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Gain insight on... Data cubes, to enable and facilitate Earth Observation applications

Data Cubes make EO application more easily accessible to SMEs, NGOs and other types of organisations, and in return can help increase the EO market uptake.



 An era of data

  • We live in an era of data. Data are all around us. Their volumes are continuously increasing. We continuously download them on our smartphones and use them for various purposes.
  • Significant technological advances and substantial reductions in the costs of operating satellites, launch services, supporting infrastructure, data storage and transmission technologies have led to a dramatic rise in the availability of satellite imagery for civilian use in recent years
  • We are more and more on Earth. Our impact on the Earth system continuously increases, not always in good. Our environment is changing fast. Fast analysis and seamless integration of data is becoming increasingly necessary.  
  • Inexperienced users such as SMEs or start-ups often lack the technical or scientific skills needed to process fast large volumes of data, and integrate data streams from different sources into their internal environments.

Data cubes can help SMEs powering future EO applications

  • They can be a real asset in boosting user uptake.
  • Data analysis can become accessible to SMEs, NGOs and other types of organisations and in return help increase the market uptake.
  • The complex, time and resources consuming, corrections and processing actions, happen in the cube. Users are then provided with highly standardised and harmonised time series of satellite data available through a user-friendly interface.
  • They can help them making commercial use of satellite data and derived products for diverse services and applications.


Several data cube projects are underway in EU, some presented below.

  • The Euro Data Cube platform - https://www.eurodatacube.com/, lowers the technical barriers between extracting useful information from Earth Observation (EO) data and preparing them for analysis.
  • The H2020 project Data Cube Service for Copernicus (DCS4COP) - http://dcs4cop.eu/, is more specialised in Copernicus data. It created a service to integrate Sentinel data, Copernicus service products and user supplied data in a data cube system. It offers environmental information, particularly on water quality and focussing on the coastal and inland water markets - https://eodatabee.eu/
  • The Earth Server Data Cube - https://www.earthserver.eu/, provides a uniform data space for spatio-temporal Earth data. Its goal is to create a “single point of entry” for Earth data and services for the entire planet. 


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