1. cwa.infoaas.eu

2. What for ?
Helping the Earth Observation (EO) community to tackle the challenges coming from the digital economy
Supporting EARSC initiative for creating a European MarketPlace for EO Services*
Promoting INFOrmation as a Service (INFOaaS) based on Earth Observation data and services
Bringing value to public and private end-users able and willing to pay such INFOaaS services *

3. Background & Rationale
Initiated at the 4th Ground Segment Coordination Body (GSCB) Workshop on the 24th of September 2015 at ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) *
Open to European industry stakeholders addressing Earth Observation (EO) Services, willing to contribute and sharing the same objectives
Working together overcoming fragmentation, at the EU level
Joining European forces : EO Services (EARSC) and ICT (BDVA, EGI, Helix Nebula)
Demonstrating that European industry is able to deliver to public and private entities « INFOrmation as a Service » (INFOaaS) derived from Earth Observation
Leveraging €B 7+ EU & ESA investments related to Copernicus & Sentinels
Testing value chain(s) and business model(s)
Pulling the market by stimulating demand, focusing on public and private end-users able and willing to subscribe to paying services *

4. High level Workflow

5. Data Hub Sentinels Members Partners Commercial IaaS R&D+I IaaS
MarketPlace Tier
Providers / Brokers for EO Services & INFOaaS
Provider C
Provider A
Provider B
Broker D
Platform Tier
DaaS, PaaS, EO Services & INFOaaS Providers
Data Hub
Sentinels
Members
Partners
Infrastructure Tier
Providers / Brokers
for ICT Services (IaaS)
Commercial IaaS
R&D+I IaaS
....

7. Information providers & brokers (INFOaaS)
MarketPlace Tier
Information providers & brokers (INFOaaS)
Front-end
Promoting
Brokering
Selling
COMMON INTERFACES
Back-end
Certifying
Order Processing
Delivering & Billing
Reporting & Business Intelligence
Platform Tier

8. Copernicus Core Services
MarketPlace Tier
COMMON INTERFACES
Platform Tier
EO Services Providers
Bespoke Services
M2M Services
Expertise
Integrated Platforms
Platform Providers
Toolbox
Software as a Service
Platform as a Service
Docker
Container
Open Source
COTS
OpenMOLE
Data Tier
Copernicus Core Services
Data as a Service
Commercial Data
Open Data
Infrastructure Tier