Towards a JRC Earth Observation Data and Processing Platform

The Copernicus programme of the European Union with its numerous Sentinel satellites operated by the European Space Agency are effectively making Earth Observation (EO) entering the big data era. This means that most current application projects cannot be addressed with conventional techniques. That is, the EO data revolution brough by Copernicus needs to be matched by a processing revolution. Existing approaches such as those based on the processing of massive archives of Landsat data are reviewed and the concept of the Joint Research Centre Earth Observation Data and Processing platform is briefly presented.JRC.E.1-Disaster Risk Managemen