Oral Abstract

Oral Contribution (O6.2) Vicente Navarro (ESA)

Theme: Local and global cloud infrastructure for processing and storage

Multi Mission Science Exploitation and Preservation Platform

Nowadays Space and Earth observation data collected by space-borne and ground-based sensors, as well as other space applications such as Satellite Navigation, are promoting the adoption of Big Data technologies given the sheer volume of sensed data. In this context, downloading the data for its subsequent analysis has become a non-viable procedure.
Simultaneously, archives for ESA space science missions hosted at the ESAC Science Data Centre are being complemented by the new GNSS Science Support Centre that aims to consolidate a world-wide reference centre for the GNSS Community.
Traditionally, the scenario herewith depicted would have led to the implementation of vertical systems for these two different domains.
The ESAC Science Exploitation and Preservation Platform (SEPP) project builds on past experiences and existing systems to deliver a multi mission environment able to address upcoming science challenges implementing a unified, secured, scalable and extensible analysis framework. SEPP shall foster research and innovation through the integration of transversal big data, container and notebook technologies with domain specific ones like VO-Space, TAP or ADQL, among others. SEPP represents a cornerstone at the paradigm shift taking place across ESAC archives, characterized by the move of processing tools to the data, rather than the move of data to the users.
This work presents the status of the SEPP project so far and the challenges faced to integrate needs from different domains in a homogeneous framework. Both the system implemented and the key decisions enabling project’s goals are described. Finally, the future evolution of this platform is detailed.