PROBA-V MEP Roadmap

January 2016 – pre-release

Basic functionality was pre-released after 3 months of project’ Kick-off with the following applications:
- Time series viewer application on limited data (PROBA-V bands) and only supporting pre-defined regions.
- Full-resolution viewing application on PROBA-V 1km data.
- N-daily compositor application on PROBA-V 1 km (full archive) and 300 m data (most recent year only).
- ESA Cloud Toolbox, enriched with sample PROBA-V data (all collections over Europe from March 2015 till October 2015) & support for Python and the SNAP toolbox.
Web portal with access to the released applications.
Pre-release of the platform on an operational OpenStack and Hadoop cluster, deployed in the VITO data center.

October 2016 – first iteration

Secured and high-available OpenStack and Hadoop clusters, which are ready to support external users.
Full-resolution viewing application on PROBA-V data, i.e. including 300 m and 100 m resolution.
First demonstration of interactive notebooks.
First preparations to support the beta users of the platform by providing Virtual Machines (VMs).
Documentation/tutorials explaining the way to use the platform.

December 2016 - first iteration / part 2

First iteration of the Data Manager integrated on the platform, to support on-demand data provision.

November 2017 – second iteration

User-defined polygons and single pixels in the Time Series Viewer.
Interactive notebooks.
Support external users on the OpenStack cluster in a Virtual Machine with remote desktop access.
Support workloads from external users on the Hadoop environment.
Web services according OGC standards: WPS, WCS, WMTS
Job control monitoring service.
Data Manager extensions: support limited downloads of Sentinel-2 and Landsat data on the platform for Cal/Val activities, ... .

Spring 2018 – third iteration