MISSION EXPLOITATION PLATFORM

PROBA-V

ERWIN GOOR, VITO

VITO – COMPANY PROFILE

VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium

750 employees, 26 nationalities, 140 mio€ turnover in 2014

Remote Sensing unit: 80+ employees

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Energy Materials Chemistry

Health Land use

VITO REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS

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Infrastructure

+150 Tbytes/year

PROBA-V User Segment (incl. SPOT-VEGETATION, METOP-AVHRR S10, …)

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PROBA-V MEP CONCEPT

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Bring the users to the data by offering a platform with

» complete archive of PROBA-V & SPOT-VEGETATION

& derived products from PV_MEP users

& HR EO/reference data to support Cal/Val activities on the platform

» Scalable ICT resources (private cloud) & processing middleware (Hadoop)

» Users develop applications & can offer this as on-demand service

» A growing set of tools & software from various contributors

» Documentation & collaborative tools

» User support

Develop Operate Support users

DATA MANAGEMENT

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Product Distribution Facility www.vito-eodata.be

PROBA-V (Oct 2013-present) SPOT-VEGETATION (1998-2014)

Tapes

Data Manager (download & cache data)

Sentinel

Data Hub

Landsat

Meteo

data

Copernicus

Global Land Service

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MEP Applications

3rd-party data providers / users

Derived

products

Permanent

Archive

User

storage

(NFS) link to

Archive

Focus on standardisation

THE APPLICATIONS (JAN ‘16)

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GEOVIEWER

» Screenshots

» Ook overlay

» !!! Duidelijk ook WCS tonen Andrea gevraagd dat je hier een data extract kan downloaden in

format & clipping naar wens

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TIME SERIES VIEWER

Quickly explore & review satellite time series and complementary indicators for

environmental monitoring

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TIME SERIES VIEWER

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Coming soon …

On-the-fly calculations for pixels & user-defined polygons

Web service interface

TSVIEWER VIDEO

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N-DAILY COMPOSITOR

First example of pre-defined on-demand processing service

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N-DAILY COMPOSITOR - ROADMAP

N-daily compositor is a ‘first’ pre-defined on-demand processing service

more operational services can be shaped with users/partners/…

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PRE-DEFINED ON-DEMAND PROCESSING SERVICE

CLOUD TOOLBOX

» ESA RSS Cloud Toolbox, enriched with a set of tools:

» Support for Python & R

» GDAL ‘upgrade’ – GRASS GIS

» SNAP ‘Sentinel Application Platform’ - Sentinel 3 toolbox

» QGIS

» R studio, PROBA-V Product Customisation Tool

» And PROBA-V sample data

» March ‘15 till October ‘15 over Europe – All collections (L1C, 1 km, 300 m, 100 m)

» Graphical environment which can be launched with VNC, i.e. from Windows.

» Request via ESA RSS Cloud Toolbox service - http://eogrid.esrin.esa.int/cloudtoolbox/

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CLOUD TOOLBOX

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CLOUD TOOLBOX - ROADMAP

» Jan 2016

» Sample PROBA-V data & pre-installed tools

» Cloud Toolbox runs on a public cloud

Suited for e.g. RS students image correction, classification, interpretation, statistics, …

Try it & provide us your feedback on missing tools, …

» Autumn 2016

» Cloud Toolbox runs at VITO private cloud with access to full PROBA-V data archive

» + processing libraries, to be integrated in user-developed applications

» Tools for developing & processing on Hadoop

Benefit Hadoop/Spark: large-scale distributed processing (beyond capabilities of your system)

user projects to assess the learning curve & Tutorials/Blogs

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VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

JUPYTER NOTEBOOK

A notebook records & distributes ‘reproducible’ research

Roadmap

- Available for demonstrations

(on-demand)

- Released in 2017 to all users

Interactive Data Analysis

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Rich Media Output

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WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE COMPUTING

INFORMATION DASHBOARDS

» Notebooks are very flexible, but require programming knowledge

» For decision makers, we create flexible ‘information dashboards’

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Dashboards, using services/data at the platform

Integration of UAV/RPAS data

Monitoring of one field Input & visualise fieldwork data

Benchmarking of productivity

between different fields

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USERS & REQUIREMENTS – PROBA-V MEP

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MEP user groups

GeoViewer, TSViewer

iPython, On-demand

Composite

Development VM’s, API’s

Any user

Remote sensing Expert

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DEVELOPMENT PLAN (SCHEDULED DATES)

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Nov 2015 Mid 2018

Operations (*)

Early delivery

(pre-operations)

Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration 3

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July 2016

Iteration 1

June 2017

Iteration 2

January 2018

Iteration 3

Transfer to operations

(*) includes continuous user support & data/service integration

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State-of-the-art tools for

BIG Data

Processing & analytics

Operations

Relevant EO-data …

growing in size

FIRST PILOT ‘USER’ APPLICATIONS

» First pilot user applications on the PROBA-V MEP: 2016/17:

» PROBA-V Toolbox (also as plug-in to existing toolboxes)

» Land Cover Monitoring

» Snow Mapping

» Detection of Disturbances in Natural Vegetation

» Detection of Fires / Burned Areas

» Desert Locust

» Looking for further collaborations

» Applications, tools, Software components, … develop pre-operational service

» More EO data: data copy OR links with other Exploitation Platforms

» Focus on machine-to-machine interfaces: discovery – viewing – access – analytics –

processing - …

» Expertise on Hadoop – OpenStack – Data analytics - …

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Thank you …

Erwin Goor – VITO - Belgium

erwin.goor@vito.be

http://proba-v-mep.esa.int/