Highlights of implementation methodology
If the first EO data have been initially produced mainly for scientific goals, 2014 brought the breakthrough. The Copernicus program and its ‘open-data’ policies, has boost the initial provisioning of Open data Landsat enabling the development of affordable EO commercial business. More or less at the same time, cloud and containers technologies have leveraged the potential of the EO market. They solved the challenge increasing data volumes with costs accessible to companies that could not afford super calculators. However, in practice, developing the EO developers’ community from pioneers to mainstream users in a quickly evolving environment, stays a major effort and requires a lot of skills.
Indeed, this requires building a shared vision of the European resources landscape and dynamics, and identifying the challenges for the EO developers or their multi-disciplinary teams. e-shape has tackled this issue with a pragmatic approach. It is mixing lessons learned from the pilots and theoretical synthesis supporting the cross-domain cooperation on any of the components impacting EO business, i.e. Data, Technologies, Policies, Skills or Science
Developing an Earth Observation application to extract the insights needed by researchers, decision makers, analysts and citizens can raise a lot of challenges. It is impossible to address them all in a single project. Still the big amount of pilots and partners can help to address efficiently shared priorities.
Until now, the market has been somewhat pushed by data providers. e-shape focusses on the implementation of the 37 pilots and is a unique effort to capture the needs and challenges recognized by variety of application developers from the “user-centric” perspective, to standardize and boost it with cross domains best practices, to make it more understandable, and give a major impulse to a new users-pulled EO market trend.
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