The document outlines the implementation, packaging, and deployment of cross-cloud EO Applications – A step forward for greater efficiency and bringing the ‘user to the data.’

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published Best Practice for Earth Observation Application Package. The new OGC Best Practice is a guide for developers that wish to package and deploy Earth Observation (EO) Applications for a selected Exploitation Platform.

An EO Exploitation Platform is a collaborative virtual work environment that provides, through one coherent set of standard interfaces, the mechanisms to deliver applications and access the EO data, and the ICT resources required to work with them. For an overview of the concept, and OGC’s contributions to it, see the article published in GeoConnexion Magazine entitled An app store for Big Data by OGC’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Dr. Ingo Simonis.