2011-11-10 This virtual archive represents ESA contribution to the supersites initiative. This huge amount of SAR data (over than ten thousand images) will then be accessible to science communities dealing with interferometry, landslide and change detection. In the last 20 years, scientists have ordered ERS-1/2 and Envisat data from ESA. Full Story

2011-05-21 The Earth Science Data Discovery and Access services developed by Terradue in the context of GENESI-DR and GENESI-DEC projects were demonstrated to the 16th GEOSS Architecture and Data Committee meeting hosted by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva last May 2nd. The demonstration showed the potential of the system to allow the real time discovery, access, and use (visualize, process on demand…) of space, in situ and other data types located in distributed and federated repositories/catalogues. Full Story

2011-05-11 Terradue delivers a new interface to the G-POD that upgrades the web services in accordance to the Web Processing Service (WPS) Specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). With the ESA Earth Observation (EO) Grid Processing-on-Demand (G-POD) environment, the European Space Agency (ESA) offers on-line access to data, together with an attached computing infrastructure to host and run the partner's applications. Full Story

2011-04-15 Since its launch in 2005, G-POD Earth Observation service number kept growing. This drew to a growth on the number of users and data processed on G-POD computing resources. G-POD’s success led to the need of revisiting the Man-Machine-Interface to accommodate effective tools to effectively manage services, tasks and other elements of G-POD. This scenario gave birth to G-POD version 2.0 that will provide a large number of enhancements. Full Story

2011-04-05 Terradue was awarded a new contract by the European Space Agency to develop the cloud middleware and infrastructure to support Earth Observation application developed by Scientist on virtual Sandboxes. The project aims to exploit at best the Cloud Computing paradigm for hand-off management of non-critical systems and to develop services allowing Scientists to develop and test their new applications within a virtual platform; prior to their deployment and exploitation. Full Story

2011-03-30 Following increased request of past ASAR products - far beyond their availability at the rolling archives, ESA is making available the ASAR data accumulated over years at our Grid stores. The ASAR Product selection and download service available in the SSE Portal uses the G-POD infrastructure to provide a Catalogue for selection and download of ASAR products to all CAT-1 Users. The service interfaces with the Grid storage system to provide access to all the ASAR datasets; these products have been systematically copied from the ESA Rolling Archives and available since years. Although the service is restricted to CAT-1 projects, access is granted to other users pending the acceptance of a license agreement with ESA. Full Story

2011-01-07 The extension of G-POD capabilities to UK-PAC is hence highly motivated by the addition into the G-POD data portfolio of the EO product archive maintained at UK-PAC (and mainly its 20 years of multi-mission combined (A)ATSR archive), bringing G-POD computing elements close to this archive with high accessibility bandwidth to offer the possibility to process it to higher level products following the G-POD concept. Full Story

2010-09-20 The FP7 mOSAIC project aims to develop an open-source platform that enables applications to negotiate Cloud services as requested by their users. Using the Cloud ontology, applications will be able to specify their service requirements and communicate them to the platform via the innovative API. The platform will implement a multi-agent brokering mechanism that will search for services matching the applications’ request, and possibly compose the requested service if no direct hit is found. The platform will facilitate competition between Cloud providers, who, in return, will be able to reach customers they could not reach before. Full Story

2010-04-23 GENESI-DEC stands for Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Earth Community and it is the acronym for a new project under the FP7 programme. The project is led by ESA and it started on May 13th 2010. Terradue, together with Telespazio (Italy), DLR (Germany), MARIS - Mariene Informatie Service (Netherlands), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy), IT Innovation Centre / University of Southampton (UK), Join Research Centre of the European Commission (EC) and the Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (Italy) are part of the consortium. Full Story

2009-10-20 The new EU-funded project D4Science-II ('Data infrastructure ecosystem for science') has held its kick-off meeting from 13 to 16 October in Pisa, Italy. It is set to establish 'virtual research environments' that will offer significantly enhanced services to scientists without high development and maintenance costs. Full Story

2009-07-23 Terradue was awarded a contract with the European Space Agency to evaluate and develop a Cloud Interface on the Earth Observation Grid. In the frame of the EO G-POD (EO Grid Processing on-Demand) project for Terradue will provide an operational interface to storage and computing resources available on the Amazon Cloud. Full Story

2009-04-07 The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks set to collapse. The beginning of what appears to be the demise of the ice bridge began this week when new rifts forming along its centre axis resulted in a large block of ice breaking away. Full Story

2009-02-04 The workshop follows last years' successful events covering Grid and e-Collaboration technologies and standards, highly relevant for today's rapidly evolving e-Science infrastructures dedicated to Earth Science and Space applications. The technology focus in this year's workshop is on digital repositories, but also on presenting updates on recent e-Infrastructure developments, reviewing the state of the art. Full Story

2008-11-21 The INSPIRE Implementing Rules for Discovery Services were published in draft form on November 4th 2008. This draft was sent to the European Commission for final revision after one round of consultation with registered interested parties (SDICs/LMOs). This report assumes that the contents of Draft 3.0 will not materially differ from the final legislated version and talks of the impact of the changes performed Full Story

2008-08-14 The Rai Tre's Okkupati show dedicated its 3rd August emission to the ITECHSPAZIO program. Presenting this program from the BIC Lazio (Bussiness Innovation Centre of Lazio Region) and the European Space Agency (ESA), the broadcast shows the integrated pre-incubation and incubation actions that enable the transformation of advance research ideas and concepts into successful business ventures. Terradue was the first company selected and shown as a successful example of the ITECHSPAZIO program. Full Story

2008-06-12 Previously we looked at how, in the abstract, an OpenSearch-based approach could meet the INSPIRE requirements for discovery services. In this article Jo offers some reflections on how we got to our prototype implementation of an OpenSearch interface to a geospatial metadata repository. Full Story

2008-05-23 Terradue has released the very first public version of duetopia as open source and hosted in google code pages. This version presents the initial implementation of the libraries to provide import and export from common standard formats into a shared model (ISO 19115, ISO 19139, FGDC, RDF/XML) Full Story

2008-04-11 During the 3rd through 5th of June, 2008, the BEinGRID project will be hosting its Industry Days in Barcelona, Spain, in a shared venue at the Barceló Hotel Sants with the 23rd Open Grid Forum Conference (OGF23). The event will highlight the best of BEinGRID, the European Union's largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research through the sixth research Framework Programme (FP6), including selected demos of the current 18 Business Experiments, as well as key guest speakers from the software and services industry. Full Story

2008-03-10 The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate, but it must be easily accessible in order to apply it to the global needs relating to the state of the Earth. GENESI-DR (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories), an ESA-led, European Commission (EC)-funded two-year project, is taking the lead in providing reliable, easy, long-term access to Earth Science data via the Internet. Full Story

2008-02-06 In this installment we're walking through implementing a simple spatial data search service using the OpenSearch protocol. For those of us based in Europe and working with publicly-funded data, a key to "future-proofing" spatial data search is to make sure an interface complies with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules on Discovery Services. Full Story