Customer: European Commission (EC)

Programme: Copernicus

Supply Chain: EC > QWANT > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for SnapEarth project are as follows:

• Design, Development, Integration

The features are as follows:

• Index Sentinel images for easy access via a Qwant “EarthSearch” engine.
• 4 pilot projects aim to take advantage of this indexing with the implementation of the services: Agriculture, Press, Climate and Food-Security.
• The EarthSelf-Service enables any business or user to take advantage of highly scalable cloud environments for analysis, visualization and production of EO value-added services.

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Fostering EO market uptake thanks to natural and holistic access to added value data generated through cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies.

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Agile, Continuous integration

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Big data technologies and distributed cloud computing
• Access to the produced database “EarthSignature” and to satellite products
• Cloud agnosticity & multi DIAS hybridization
• Container based infrastructure with fast service deployment
• Integrated workflow engine
• Automatic monitoring and FinOps

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	Cloud, PaaS
Operating System(s)	Linux
Programming language(s)	Go, Python
Main COTS library(ies)	Kubernetes, Docker, Argo, EODAG, SafeScale, Elastic Stack, Fluentd, Graylog, Grafana