DestinE Core Service Platform Framework

Destination Earth (DestinE) Initiative is a programme of the European Commission’s DG-CNECT directorate for developing and exploiting a highly accurate digital model of the Earth, with the objectives of monitoring and predicting the interactions between natural phenomena and human activities. This initiative will support the European Commission to achieve the sustainable development objectives and will contribute to the European Green Deal and Digital Strategy. Along with the two entrusted entities ECMWF and EUMETSAT, ESA contributes in DestinE development and implementation. Concretely, ESA is responsible of developing the platform serving as single access point to users to DestinE ecosystem. DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP) integrates and operates an open ecosystem of services (also referred to as DESP Framework) to support DestinE-data exploitation and information sharing for the benefit of DestinE users and Third-Party entities. The industrial activity presented here corresponds to the starting point for DESP development. It includes the setup and definition of DESP Framework, as well as the implementation of key essential services such as user identification, authentication, and authorization service; infrastructure as a service with storage, network, and CPU/GPU capabilities; data access and retrieval service, in particular from the DestinE Data Lake operated by EUMETSAT, as it is the backbone for the data generated by ECMWF’s Digital Twin Engine; data traceability and harmonization services; basic software suite service for local data exploitation; data and software catalogue services; and 2D/3D data visualization service.