Big Data Management in Earth Observation: The German satellite data archive at the German Aerospace Center

The German Satellite Data Archive (D-SDA) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has been managing largevolume Earth-observation (EO) data in the context of EOmission payload ground segments (PGSs) for more than two decades. Hardware, data management, processing, user access, long-term preservation, and data exploitation expertise are under one roof and interact closely. Upcoming EO-mission PGSs ben...