EO Resources

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Upstream resources

• Bartolomeo: In orbit demonstration via deployment on the International Space station ~400km altitude, from 12 months, from 3U to ~1m3 , up to 2TB/day, return.
• SpaceRider: In orbit demonstration via reusable unmanned spaceplane. Various Low Earth Orbits, ~2 months, from 450kg, from 0.8 m3, return.

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EO Data Access

• Download Copernicus and third party mission data;
• Scihub, Copernicus data portal;
• Sentinelhub, Sentinel Data Access;
• Amazon Web Services, wide range of EO data;
• Google Earth Engine, wide range of EO data and custom processing in web browser;
• Technical guide to get familiar with EO data.

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Exploitation platforms

Data exploitation platforms. DIAS providers Data and Information Access Service:

• Creotech (PL) with cloud provider CloudFerro (PL): http://www.creodias.eu/;
• Serco (IT) with cloud provider OVH (FR): http://www.onda-dias.eu/;
• Airbus (FR) with cloud provider Orange (FR): http://www.sobloo.eu/;
• ATOS (FR) with cloud provider T-Systems (DE): www.mundiwebservices.eu/;
• EUMETSAT, with Mercator Ocean and ECMWF: http://wekeo.eu/;
• Datacubes: https://eurodatacube.com/

Thematic Exploitation Platforms (TEPs). Data and already existing processing chain per application:

• https://hydrology-tep.eu/;
• https://foodsecurity-tep.net/;
• https://f-tep.com/;
• https://geohazards-tep.eu/;
• https://www.coastal-tep.eu/;
• https://urban-tep.eu/;
• https://portal.polartep.io/.

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Reference data

(to train ML algorithm for example)

• Land Parcel Information System (LPIS);
• Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (LUCAS);
• Open Street Map: open map data;
• 3D LIDAR point clouds;
• Geographical information for named place: https://www.geonames.org/;
• Open DEMS (Digital Elevation Models).

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Software tools

• Sentinel Toolbox, with SNAP (SeNtinel Application Platform) developed by ESA;
• Open SAR toolkit, open Sentinel 1 processing;
• StaMPS, Sentinel 1 subsidence tool;
• Sen2agri, processing of Sentinel 2 for agriculture applications;
• Orfeo Toolbox, Open Source processing of remote sensing images;
• Open layers: Put a map on your webpage (open source).

GIS software:

• QGIS free and open source;
• ArcGIS paying product.

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ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing

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