Customer: European Space Agency (ESA)

Programme: Generic

Supply Chain: ESA > CS ROMANIA > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for Tool Augmentation by user enhancements and Orchestration are as follows:

• Project owner and the master developer (master branch)
• Specification & Design
• Maintenance

The features are as follows:

• Visual integration of EO processing toolboxes
• A pre-defined set of Docker containers for Orfeo Toolbox, SNAP, GDAL and Python 2.7
• Visual definition of processing workflows by drag-and-drop and easy parametrization
• Integration of user-defined algorithms in the processing workflows
• Visual definition of execution topologies
• Orchestrated execution of workflows such as Torque or SLURM
• Self-contained containerized execution on remote nodes
• Basic visual monitoring of executions and topology nodes resources

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• TAO platform (stands for Tool Augmentation by user enhancements and Orchestration) is a lightweight, generic integration and distributed orchestration framework.

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Software V-Model

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Spring Framework
• A simple view of the TAO platform model split among four main macro-components

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Operating System(s)	Linux
Programming language(s)	Java, Python
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	Git, Docker
Main COTS library(ies)	PostgreSQL, SNAP, Orfeo Toolbox, Slurm, Torque