Abstract
During the workshop we will introduce the openEO API and some examples of its implementation in Europe based on the developments carried out in the ESA SAR2CUBE and openEO platform projects.
OpenEO is a very modern high-level API aiming at defining EO processing workflows independent from the infrastructure in which they are processed. It is based on the concept of virtual data cubes and the chain ability of operations that can be called on those data cubes.
Many data cubes have been developed recently, but very few have tackled the difficulties of working with complex data in the Slant-Range geometry. In the SAR2CUBE project a framework for defining SAR data cubes in their natural format and make them compatible with other geo-projected raster data has been developed.
Both projects are completely based on open-source technology and are continued to be developed as open source. SAR2CUBE makes use of the openEO API to expose the newly defined processes specifically for working with SAR data.