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| ESA Sentinel 2 image of Lake Amadeus in Australia... |
Excluding the obvious good news of more people using ESA data, two points leap out at me:
** The regional data hub will also provide a high-performance environment in which all the data can be analysed and applied at full scale to big regional challenges like the blue economy, sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation
I wonder what the high performance hub entails? A cloud-based processing environment? You certainly need a beefy machine to process Sentinel data and I know that from personal experience of the Irish coastline - Australia would really be something else.
** Under the arrangement, GA will also act as a coordinating point for European partners to obtain access to Australian in-situ data, which is made available through the efforts of many Australian government agencies, research partnerships and universities.
That is very useful. One of the great things about EO data is that in theory an Irish company could compete against an Australian project for a project in Australia. The data is there and there are no restrictions for having to be on-site, unless you need ground control or other in-situ datasets for validation/calibration. This will help to a certain extent.
Looking forward to hearing more.
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