Following a staged approach, EO-Cube starts with a prototype service of a fully standards-based open GRSS EO datacube infrastructure, for seamless embedding into the overall infrastructure. It makes use of state of the art array database technology with datacube query support, federation capabilities, and appropriate access control. A federation with existing Petascale EO datacube assets will enable completely location-transparent distributed datacube fusion.


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Further, current technology trends - such as from ISO and OGC with the forthcoming ARD and Datacube WGs - will be duly considered. By the end of the activity the service will be ready for seamless transition to sustained operation - initially operated in the AWS cloud, it can be moved or multiplied to any common cloud; the federation can also span heterogeneous clouds.