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Cloud-Based Earth Observation Data Processing: A Case Study of ESA RSS and CloudSigma
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Equipment & Machinery
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Behavior & Emotion Tracking
- Time Sensitive Networking
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The European Space Agency's Research and Service Support (ESA RSS) is a service that provides resources to support Earth Observation data exploitation. The main purpose of the RSS service is to provide its customers, who are primarily researchers from universities and research centers, service providers, public institutions, and medium-sized enterprises, with reliable and performant services. The challenge was managing the variable workload and the diversity of processing required. They needed a solution that would allow them to focus on their main responsibilities, specifically in terms of development and support, without being distracted by basic operational requirements.
The Customer
ESA（欧洲航天局）
About The Customer
ESA RSS is a service provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA RSS service provides resources to support Earth Observation data exploitation. They support data access and data processing by bringing user algorithms close to the data and by providing various platforms and environments. RSS also supports the development of new applications and services to generate value-added information derived from Earth Observation data.
The Solution
ESA RSS decided to trust CloudSigma to satisfy different user requirements. Currently, RSS is using computing power at CloudSigma and satellite data stored on the clustered storage system to provide virtual environments where Earth Observation users can develop their algorithms or processes. This helps researchers and service providers to speed up their research, saving time and costs. The scale-out magnetic storage provides ESA’s RSS team flexible and cost-effective storage with the necessary performance and scalability to run its analyses and store the satellite data and computational results. More specifically, the RSS Team hosts the Cloud Toolbox service that provides users with tailored machines hosted on CloudSigma for development, analysis, and processing activities.
Operational Impact
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