ESA phi-week this year is centred around ESA's ambitious initiative for a Digital Twin Earth - "an AI-driven digital replica of our planet". That is certainly going to depend on good interoperability between systems. Fortunately that is also a key issue being addressed by the ESA-funded project, Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA).

We are presenting EOEPCA at Phi Week via an e-poster video, which ESA have published on their YouTube EO Open Science Channel. Lead Architect, Richard Conway gives a simple introduction to the project and the architecture. We will be online to answer questions on Thursday 1 Oct from 16:30 CEST, via the phi-week virtual conference platform. 

After that, you can still watch the 5 minute video presentation.

On Tuesday 8 September,  the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is hosting a webinar to present experiences and lessons learned on how to best exploit Big EO data stores and how to enable externally developed applications as additional services.

This is a significant result of the OGC Earth Observation Application Pilot, sponsored by the ESA funded project EOEPCA. The activity brings together processing server providers, implementing the OGC Application Deployment and Execution Service (ADES), with application developers, who implement their typical use case using the OGC architecture, e.g. "dockerise" their application, deploy and execute. The idea is for app developers to deploy their app to multiple servers to evaluate the architecture and provide feedback. 

EOEPCA has embraced this architecture, so the evaluation/feedback is of great interest.

The main pilot page is here https://www.ogc.org/projects/initiatives/eoa-pilot.

The webinar page is here https://www.ogc.org/ogcevents/earth-observation-applications-data-architecture-presentation-webinar.

Full details of the EOECPA project here https://eoepca.github.io/