AN ARCHITECTURE AND AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT IN EARTH SCIENCE: THE VOICE STUDY

摘要

The user services developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation (EO) missions are mainly limited to provide information on and access to standard data products. At present, ESA’s EO ground segment infrastructure does not consider the preparation of a user infrastructure (I.e. a user segment to complement the space and ground segments) that allows for interaction and collaboration among users, e.g., in the execution of research or generation of science and/or commercial (value added) products. Goal of THE VOICE study is to investigate the understanding of requirements in selected Earth Science and Application communities, to design a generic Collaborative Environment for Earth Science-related domains and to proof this design by means of a prototypal infrastructure implementing innovative networked collaborative working modes. This paper presents the results of the study.