Abstract
The Sentinel Alpine Observatory is a new initiative by EURAC to foster Sentinel based remote sensing applications for mountains and, specifically, for the European Alps. It comprises a long-term archive for Sentinel data over the Alps, processing approaches adapted for mountains and the development of tailored applications for users from mountain regions on snow, vegetation, soil moisture and other relevant variables. Big Data both from space and from in-situ measurements are analyzed organizing them into a specific facility composed by a Software Defined Storage, a Processing Cluster and a Data Base Cluster, implementing the DataCube multi-dimensional array.