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In recent years the need for accessing historical Earth Observation data information has greatly increased, driven by long term scientific and environmental monitoring. The need to preserve such data indefinitely has led to the establishment of the Long-Term Data Preservation (LTDP) guidelines for Earth Observation. However to make full use of this data, it is necessary to have sufficient quality information available to be assured about the data quality.
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ESA has currently a mixture of fixed physical and virtual infrastructure. There are some activities which already make use of dynamic infrastructure (private cloud) for their own needs but this is a minority and still in the early phases. On the other hand, the Gaia mission is using public (Amazon) cloud services for data processing.
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