Abstract
Due to the success of the Copernicus program and the general awareness towards satellite Earth Observation (EO) data, a growing number of cloud-based EO services are now available to users for processing and analyzing the available EO data. From a user perspective this is currently creating confusion due to the large number of available services and the lack of comparability between the offers. In addition, offers based on proprietary APIs without open source components have an inherent risk of vendor lock-in.
The openEO standard has been developed to address this, and enabled creating openEO platform (see https://openeo.cloud), a federation of openEO backends, where the combined offering supersedes the capabilities of the individual parts.