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EARSC’s extensive engagement with Earth observation user communities has highlighted the need for a common language to help service services providers and users arrive at a mutual understanding of the types of services that can be offered and the benefits that can be delivered. We have developed an Earth observation taxonomy that is not only a process of naming and classifying the EO services but additionally a tool to improve the understanding between these communities.  Image Added
The taxonomy includes a generic and comprehensive Under this context, this document presents a reduced version of the Del 4.3. from the CopHub.AC H2020 project, which outlines the third update of the EARSC taxonomy. The EARSC taxonomy has been carefully reviewed and includes for the first time a generic definition of available products and how those these form the basis for the delivery of the EO services (the combination of e.g. EO products, in-situ data, modelling etc.) to deliver contextualized knowledge to a service user). This taxonomy update, from both the market and thematic perspectives, has been conducted in close collaboration with the research community through the CopHub.Ac project. Inside this taxonomy, each catalogue of services contains specific services offered to citizens, business, government and other organisations. The taxonomy should be continuously updated to ensure its continued relevance in a fast-changing sector. We have made every effort to ensure that the structure is sufficiently robust to accommodate future market segments and thematic topics; as the market changes and grows, these changes will need to be incorporated in future taxonomy updates. We look forward to receiving stakeholders’ feedback and working with stakeholders in continuing this exciting evolution of the description and structuring of EO services. takes a two-sided approach, describing this common list of services from both the suppliers’ and users’ points of view. These two views are interconnected in the figure in your right and described in the links below. For more information contact Monica Miguel-Lago | |  Image Removed Image Added
| | This page provides the top-level structure for the breakdown of the EO services markets. There are 26 market sectors identified grouped into 6 categories (titles on the tabs) organised according to the EARSC Taxonomy. The information The chart above show the organisation of all EO services from the user’s perspective, i.e. from the market or sector within which any given service would be used. The Market view is organised: - By Market – Services are grouped Into 8 main markets, e.g. citizens, defense & security, infrastructure & transport…
- By Sectors – Each market is split into a number of more specific sectors corresponding to specific niches within that market to which the services apply e.g. the ‘Energy and mineral resources’ market contains the sectors ‘Renewable energy’, ‘Oil & gas’ and ‘Raw materials’. There are 26 sectors in total.
- By sector composition - examples are given
- Market Sector: this defines the area of the market for which EO services apply.
- Composition: gives examples of the types of organisation that make up the market sector . It e.g. users in managed living resources refer to human activities exploiting natural organic resources (users in agricultural commodities, trading, agricultural production and horticulture, agricultural services, agriculture machinery, agriculture and rural development policies, etc. This helps define the sector .
- EO Services: Each EO Service is unique within the Thematic services taxonomy but may apply in several different market segments. For each EO service, there may be many specific products which are being offered and which are described in a section on the application service page.
This page shows the taxonomystructure of the EO services organised thematically. There are 6 classes of service as shown on the tabs. Each class contains a number of thematic sectors into which the EO services are grouped.- Thematic Sector: this is the classification of the grouped EO services.
- Client view: These are each EO service described as a client may wish.
- Key-words: these define the products which can make up an EO service.
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For more information contact Monica Miguel-Lago - and its EO-related needs.
| The chart above shows the organisation of all EO services from the supplier’s perspective. The Thematic view is organised: - Into 6 main Domains (or classes) - This refers to the various applications of EO technologies and stems from the different scientific schools from which different approaches have developed, e.g. marine applications have been developed by a different community than geohazard or atmospheric products.
- By Areas - These Domains are then split into 32 thematic segments (or Areas) below that showing specialisations within those field, e.g. within the Marine Domain we include Areas on the detection of ships, marine pollution, sea ice…
- By service descriptions and keywords – a non-exhaustive list of keywords are provided for each Area that help to define that Area. These keywords are presented in relation to a fixed set of verbs that describe the action undertaken in the service, e.g. monitor, detect, track, assess… For a full description of these (87 EO services) see either the reduced or extended descriptions linked to above.
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Previous Taxonomy (Previous EARSC Taxonomy (v2015)
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