The NextGEOSS project, a European contribution to GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems), proposes to develop the next generation data hub for Earth Observations, where the users can connect to access data and deploy data-driven applications.

1. Cloud Processing
close to the Earth data
Herve Caumont
Terradue Srl.
NextGEOSS KOM - Lisbon, January 18th 2017

2. Agenda
Foreword
1. A new workplace
2. When Earth data matters
3. Hubs and federations
4. For knowledge producers
Final remarks

3. Foreword
Applied research serves society, its
funding is focused to solve current or
future societal challenges
To measure and understand the earth
conditions, new and improved numerical
models are leading the way, along with
improved data assimilation pipelines.
How will the Earth Observation
community better support this goal ?
“major technical challenge is the complexity of
the data and analytics procedures across
disciplines (rather than the size of the data per se)”
Realising the European Open Science Cloud
EC Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

4. A New
Workplace
Our road to bring EO data mainstream
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5. NextGEOSS is open
NextGEOSS builds heavily on openness, especially Open Data policies,
to deliver the European GEO data hub.
Taking heritage of the GEO 2005-2015 achievements, promoting the
use of Earth Observations in decision making, and innovating for
GEOSS, a set of coordinated, independent EO, information and
processing systems.
Looking at the next decade, NextGEOSS will engage with communities
by promoting innovative GEOSS powered applications from Europe.
Cloud processing close to the data shall be a fast, cost effective
and user friendly capability so that application developers can focus
on creating added value products.
Terradue Cloud Platform supports NextGEOSS approach to Cloud

6. Terradue Cloud Platform
Integration layers:
▪ Connecting scientists to the Web and Cloud resources
empowering their research
▪ Tailored for Earth Sciences data integration & analysis
Partnership mindset:
▪ Dedicated entry points for different types of value adders
Since 2013, we’ve supported more than 40 companies
and research institutes in accessing earth observation
data & deploying processing services

7. Terradue Cloud Platform
2009-2014
2015-Forward
ESA G-POD
G-POD Cloud
Experiment
GEO Supersites
Virtual Archive
EO Thematic
Platforms
GENESI-DR/DEC
GEOWOW
MELODIES
H2020 Projects
2006-2008
▪ Co-funded ESA and EC projects, in a common vision
▪ Validation of evolutions via user engagement on the platform,
with network effects carrying business opportunities

8. Terradue Cloud Platform
2009-2014
2015-Forward
ESA G-POD
G-POD Cloud
Experiment
GEO Supersites
Virtual Archive
EO Thematic
Platforms
GENESI-DR/DEC
GEOWOW
MELODIES
H2020 Projects
2006-2008 Technological innovations,
domain standards takeup
▪ Co-funded ESA and EC projects, in a common vision
▪ Validation of evolutions via user engagement on the platform,
with network effects carrying business opportunities

9. Terradue Cloud Platform
2009-2014
ESA G-POD
G-POD Cloud
Experiment
GEO Supersites
Virtual Archive
EO Thematic
Platforms
GENESI-DR/DEC
GEOWOW
MELODIES
H2020 Projects
2006-2008 Technological innovations,
domain standards takeup
2015-Forward
Learning from experiments,
capacity building
▪ Co-funded ESA and EC projects, in a common vision
▪ Validation of evolutions via user engagement on the platform,
with network effects carrying business opportunities

10. Terradue Cloud Platform
▪ Co-funded ESA and EC projects, in a common vision
▪ Validation of evolutions via user engagement on the platform,
with network effects carrying business opportunities
2009-2014
2015-Forward
ESA G-POD
G-POD Cloud
Experiment
GEO Supersites
Virtual Archive
EO Thematic
Platforms
GENESI-DR/DEC
GEOWOW
MELODIES
H2020 Projects
2006-2008
Operations level agreements,
user engagement
Technological innovations,
domain standards takeup
Learning from experiments,
capacity building

11. Enabling ‘network effects’
What does a
Platform mean
nowadays ?
✓ A lever of Web and
Cloud technologies
✓ A business model for
value co-creation
✓ A framework to bring
innovation to new or
larger communities

12. Terradue Cloud Platform
A workplace & APIs to connect Data Providers,
Developers, Integrators and information producers
Providers
Consumers
▶ Mission:
▶ Rapid prototyping and
benchmarking of algorithms
▶ Seamless data access
whatever stage of the process
▶ Automated data processing
▶ Scalable resource management
▶ Information conveyance

13. When Earth
data matters
The ‘decades of observations’ challenge
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14. Long time series for earth science
Earth observation
data is a unique
source of global
measurements
over decades
Source: H. Laur, 2nd Workshop European Cloud Computing Strategic Plan
Heidelberg, 26 Oct 2011
Source: C.Minet et al., 2012
When calibrated and combined with other sources,
it empowers validation & interpolation models

15. Earth observation categories
Atmosphere
Cryosphere
Source: GMES
Example of
societal benefits
Support the enactment of policies
such as the monitoring of
greenhouse gas emissions
Example of
societal benefits
Document both climate change
trends and new economic
opportunities in the Arctic based on
sea ice monitoring
Connect existing activities to NextGEOSS

16. Earth observation categories
Geosphere
Hydrosphere
Source: GMES
Example of
societal benefits
Estimate erosion rates sending
sediments and nutrients into
waterways
Mitigate geohazards risks
impacting human settlements
Examples of
societal benefits
Deliver advice to farmers based on
weather conditions & soil moisture
Sustain ship routing efficiency
based on ocean conditions
Connect existing activities to NextGEOSS

17. Earth observation categories
Biosphere
Source: GMES
Examples of
societal benefits
Document Essential Biodiversity
Variables to improve ecosystem
benefits in face of increasing
anthropogenic pressures
Monitor the state and trends of
ecosystems in biogeographical
regions (e.g. mountain, arid, semi-
arid, coastal and marine) for
internationally recognized protected
aras and to define the needs of
future protected areas
Connect existing activities to NextGEOSS

18. Illustration from the GEO
Geohazard Supersites

19. NextGEOSS challenge:
Private sector
❏ overcome the
fragmentation of the
European landscape
of existing public &
private Earth
Observation data
infrastructures
❏ maximise their
combined
exploitation

20. Socio-economic
open datasets
govdata.de
data.gov.uk
data.gouv.fr
catalog.data.gov
PublicData.eu
Private sector
▪ Address
requirements
for the
development of
the European
digital
economy
▪ Bring together
multi-source
assets having
an open data
policies
▪ Help more
researchers &
developers to
compose
data-driven
applications
NextGEOSS foreseen impact:

21. Hubs and
federations
Empowering the commons
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22. A federated access for Earth Observations data

30. Data & processors swarming
Data Staging
from distributed
repositories
Data packages
capturing input
needs
Deliver new
products and
analysis results
towards
community hubs
Appliance
deployment to
distributed hosts
in the cloud
NextGEOSS Service Suite

31. Architectures & Innovation
▪ Web and Cloud services
▪ Standard App containers
▪ Mobile technologies
▪ Global Network operations
▪ Open Data Policies
▪ System of systems governance
"the architecture of a complex technical system
fundamentally influences, and is influenced by,
the economic system that drives the
development, production, and use of the system"
Internet Architecture and Innovation
MIT Press, Barbara van Schewick

32. For knowledge
producers
Addressing value creation chains
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33. Concept of Operation

34. Data access
Research and
operational data
infrastructures
Copernicus service
infrastructures
Within the
NextGEOSS consortium:
GEOSS registered
resources
Copernicus
scientific & public
access
NextGEOSS
Data Hub
Faceted search
User feedback
Data mining
QoS

35. Data staging
OGC OpenSearch
API
Data Buckets
API
Enablers for
Community hubs
NextGEOSS Data
management
Data I/O workflow
automation in a
distributed
environment

36. Cloud bursting
NextGEOSS support to
community hubs in
requesting, managing and
accessing resources for
cloud bursting
Covering both the open
science and commercial
applications opportunities

37. Experience with community hubs
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Climate Change
Carbon market
Climatology
Oceanography
Ship logistics
Land management
Water quality
Desertification
Biodiversity
Urban accounting
Volcanology
Seismic analysis
Disaster Risk
Reduction
EC FP7 GEOWOW
(2011-2013)
EC FP7 SenSyF
(2013-2015)
EC FP7 MELODIES
(2014-2016)
ESA Exploitation Platforms
(2014 onwards)
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14
35+
H2020 EcoPotential
(2015-2018)
30+
Campaigns
(2013 onwards)
NextGEOSS intended
outreach through innovative
research Pilots & business
opportunity Pilots
Atmosphere
Marine
Land
Cold regions
Biodiversity
Air pollution & Health
Water management
Agriculture / Agronomy
Food security
Teritorial planning
Solar energy
Urban growth
Smart cities
Secure societies
Citizen observatories

38. Final Remarks
With NextGEOSS, state of the art
technology will match a proven
governance model, driven by the
public sector with possible
contributions from private entities,
and deliver to society a new
capacity to learn faster from
earth observations, and make
better informed decisions

39. References
WMO Global Atmoshere Watch Implementation Plan 2016-2023
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/documents/IPFinalDraftMay11.pdf
GSNL 2017-2019 GSNL Implementation plan
http://www.earthobservations.org/documents/gsnl/201607_GSNL_Implementation_plan_2017_2019.pdf
Realising the European Open Science Cloud, EC Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/realising_the_european_open_science_cloud_2016.pdf
Internet Architecture and Innovation, MIT Press, Barbara van Schewick
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/internet-architecture-and-innovation