"EO-VAS is delivering features that are currently unmatched in the world. Revolutionary innovations, coming in several dimensions, promise to change the perception of Earth Observation services by bringing them into everyday real-life usage. Unique features that clearly differentiate EO-VAS project out of currently existing solutions are:
- On-line and free access to EO processing capabilities; EO-Toolset will be the only WEB/Cloud solution offering completely free-of-charge access to EO design capabilities. Design and publishing of EO processing chains (EO VAS) will be free of charge!
- Publishing capabilities are delivering new commercial channel for EO VAS, without any globally existing or comparable alternative! Domain-experts will be offered the only free-of-charge tool, enabling them to start selling their knowledge. Charging in a form of fixed costs (see explanation in chapter 2.2.1) will start only after successful sales of their EO VAS is realised.
- Providing end-users with access to unprecedented richness of EO VAS solutions. Free design & publishing capabilities will act as an accelerator for the birth of new EO VASs. In its mature stage, this will result in enormous richness of services, enabling end-users to choose service that fits their requirements the best. Ease of use, rich variety of available EO VASs, accompanied by comprehensible meta-data info and how-touse
manuals, low cost, on-time info and high added value should attract end users to select EO-Toolset as a preferred window into the world of EO.
- Temporal character; EO-VAS project will be a first specialised and freely available solution for time-series processing of EO data.
- Predefined pre-processed input data; EO-Toolset will be the first solution that will offer out-of-the-box preprocessed products in a form of biophysical indices (Level-2B). Domain experts will find it useful, as it will
eliminate the ""non-interesting"" technical work with spatial data and let them focus into solving their domain challenges.
Our main ambition is for EO-Toolset to become a favourite choice when considering the usage of temporal EO data. Similarly as GoogleEarth assumed a leading role when searching geographical data, we are targeting the same position in the case of temporal based EO VAS. Even more, while GoogleEarth can be considered closed system, EO-Toolset is intended to be widely open to both, service provider and service consumers, all with the ambition to become:
- Virtual market place for EO VAS products. The concept of virtual market place introduces completely NEW BUSSINESS MODEL in the area of EO services = model, benefiting all participants in EO value chain - from
data providers, through service providers to end-users.
- EO VAS innovation hub: by fostering the development of EO services, by becoming a virtual meeting place for the exchange of new ideas and by encouraging experimenting with new approaches and
applications of EO VAS. Availability of EO processing tools and availability of data (Copernicus) should ultimately result in generation of new ideas, finally, all of it resulting in new business opportunities.
- Pre-processing engine for other EO domain services. Full integrability means that EO-Toolset’s biophysical indices or EO-Toolset’s services (EO VASs) can be consumed by any-other EO service to deliver completely new added value. In this way, EO-Toolset’s EO VAS can be complemented with other data (for instance: proprietary in-situ data) and integrated into other processing chains/systems = EO-Toolset becoming a “pre-processing engine” for other systems.
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