzilab, LanThings)
LPWAN
dev
(ABP - OTA)
dev dev dev
VMs ; DBs
microservices
eomountdata
Sdcgdb02
Restful API
nodeRED
mosquitto
FIWARE
CrateDB,
Mongo
loraserver
sigfox build LanThings app Dash7Board
ftp
http
mqtt
Lora/
loraWAN
sigfox
zigbee
DASH7
openVPN openVPN
EDP Eurac
mqtt
IN-BOUND workflow
- From EPD to device
- Maintenance
- Upgrade FW
- Network topology
(star, mesh)
- Dev Authentication
- Contact persons
Workflows

7. Sensing Device
V.M.
eomountdata.eurac.edu
V.M.
10.8.xxx.xxx (DPS4ESLAB)
GPS
T,RH.txt
GPS.ubx
3GPP
FTP
T,RH
T,RH.txt
GPS.ubx
SCP
EDP front-end EDP back-end
RTK lib
- convbin
- rnx2rtkp
GPS.pos
RTK lib
-str2str
GPS + T,RH
PostgreSQL
10.8.xxx.xx
x
data
fusion
Geoserver
maps.eurac.edu
WMS <- Data
Workflow

8. Infrastructure Resources
Compute Nodes
624 CPU
6 TB RAM
Storage
1584 TB

9. EDP-Platform
https://edp-portal.eurac.edu
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10. EDP-Platform - Features
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Collaborative Platform:
• Share datasets between internal/external users
• Consume external datasets using standard web services/API
• Collaborate in layers management, map composing, metadata filling,
data processing between project partners.
• Users are autonomous in layers/map management and metadata
filling
• Collaborate in documentation creation
• Sandboxed environment for data analysis

11. Data Discovery

12. Metadata generation
GeoNetwork
Data provider/User
Data manager
dataset
Metadata
(STAC specification)
Rasdaman OpenEO metadata compliant with international standard:
ISO, INSPIRE, OGC CSW

13. DOI creation for datasets
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DOI can be generated in the Datacite service
according to data storage platform with two different
workflows:
• DOI for OpenEO datasets can be generated by the
Metadata catalogue using a plugin
• All other DOI are generated using the DataCite web
interface
Eurac is registered member at Datacite

14. A
Interoperable
F
R
FAIR data principles
Group on Earth Observation
www.geoportal.org
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/

15. Documentation
Seminar video recording:
use of the EDP-platform
1
2
3

16. Data
Analysis
Jupyter Hub

17. Layer
258 (182 public)
Maps
43 (33 public)
Projects
9
Users
99
Sharing and Visualization

18. EDP – Maps Portal
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Functionalities:
• Self service data management web interface
• Maps creation
• Automatically web services creation: WMS, WCS, WFS…
• Easy permission settings: view, download, edit…
• Collaborative environment for external partners
• High interoperability IN/OUT
• Custom map layout
• Easy map publication in external web pages
• DOI generation

19. EDP - Authorization System
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Thank you
for the attention!
Center for Sensing Solutions
T +39 0471 055 930
F +39 0471 055 949
sensing.solutions@eurac.edu