The EOPEN project has been presented under the section "ricerca&innovazione" of the Italian magazine "Platinum", issue 63 of November 2018, supplement of the newspaper "Sole24 Ore".
The article reads "The European Copernicus Program has thoroughly changed the perspective in the usage of Earth Observation Satellite data, which was limited to experts up to several years ago; according to Guido Vingione - Serco Italia Copernicus Service Director - its effectiveness is twofold, either by easing EO satellite data access or complementing it with non-EO data; since two years Serco has been coordinating the H2020 EOPEN Project aimed to non-experts of EO data thus professionals, allowing them to implement their activities and services implying big data handling through cloud computing; EOPEN novelty is the merging and integration of in-situ data (ancillary data) needed for EO data interpretation and non-EO data (e.g. social media) data favouring their wider exploitation. Roberto Mulatti, Serco Italia Managing Director, points out the IT and EO data exploitation service provided to ESA for many years, relying on personnel, including specializations in scientific topics, and, also, participating to the recent discovery of water on Mars."
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