A model for the scientific exploitation of earth observation missions: the ESA research and service support
The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing five new missions called Sentinels specifically for the operational
needs of the joint European Commission-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
In the coming Sentinel era, Earth Observation community will be challenged by the significant increase of storage and processing capacity needs. Whilst the yearly growth rate of the data archives of ESA’s largest Earth Observation mission, ENVISAT, has been in the range of
some hundreds of terabytes, the growth rate for the Sentinel missions’ data will be one order of magnitude higher.
Being this paper an introduction to the proposed “Research and Service Support” model it focuses on two high level scientific needs: the capability to generate and test algorithms; and the capability to perform near real time processing of multi-source Earth Observation mission data.
MARCHETTI Pier Giorgio;
RIVOLTA G.;
D'ELIA S.;
FARRES J.;
GOBRON Nadine;
MASON G.;
2013-03-04
IEEE
JRC74791
0274-6338,
http://www.grss-ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ngrs_NL_0312-Webv2.pdf,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC74791,
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