Online monitoring data services for ecosystem indicators.

A key aim of the EU Horizon 2020 ECOPOTENTIAL project is to realize online monitoring data services for ecosystem indicators for the users’ community. WP6 activities and especially Task 6.4 provided resources and expertise for their development and deployment onto the Virtual Laboratory Platform (VL). Models, able to assimilate EO data, and applied within Task 6.2 and Task 6.3 were transformed into online data services. Experimentation, product generation and model integration into services took advantage of the pre-processed data delivered via the EO Data toolbox (Cloud Sandbox environment), maintained by WP3.2 (EO data processing tools). Processed data from WP4 and WP5 were used either as input data to models or as calibration/ validation data. These are stored in the project’s repository and accessible according to the Data Management Plan. Further modules (initially in the form of manual workflows developed in WP4) for the derivation of map and land cover feature products from EO data were also transformed to easy-to-initiate-and-use operational online data services; (i) either as stand-alone services or (ii) as workflow components to generate input for models. This way, the automated execution of models or modules by the users is integrated and mounted onto the open access Virtual Laboratory Platform (as described in Deliverables 10.1 and 10.2) and may make use of existing or new input EO data.