DEFINITION:

Technologies associated with provision of Earth Observation based data and information to user communities, support to data utilisation, applications and services, creation of higher level information products and the creation and provision of information-based services.

(Source: ESA TD 2E and PAE own elaboration)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. EO Data and Information Processing and Exploitation: Covers specific aspects of EO missions related to data and information acquisition, archiving, processing, dissemination, and quality control, and to mission planning. Also covers exploitation of federated and collaborative payload data ground segment services and data dissemination.
2. Applications and Services: Covers aspects related to EO based applications (e.g. algorithms, models, related environments, etc.), higher-level processing, information mining, information-based services, service support, outreach.
3. Information Systems and User Interfaces: Covers aspects related to systems for accessing data and information and user interface tools and methods.