Opening new horizons: How to migrate the Copernicus Global Land Service to a Cloud environment
Cloud computing has completely transformed computing infrastructure over the past decade, opening exciting new possibilities for data distribution and analytics. As earth-observation data continue to grow in volume and complexity, many data providers are considering how best to take advantage of cloud computing. This report assesses how the Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) might migrate from its current configuration to a cloud-based infrastructure. We review the existing portfolio of data and services, provide a vision for a future cloud architecture, and consider the challenges, costs, and risks associated with a migration. The primary benefits associated with a migration to cloud are
• greater transparency and reproducibility of the data processing chains, enhancing trust
• better scalability to handle the large volume of data we expect from future satellites
• better integration with downstream processing chains and thus more value delivered to research and industry
While we frame our report in terms of the CGLS, we note that these key points and many of the technical considerations are quite generic and applicable throughout the Copernicus service ecosystem and to any modern data service.
ABERNATHEY Ryan;
NETELER Markus;
AMICI Alessandro;
JACOB Alexander;
CHERLET Michael;
STROBL Peter;
2021-01-14
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC122454
978-92-76-28406-2 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30554 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30554-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC122454,
10.2760/668980 (online),
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