ENABLING SAR DATA EXPLOITATION BY PROCESSING ON-DEMAND

Since many years the ESA Research and Service Support (RSS) service provides resources to support Earth Observation (EO) data exploitation. Significant value has been delivered in these years to EO researchers in terms of cost, time and resource saving, thus enabling enhanced scientific productivity. In the new Sentinel era, recently started with the launch of Sentinel-1 in April 2014, data volume and processing requirements will be more challenging than before. The EO scientific community accessing and using RSS resources will therefore experience even greater benefits in terms of cost, time and resources savings, for activities related to data procurement, handling, storage, access, and processing.