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EO Data Platform
Process Earth observation data where it lives
Satellite data, processing tools and compute in one cloud environment for accelerated development of data-driven solutions. Build and run EO services next to the archive.
- 100+ PB of EO data on-site
- EU-owned, EU-governed
- Open APIs, no lock-in
Solution Overview
Bring your compute to your data
Downloading satellite data to process locally is slow, costly and hard to scale. The EO Data Platform removes the transfer step: you work where the data already sits.
- Discover, access, process and analyse EO data next to one of Europe's largest satellite archives.
- Scalable compute, catalogue APIs, Jupyter Notebooks
- Built-in processing services in one governed environment, run entirely from EU data centres.
Secure and controlled access with resource governance and access management
Standard interfaces — S3, OGC, catalogue APIs — keep your pipelines portable
Data stays under EU jurisdiction, with access you control and audit per project
Your benefits
Why leading institutions move their EO work here
Delivery speed and cost cuts in transfers, idle hardware, and the team that need to manage both.
Faster time to insight
Processing starts where the data sits, so analyses that used to wait days for downloads run the same day.
Lower cost of ownership
No hardware to buy, refresh or overprovision. You pay for the compute and storage you use, in euros, with usage tracking per project.
Scales with your workload
Burst to compute more for a reprocessing campaign, then scale back down. Capacity follows the work, without waiting on a procurement cycle.
One environment for the whole team
Catalogue, compute, notebooks and delivery services in one place, with shared access controls. Less tool-stitching, easier collaboration across organisations, and efficient resource utilisation.
Sovereignty you can prove
Run from EU data centres under EU jurisdiction, with auditable access controls. With open and standards-based architecture, there is no vendor lock-in.
Use Cases
Where the EO Data Platform earns its keep
The same environment serves agencies monitoring land and climate, companies selling EO analytics, and institutions that need answers under time pressure.
Large-scale land and climate monitoring
Agencies track land cover, water and climate change without managing petabytes locally. Analysts find imagery in the catalogue and process it in place, on schedule or on demand.
Building commercial EO services
EO startups develop and validate algorithms directly within the platform for quick app development, testing, and deployment applications with API. No infrastructure spend before revenue.
Situational awareness and crisis response
During floods, fires or maritime incidents, government institutions can generate flood maps, vessel detections and damage assessments in one environment and share them across agencies.
Architecture
Reliable infrastructure for EO data processing
Four layers cover the full path from raw data to delivered service, with identity, governance and billing built into the platform itself.
Platform management
Identity and access management, project administration, usage monitoring, quotas and billing. One place to control who can reach what, and what it costs.
User access
Data Explorer for browsing and visualising the catalogue, plus web interfaces and APIs for everything users do on the platform.
Data access
Unified access to EO datasets over HTTP and S3-compatible interfaces, with catalogue APIs for search and filtering.
Processing and analytics
Virtual machines, Jupyter Notebooks and high-performance environments next to the data. Built-in EO processors run on demand; OGC services deliver the results.
The components behind EO Data Platform
Building blocks for the infrastructure
EO Products & Services
Earth Observation Data
Access and manage large-scale EO datasets from multiple satellite missions through a unified, scalable repository built for analytics, AI, and operational workflows.
EO Products & Services
Data Ingestion
Manage metadata and share EO data via catalogues, APIs, S3, HTTP and OGC services without unnecessary data downloads.
EO Products & Services
Exos
Unify access to distributed EO data across multiple storage sites with scalable, resilient S3-compatible infrastructure built for large repositories.
EO Products & Services
Earth Observation data catalogue
Access and process extensive EO datasets directly in the cloud, with fast discovery, flexible interfaces and no need to download.
Customer stories
Already running at scale
The platform model is production-tested: the same infrastructure serves Copernicus users worldwide and national programmes across Europe.
Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem
One of the biggest repositories of open and free Earth observation data immediately available for downloading, streamlining and on-demand processing.
Destination Earth Data Lake
A cloud based massive repository of data that provides the foundation for Destination Earth – a European Union’s flagship initiative to develop a highly accurate digital model of Earth, contributing to the European digital and green transformation.
CREODIAS
A cloud computing environment with an integrated multi-petabyte repository of Earth observation satellite data. It is the first commercial element of Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem.
CODE-DE
The German platform providing Earth observation data, enabling the processing of data obtained under the European Copernicus program, developed and operated by CloudFerro.
WEKEO
The DIAS hybrid cloud computing, built and operated by CloudFerro on behalf of the consortium, led by EUMETSAT, providing access to satellite data, in particular for monitoring the marine, terrestrial, atmosphere and climate environment.
Compliance
Certified at every level
ISO/IEC 27001/27017/27018
Standards for security, privacy and data protection in cloud environments.
Attestation C5
Independently audited cloud security aligned with BSI requirements.
BSI-200-1
Information security based on the established German BSI IT-Grundschutz standard.
EU Facility Security Clearance – Level III
Authorisation to protect EU classified information up to EU SECRET level.
Frequently Asked Questions
Before you commit
The questions platform and programme managers ask before moving their EO work here.
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