Customer: European Space Agency (ESA)

Programme: Copernicus

Supply Chain: ESA > ITC - U. TWENTE > CS Group SPACE

Context

EO AFRICA R&D Facility is a flagship initiative of EO AFRICA with an overarching long term (>10 years) goal of supporting an African European collaboration to enable an active research community and creative innovation processes for a continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa.

CS Group responsabilities for EO Africa R&D Facility are as follows:

• Design, development, intégration, maintenance, training materials

The features are as follows:

• Main features: * Virtual Research Environment * Open-source software solutions * Jupyter Hub * Virtual desktop * Image processing software * EO data access * EO training materials

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Build an African-European R&D partnership to facilitate sustainable adoption of EO and related space technologies in Africa, in harmony with the “Agenda 2063 – The Africa we want” of the African Union Commission (AUC).

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• V-Cycle

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Kubernetes, Docker

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	marker _ PC
Operating System(s)	marker _ Linux
Programming language(s)	marker _ Python
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	marker _ Docker, Kubernetes, Jupyter notebooks, QGIS, SNAP