A Value-Chain Analysis for the Copernicus Earth Observation Infrastructure Evolution: A Knowledgebase of Users, Needs, Services, and Products

This article reviews and analyzes the needs of Earth observation (EO) services' users, stakeholders, and beneficiaries. It identifies the key elements of the value chain of the European EO infrastructure and builds a comprehensive knowledgebase of those elements, represented as a relational database. The entities in the database are users, needs, services, and products. The database also includes ...