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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. Users often face chall
 enges such as inconsistent interfaces\, proprietary software and limited i
 nteroperability. To fully exploit the potential of these complementary pla
 tform resources we anticipate the need to encourage interoperation amongst
  the platforms\, such that users of one platform may consume the services 
 of another directly platform-to-platform.\n\nEOEPCA (EO Exploitation Platf
 orm Common Architecture - https://eoepca.org/) is a European Space Agency 
 (ESA) funded project with the goal to define and agree a re-usable exploit
 ation platform architecture using standard interfaces to encourage interop
 eration and federation between operational exploitation platforms - facili
 tating easier access and more efficient exploitation of the rapidly growin
 g body of EO and other data. Interoperability through open standards is a 
 key guiding force for the Common Architecture. EOEPCA adheres to standards
  from organisations such as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and follows b
 est practices in data management\, including implementation of OGC Web Ser
 vices and emerging OGC API specifications for features\, coverages and pro
 cesses. Platform developers are more likely to invest their efforts in sta
 ndard implementations that have wide usage\; off-the-shelf clients and sof
 tware are more likely to be found for standards-based solutions.\n\nThe EO
 EPCA system architecture is designed to meet a set of defined use cases fo
 r various levels of user\, from expert application developers to data anal
 ysts and end users. The architecture is defined as a set of Building Block
 s (BBs)\, exposing well-defined open-standard interfaces. These include Id
 entity and Access Management\, Resource Discovery\, Data Access\, Processi
 ng Workflows\, Data Cube Access\, Machine Learning Operations\, and more. 
 Each of these BBs are containerized for Kubernetes deployment\, which prov
 ides an infrastructure-agnostic deployment target.\n\nThe exploitation pla
 tform is conceived as a ‘virtual work environment’ where users can acc
 ess data\, develop algorithms\, conduct analysis and share their value-add
 ing outcomes. The EOEPCA architecture facilitates this through a Workspace
  BB that provides collaboration environments for projects (groups of users
 ) including dedicated storage and services for analysis\, processing and p
 ublishing of added-value data and applications. This is supported by an Ap
 plication Hub building-block that provides interactive web-tooling for ana
 lysis\, algorithm development\, data exploitation and provides a web dashb
 oard capability through which added-value outcomes can be showcased.\n\nOu
 r presentation will highlight the generalised architecture\, standards\, b
 est practice and open source software components available.
DTSTAMP:20260527T064358Z
LOCATION:EL11 (Geosolutions)
SUMMARY:EOEPCA+: a method for an open-sourced EO Exploitation Platform Comm
 on Architecture - Chandra Taposeea-Fisher\, James Hinton
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2025/talk/AJBHPV/
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