Analysis of alignment required to link and integrate with Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

This deliverable presents the initial findings from Task 5.1, which explored the integration of the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) openEO Federation with the TERRAVISION platform. The original objective was to leverage openEO's standardized API and the CDSE infrastructure to develop and expose scalable, reusable EO services. However, some practical limitations have been identified, especially concerning the accessibility of high-resolution, non-public Copernicus Contributing Mission (CCM) data, currently posing significant challenges to achieving the full objectives.

Although openEO provides a powerful abstraction layer for EO data processing, the reliance on private datasets substantially reduces the relevance and reusability of the resulting services in a larger community. As a result, while public Sentinel data remains accessible and usable via openEO, the integration of CCM data into service workflows might remain cumbersome and unscalable for the wider community.

Nonetheless, the CDSE openEO Federation remains a valuable asset for TERRAVISION. It supports several key activities: facilitating access to public EO data, enabling the development of Analysis Ready Data (ARD) workflows, publishing of reusable building blocks as services, and offering potential for deploying a dedicated TERRAVISION openEO backend. Collaboration between partners such as ICCS and VITO continues, with a shared interest in maximizing the integration of project results into the CDSE openEO Federation.