CEOS Analysis Ready Data Strategy (October 2019)

CEOS Analysis Ready Data Strategy CEOS ensures international coordination of civil space-based Earth observation programs and promotes exchange of data to optimize societal benefit and inform decision making for securing a prosperous and sustainable future for humankind. The rapidly evolving domain of information technology has led to greatly enhanced computational capability and much increased expectations of a broadened user community familiar with Big Data systems and the benefits of cloud storage and computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Satellite data is now just one of many sources of information available to results-driven users and data hungry, automated systems. Additionally, Earth observation missions are no longer the sole domain of government programs and space agencies. Miniaturization, standardization and innovation have led to significant new Earth observation and data access capabilities in the commercial ‘Space 2.0’ sector. This new presence poses a challenge for CEOS agencies to identify and communicate the distinct role for government funded missions and to strategically shape the EO landscape to include and leverage the rapidly emerging capabilities of the commercial sector. Earth observation data from CEOS Agencies have several distinctive characteristics which ensure their ongoing relevance. Those features include: ● Highly superior platforms and instrumentation, allowing accuracy of observations that are not possible with systems that are developed with orders of magnitude less cost; ● Robust calibration and validation; ● Long-term data records and measurement continuity;● Their potential to be free and open for all of society, allowing benefits to be delivered over many end users; ● The authority of trusted and respected government agencies. For these benefits to continue to be realised however requires that agencies adapt their methods of operation to ensure that data is easy to access – preferably in locations already favoured by the established IT and user community – and ready to use with minimal additional processing. One of the measures proposed to support the objective of simplified data handling was the pursuit of CEOS Analysis Ready Data (ARD) – which involves data suppliers removing many of the fundamental data correction and processing tasks from the users, so that more users and more uses of the data are possible.

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notes CEOS Analysis Ready Data Strategy CEOS ensures international coordination of civil space-based Earth observation programs and promotes exchange of data to optimize societal benefit and inform decision making for securing a prosperous and sustainable future for humankind. The rapidly evolving domain of information technology has led to greatly enhanced computational capability and much increased expectations of a broadened user community familiar with Big Data systems and the benefits of cloud storage and computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Satellite data is now just one of many sources of information available to results-driven users and data hungry, automated systems. Additionally, Earth observation missions are no longer the sole domain of government programs and space agencies. Miniaturization, standardization and innovation have led to significant new Earth observation and data access capabilities in the commercial ‘Space 2.0’ sector. This new presence poses a challenge for CEOS agencies to identify and communicate the distinct role for government funded missions and to strategically shape the EO landscape to include and leverage the rapidly emerging capabilities of the commercial sector.<div> Earth observation data from CEOS Agencies have several distinctive characteristics which ensure their ongoing relevance. Those features include: <div>● Highly superior platforms and instrumentation, allowing accuracy of observations that are not possible with systems that are developed with orders of magnitude less cost; </div><div>● Robust calibration and validation; </div><div>● Long-term data records and measurement continuity;</div><div>● Their potential to be free and open for all of society, allowing benefits to be delivered over many end users; </div><div>● The authority of trusted and respected government agencies. </div><div>For these benefits to continue to be realised however requires that agencies adapt their methods of operation to ensure that data is easy to access – preferably in locations already favoured by the established IT and user community – and ready to use with minimal additional processing. One of the measures proposed to support the objective of simplified data handling was the pursuit of CEOS Analysis Ready Data (ARD) – which involves data suppliers removing many of the fundamental data correction and processing tasks from the users, so that more users and more uses of the data are possible.</div></div>
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title CEOS Analysis Ready Data Strategy (October 2019)
url https://www.amerigeo.org/documents/amerigeoss::ceos-analysis-ready-data-strategy-october-2019