Standards and EO Data Platforms

In the digital bio-economy like in many other sectors, standards play an important role. With “Standards”, we refer here to the protocols that describe how data and the data-exchange are defined to enable digital exchange of data between devices. This chapter evaluates how Big Data, cloud processing, and app stores together form a new market that allows exploiting the full potential of geospatial data. This chapter focuses on the essential cornerstones that help make Big Data processing a more seamless experience for bioeconomy data. The described approach is domain-independent, thus can be applied to agriculture, fisheries, and forestry as well as earth observation sciences, climate change research, or disaster management. This flexibility is essential when it comes to addressing real world complexities for any domain, as no single domain has sufficient data available within its own limits to tackle the major research challenges our world is facing.