Emmanuel Mondon (Copernicus World Alliance) described the activities of the Copernicus World Alliance aiming to secure the return of investment in Copernicus and other Earth observation (EO) programmes resulting in societal and economic benefits. One of their contribution towards this goal is to test a multi-cloud solution that can handle the enormous amount of data coming from EO.

1. Innovative services
for stimulating
the EO Market
and beyond…
Emmanuel MONDON
Copernicus World Alliance, Coordinator
AdviceGEO, Founder
Workshop : New Ways to Tackle Agriculture Challenges
Kehl, 5th of September 2017

2. Agenda
• A bit of background…
• Revolution or evolution ?
• Copernicus World Alliance (CWA)
• Examples of innovative services

3. 41 years old, Married, 5 children
French but living in Munich since mid-2014
Working on my own (but reporting to my wife) since early 2016
Sharing information (free of charge)
Coordinating a European Industry Alliance addressing EO Services (in-kind contribution)
Providing advice (as paid as possible)
A bit of background…

4. 41 years old, Married, 5 children
French but living in Munich since mid-2014
Working on my own (but reporting to my wife) since early 2016
Sharing information (free of charge)
Coordinating a European Industry Alliance addressing EO Services (in-kind contribution)
Providing advice (as paid as possible)
Hobbies : Facing challenges, my biggest being :
Triggering revolution…
A bit of background…

5. About revolution…
14 juillet 1789 – Paris
Louis XVI: « C´est une révolte ? »
Duc de Liancourt: « Non, Sire c´est une révolution. »
What about
Space and
Earth Observation ?
©Peter Kruger CEO & MD Startupbootcamp FoodTech

6. © 2015 CloudEO AG
MarketPlace for EO Services
Information as a Service
INFOaaS Providers
Platform as a Service (PaaS) Providers
ICT as a Service (IaaS) Providers
New business models
By me
on the 24th of Sep.
2015
@ ESRIN

7. By Grant
Burningham
on 9/8/16
at 12:10 PM

8. EO Market(s)
• Traditional markets: bespoke projects
mainly purchasing data
with much value-added analytics performed in-house
• Developing markets: business intelligence and analytics
leveraging data deluge with value-adding
to form higher value products and services
• New markets: information (as a service – INFOaaS)
data derived (automatically) from Earth Observation fused with others
for providing information
directly integrated into business workflows

9. GEO information as an enabler…
for public policy & decision making

10. Becoming a commodity ?
Innovate !
• Like citizens with Google Earth, TomTom, etc…
companies started to realize that geospatial technology (incl. EO)
was becoming a necessary part of their businesses
• EO data and services are considered to be emerging commodities, for
which the market is developing… but not yet mature,
similar to the GPS/navigation market 15 years ago?
• Therefore the EO Industry should innovate by
• Enlarging existing markets and addressing new ones
• Changing the pace and way of doing business
• Improving collaboration
• Accelerating business value
• Leveraging large processing resources
• Accessing data seamlessly
EARSC eoMALL
CWA
CDIAS

11. Knowledge Tier
Exploitation Tier
Resources Tier
Copernicus
DIAS
InSP = Information Services Providers
InSP#1
InSP#2
InSP#3

12. cwa.infoaas.eu

13. • Initiated at the 4th Ground Segment Coordination Body (GSCB) Workshop
on the 24th of September 2015 at ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) *
• Open to all European industry stakeholders addressing Earth Observation (EO)
Services, willing to contribute and sharing the same objectives
• Working together overcoming fragmentation, at the EU level
• Joining European forces : EO Services (EARSC) and ICT (BDVA, EGI, Helix Nebula, EOSC)
• Demonstrating that European industry is able to deliver to public and private entities
« INFOrmation as a Service » (INFOaaS) derived from Earth Observation
• Leveraging €B 7+ EU & ESA investments related to Copernicus & Sentinels
• Testing value chain(s) and business model(s)
• Pulling the market by stimulating demand, focusing on public and private end-users
able and willing to subscribe to paying services
* https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/2066722/19-GSCB-Workshop-Session-2-Presentation-CloudEO-AG.pdf
Background
& Rationale

14. Achievements
• 50+ Partners
• In 2016, 1 man.year (FTE) self-financed, invested by 10 core partners altogether for
making it real !
• Q2 2016 : First reference customer (EU SatCen) & business successes from both
public and private entities
• Numerous collaborations between partners for designing, developing, operating,
promoting and selling 10 different services (some of them detailed in the next slides)
• Q4 2016 : Proof of Concept for end-to-end processing of EO data in multiple clouds
• Exclusive Sentinels Users Dashboard (SUD) Service
providing information from a users perspective
on Sentinel Data Access through ESA SciHub API (OpenHub)

15. Big Picture
Dedicated dissemination
bandwidth
with committed reliability
and performances
Dedicated dissemination
bandwidth ensuring gateway
to the scientific
GEANT backbone
Copernicus
Core &
Downstream
Services
MSs
Collaborativ
e Access
Scientific /
Other
Access
Copernicus
Services
Access
International
Agreements
Access
Sentinel
Data
Access
Sentinel
Data Storage &
Management
EO Services
MSs Collaborative GS Scientific UseValue Adding Use
PEPS (FR)
CODE
(DE)
SEDAS(UK)
SWEA
(SE)
Mid
term
Archive
Long
Term
Archive
SatCatSentinel-1
on
Demand
S2
OGC
W*S
SUD ClearSky
Cloud
Free
Mosaic
ESA funded Projects
EO
IPT.PL
TEPs
Powering EGI Data HubCAC (GR)
Forestry
Flood
Tiles &
More
Rolling
Archive

16. Multi-cloud Proof Of Concept

17. Sentinels Users Dashboard (SUD)

19. EOproc SatCat discovery service
http://satcat.eoproc.com/cat-01/dev-online.html?&config=demo-01
....

21. Sinergise’s access to S2 full resolution

22. Sinergise Sentinel Hub

23. Sentinel Playground
http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground
thing about it here:
http://www.sentinel-hub.com/blog/sentinel-playground

24. Sentinel data for IACS controls (1/2)

25. Sentinel data for IACS controls (2/2)
http://www.sentinel-hub.com/blog/sentinel-satellite-imagery-iacs-controls
Already three paying agencies
using these services !

26. S1 scene
requests
Services for Copernicus: Sentinel-1 on Demand Processing
The Challenge:
• S-1 data require custom specific pre-processing, before being ready to use
• Powerful machines are required for pre-processing e.g. with the S-1 toolbox
The Solution:
• Sentinel-1 processing on demand, highly automated and scalable
• Transparent business model: User pays only for the resources consumed
• Target applications: Forestry, Agriculture, Military, Insurance, commercial business
How it works:
S1 processors
S1 processing
results
ESA Sci Hub
Downloader
User
pocessing graphs
S1 scene cache
2 TByte
User Space
S1-on-Demand
Job queue
API job request
with scene-IDs and
processing graphs
User
S1 processing results
via FTP, SAMBA CIFS
or WebDAV
S1 scenes
© EOproc 2017

27. EO Machine to Machine Service : ClearSky
in other words: What is the chance, that the sky is clear over the year ?
Use cases:
• Expectation management / resource planning for optical EO data acquisition
• Target users: users of optical EO data, in particular those, tasking acquisitions
Features:
• Query via API: location and period of the year return: probability of clear sky
• Granularity: 10 x 10 km coverage: global
© EOproc 2017

28. EO Machine to Machine Service : ClearSky
© EOproc 2017

31. Zebris firemaps.net

32. Zebris firemaps.net

33. Add´l INFOaaS addressing agriculture
https://www.spaceanalyzer.com/
Point of contact : Dimitris Sykas dsykas@spaceanalyzer.com
www.geocledian.com
Point of contact : Stefan Scherer stefan.scherer@geocledian.com
green spin www.greenspin.com / mofato http://mofato.com/
Point of contact : Dr. Sebastian Fritsch fritsch@greenspin.com
http://www.agrifortis.de/nexpert
Point of contact :
Ivo Banovsky (i.banovsky@erteco.de)
Thomas Selige (thomas@selige.de)

34. What´s next ?
• Legal entity on its way, created in Q3/4 2017 by 20+ partners
• most probably a Societas Cooperativa Europaea (SCE) :
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/social-economy/cooperatives/european-
cooperative-society_en

35. Contact
Emmanuel MONDON
Copernicus World Alliance, Coordinator
AdviceGEO, Founder
Email : emondon@advicegeo.com
Mobile : +49 163 171 21 65
Skype : emmanuel.mondon