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Cloud-Based Earth Observation Data Processing: A Case Study of ESA RSS and CloudSigma

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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
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
Customer Name	ESA（欧洲航天局） Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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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

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.

About 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.

Customer Name

ESA（欧洲航天局）

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.

Impact #1	Once the ESA RSS Team started using CloudSigma, they were able to improve the quality of the offered services. The RSS team, together with CloudSigma, are growing and steadily increasing their cloud deployment. The RSS Team does not hesitate to recommend CloudSigma to people who are looking for a reliable cloud partner. Judging by the overall experience that the ESA Team has with CloudSigma, they are very satisfied with the services. They consider CloudSigma one of the best cloud providers on the market and a perfect match for their requirements.

Impact #1

Once the ESA RSS Team started using CloudSigma, they were able to improve the quality of the offered services. The RSS team, together with CloudSigma, are growing and steadily increasing their cloud deployment. The RSS Team does not hesitate to recommend CloudSigma to people who are looking for a reliable cloud partner. Judging by the overall experience that the ESA Team has with CloudSigma, they are very satisfied with the services. They consider CloudSigma one of the best cloud providers on the market and a perfect match for their requirements.

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Cloud-Based Earth Observation Data Processing: A Case Study of ESA RSS and CloudSigma

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