1. ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Supersites entry portal Presented by Francesco Casu (CNR/IREA) on behalf of Wolfgang Lengert (ERS and ADM Aeolus Mission Manager)

2. ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Supersites Exploitation Platform (SSEP) -SSEP is meant to allow scientists to easily exploit EO data resources by combining fast data access, processing facilities and flexibility for the user own data analysis -Data Access: up to 100TB of data spanning an observation period of 20 years (ERS/ENVISAT from Virtual Archive 4) -Processing Services: enable users to invoke processing of data available in the repository using CNR SBAS, NEST, GAMMA -Platform Services: availability of virtual hosts (sandboxes) -Community: 150 scientists, collaboration with the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) and USGS

3. Slide 3 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Universities Research Centers SMEs e-Infrastructure: - Interface - Computing - Data Mining EC projects? China? Japan? Africa ? Crowd sourcing Supersites Exploitation Platform (SSEP)

4. Slide 4 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Strategic Plan  Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure  Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy  Create governance structure  Define funding schemes Strategic Plan  Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure  Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy  Create governance structure  Define funding schemes To support the computing capacity needs for the ATLAS experiment Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large genomes, for a deeper insight into evolution and biodiversity To create an Earth Observation platform, focusing on earthquake and volcano research Adopters Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud

5. Slide 5 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use SSEP Work in Progress and Next Steps (2013) 1.Open the data access to scientific community 2.Complete and deploy tools (such as SBAS-InSAR time series from CNR and Commercial tools from SMEs and open source) on demand on HN 3.Allow users (scientists) to process data on dedicated sandboxes; for algorithm development and small data processing 4.Provide users (scientists) to access large data processing where to deploy and exploit their applications via a portal Aiming at the creation of an Ecosystem

6. Slide 6 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Scientists Data providers IT Suppliers Funding Bodies R&D LabsSME’s Downstream industry Contributors to Ecosystem

7. Slide 7 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Supersites Exploitation Platform Concept Mock-up

8. Slide 8 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Supersites Exploitation Platform Concept Mock-up

9. Slide 9 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Seamless access to all data is still missing We will work on the draft document currently circulated to make it fit to the overall system Final Considerations