Digital Earth Observation infrastructures and initiatives: a review framework based on open principles

Tables

Table 1. Data providers: they make EO datasets available within infrastructures;
Table 2. Cloud-based geoprocessing platforms: they offer computational capacity in line with the paradigm “bring the user to the data”;
Table 3. Brokers and catalogues: they offer discovery services by harvesting data from existing catalogues;
Table 4. Thematic hubs and Research infrastructures: they incorporate EO data relevant to specific thematic domains, such as agriculture, biodiversity and atmosphere;
Table 5. Data cubes: they implement a multidimensional array structure, on which one can load several bands and perform slicing and algebraic operations;
Table 6. Virtual infrastructures: they place additional layers on top of existing platforms with the goal to facilitate data access and increase the discoverability of and interoperability between such platforms;
Table 7. Initiatives and programmes: EO-related, publicly funded programmes.

The lists of platforms that we identified is by no means exhaustive. If you think we missed something, please, make a pull request.