Scalable Processing Of Copernicus Sentinel satellite Images Using Argo Workflows

Kurzfassung

With the goal of using a pool of resources dynamically for different applications we migrated scientific Earth Observation processors from dedicated Virtual Machines into a centralized cloud. Processing in this environment works using off-the-shelf components like Kubernetes, Docker and Argo Workflows. We were able to benefit from sharing data, tools and infrastructure in between processors. To showcase the new workflow or pipeline by means of an example we use our burnt area monitoring processor based on Sentinel-3 satellite data. A new architecture based on existing components was established, which we plan to extend it in the future.