FEDEO
PURPOSE
FedEO (Federated Earth Observation missions access) provides a unique entry point to a growing number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, EO European and Canadian missions. FedEO is deployed with ESA (European Space Agency) infrastructure as a gateway to:
- Provide brokered discovery, access and ordering capability to European/Canadian EO missions data based on HMA (Heterogeneous Missions Accessibility) interfaces;
- Implement the OpenSearch OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and other interfaces for an increased number of discoverable and accessible EO data collections;
- Implement the OpenSearch OGC interfaces for interfacing with CEOS Community Catalogues and Clients.
FedEO was initially developed as a prototype for GEO/GEOSS (Group on Earth Observations/Global Earth Observation System of Systems) and for EO-DAIL (Earth Observation Data Access & Integration Layer). It was consolidated after the CEOS Plenary in 2012 to facilitate access to European missions data in the international context and primarily in CEOS.
OBJECTIVES AND USE SCENARIOS
FedEO supports the following ESA EO Directorate Objectives:
- Ensure timely and easy access to all EO data resources (current and historical) to the broad data user community;
- Strengthen the ESA role in supporting national missions in both a European and global context;
- Establish and reinforce strategic cooperation with international partners and strengthen ESA role in coordinating and representing MSs in the international fora;
Through providing a gateway:
- to European EO data to facilitate discovery & access in the international context (e.g. GEO, CEOS) and the support to international initiatives and projects - (Scenario 1)
- for European users and projects (e.g. TEPs) to European and non-European EO data - (Scenario 2)
- facilitating ESA bilateral cooperation activities and data exchange (e.g. with NASA) – (Scenario 3)
FEDEO on line
Client
- EO Portal - for FedEO/OpenSearch Operation Instance
- SSE Portal - for FedEO/OpenSearch Test Instance
- SmartHma App - for FedEO/OpenSearch Production Instance
- Social Media App - for FedEO/OpenSearch Production Instance
- NASA CWICSmart Client - with FedEO OSDD
Web service interfaces
FedEO CSW (Catalogue Service for Web) and OpenSearch Server:
- OpenSearch Endpoint (for FedEO/OpenSearch Production Instance) – OGC 13-026r5
- OpenSearch Endpoint (for FedEO/OpenSearch Test Instance) – OGC 13-026r5
- CSW Service Endpoint (collections) – OGC 13-084r2
- CSW Service Endpoint (products) – OGC 06-131 (SOAP)
FEDEO PRESENTATIONS
- Working Group on Information Systems and Services Demo featuring Federated Earth Observation (FedEO), CEOS WGISS, YouTube, 29 October 2015.
- Federated Earth Observation (FedEO) Demo and Future Activities, CEOS WGISS Meeting #40, 1 October 2015, Harwell, United Kingdom.
- Federated Earth Observation (FedEO) Status, CEOS WGISS Meeting #39, 14 May 2015, Tsukuba, Japan.
- HMA for Science – Evolution, Final Presentation, 16 October 2014, Frascati, Italy.
- Federated Earth Observation (FedEO) OpenSearch Status, CEOS WGISS Meeting #38, 1 October 2014, Moscow, Russia.
- OGC 13-026 in FedEO, EO Product Metadata and OpenSearch SWG, 25 March 2014, OGC TC Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia.
RELATED INITIATIVES
- CEOS FedEO Web Page
- FedEO Operation and Maintenance wiki page
- FedEO Follow On ESA Project
- Ontology Based EO Search" (OBEOS) ESA Project
- Heterogeneous Missions Accessibility for Science (HMA-S) ESA project
- Heterogeneous Missions Accessibility for Science Evolution (HMA-SE) ESA project
- SMART-HMA (Android Client for FedEO)
HOW TO GUIDE FOR FEDEO PARTNER
CSW (Collections)
- FedEO Data Partner Guide – How to register data collections in the Collection Catalog for FedEO - (PDGS-FedEO-SPB-TN-15-0001, version 1.0, 22/04/2015)
OpenSearch
- FedEO Client Partner Guide – How to connect your Portal or Client to FedEO using OpenSearch – (PDGS-FEDEO-SPB-ICD-15-1174, version 1.1, 22/12/2015)
- FedEO Data Partner Guide – How to offer your agency satellite data for search and access through FedEO using OpenSearch - (PDGS-FedEO-SPB-TN-15-0001, version 1.0, 22/04/2015)
- CEOS OpenSearch Best Practice
FEDEO TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS
General
- FedEO-FO Architecture Document (to be published)
- FedEO-IDN ISO Metadata Alignment Technical Note (to be published)
- FedEO metrics (published by WGISS)
Metadata
- OGC 11-035r1, EO Collection and Service Discovery using the ebRIM Application Profile of CSW 2.0, 1.0, 26/03/2013
- OGC 10-157r3, Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements, 1.0.0, 12/06/2012
- OGC 10-157r4, Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements, 1.1, 10/06/2014
- OGC 08-167r2, Semantic annotations in OGC standards, Version 2.0, 10/10/2012
Service Bindings
- OGC 10-032r8, OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions, version 1.0.0, 14/04/2014.
- OGC 13-026r5, OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation, DRAFT 1.0.0, 29/10/2014
- OGC 13-084r2, OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile, 1.0, 28/04/2014
- OGC 06-141r6, Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products Interface Standard, Version 1.0.0, 09/01/2012.
- OGC 07-118r9, User Management Interfaces for Earth Observation Services, Version 1.1, 28/04/2014.
documentation and OPEN SOURCE software
- HMA-S Testbed – Open Source Demonstrator
- HMA-S Standards configuration management table and download
- HMA-S Executable Test Suite for OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions (OGC 10-032r8)
- HMA-S Executable Test Suite for OGC OpenSearch Earth Observation Extension (OGC 13-026r5)
- HMA-S EOP O&M Metadata Demonstrator – EOP O&M Catalog Server
- HMA-S EOP O&M Metadata Demonstrator – EOP O&M Catalog Client
- HMA-S Registry Information Model (EbRIM) Cataloguing ISO Metadata (CIM) Catalog Service Demonstrator
- INSPIRE HMA Transformation Module
- HMA-S OpenSearch, Feasibility Analysis and Download Demonstrator
- Executable Test Suite for OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions
- Executable Test Suite for the OpenSearch EO Extensions
- Test, Evaluation, And Measurement (TEAM) Engine
- SmartHma Android Client (for FedEO/OpenSearch Production Instance)
- REST Search Engine for EO Products