Online Data Access and Big Data Processing in the German Copernicus Data and Exploitation Environment (CODE-DE)

Abstract

We present architecture and various capabilities of CODE-DE (Copernicus Data and Exploitation Platform - Deutschland, www.code-de.org) which is the German operational environment for accessing and processing Copernicus Sentinel products, a so-called Copernicus collaborative ground segment activity. Since March 2017 the element for online data access to Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 products is operational and tapped by over 1200 registered users until September 2018. During this period more than 100,000 products were downloaded and the global catalogue is continuously updated with all Sentinel product metadata and references a data volume of 800 TByte accessible on a rolling archive. Since November 2017 the element for big data processing is operational, where registered users automatically process and analyze data using various methodologies into value-added products. Special features enhance the user experience, like the full resolution browsing at 10 meter resolution of Sentinel-2 products giving interactive insight to the catalog contents. In 2018 the full spectrum of available Sentinel-3 products also are offered online.