real life interoperability - increasing the use of earth observation data

Jérôme GASPERI4S Symposium - Portorož - June 4th, 2012

REAL LIFE INTEROPERABILITYIncreasing the use of Earth Observation data

Small Satellites, Big Systems

1m

2m

6m

SST-100SpeakerSPOT 5

only data matter

The best data are useless if nobody can get them

Interoperability

Works in Portorož

We need to standardize !

format | describe | accessfiles metadata services

A readable one !(e.g. JPG, TIF, HDF, etc.)

A structured (e.g. XML) andstandardized (e.g. HMA)

description

OGC Web ServicesW*S

INT

ER

OP

ER

AB

ILIT

Y

Share mapsWMS

Share vectorsWFS

Share dataWCS

Search metadataCSW

Geospatial Web Services

All these things done, we could seamlessly combine data from big or small satellites to provide more complete information to the users

A concrete use caseInternational Charter

"Space and Major Disasters" metadata cataloghttp://www.disasterschartercatalog.org

The Charter aims to provide a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or technological disasters [...]

The agreement comes from the recognition that no single operator or satellite can match the challenges of natural disaster management.

SPOT 4, 5

Orbview 2, 3

SAC-C

Formosat

IRS

Pleiades

IKONOS

QuickBird

Envisat

Landsat 7

Radarsat 1, 2

DMC

CBERS

TerraSAR, TanDEM X

Kompsat 2

GEOEye-1

ALOS

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

336since 27.11.2000

Charter metadata catalog(demo)

Aram Bartholl - "Map" project, 2006-2010