Sar Analysis Ready Data and Tools for the Open Data Cube

The amounts of satellite data available to the public have increased dramatically the last few years, in particular thanks to the public open release of certain key Earth observation missions, stimulating the development of new applications that use large volumes of data. With an armada of new high-volume satellite missions around the corner - both public and commercial - data producers and data users alike now risk becoming overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of data to handle, and new solutions to data structures, access and processing tools are required. Analysis-Ready Data, Data Cubes and cloud-based processing solutions are responses to new situation. Some examples of the former two are outlined briefly in this paper, highlighting some specific efforts by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the Open Data Cube (ODC) initiative to address these. Some specific efforts relating to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) are outlined.