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3. THE CEO INITIATIVES TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE USER
REQUIREMENTS FOR EARTH OBSERVATION
to achieve a consistent method of grouping and of expression. A principal
task was to be faithful to what users need, which in many cases differed in
certain ways from how the requirement statements had been written. This
work has resulted in various documents, which can be retrieved from the
following URL: http://www.ceo.org/.
We believe that these documents can also be of benefit to other activities
concerning EO in Europe. Care should be taken, however, in their use. These
user requirements were collected for the CEO; they will not be directly
applicable to all other areas of Earth Observation.
2.2 Proof of concept studies
The requirement capture was also supported in a different way, by
conducting “Proof of Concept Studies”. These aimed at prototyping potential
CEO applications and communication techniques. The Application Proof of
Concept Studies aimed at promoting and fostering the use and dissemination
of data, products and services developed by application-oriented projects.
The Communication Technologies Proof of Concept Studies tested critical
data and information management capabilities, especially with regard to
information exchange with the user and thus the applications.
The common link of both areas is the utilization of information exchange
via established means (e.g., World Wide Web) and by the utilization of
already existing technologies and approaches. This is directly reflected in the
contributions that the Proof of Concept Studies have provided to the
development of the European Wide Service Exchange testbed which is in
turn a proof-of-concept study used to test the CEO concept of Enabling
Services.
The ‘Proof-of-Concept’ Studies were mainly undertaken via contracts to
European organizations. Institutes of the JRC also conducted a limited
number of activities. Including sub-contractors, 64 European organizations
participated in these studies.
Some preliminary lessons learned from the projects were:
High level information (in simple formats, for non-expert users) is
needed to promote EO to a wider community. Several ideas for
addressing customers and demonstrating the applicability of EO to their
needs were implemented by the projects. In a few cases, this resulted in
successfully acquiring new customers, sometimes with sufficient interest
to be potential new funding sources for the projects concerned.
Non-space data have been demonstrated to be of vital importance to
complement space data when these are either spatially/temporally
3. THE CEO INITIATIVES TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE USER
REQUIREMENTS FOR EARTH OBSERVATION
to achieve a consistent method of grouping and of expression. A principal
task was to be faithful to what users need, which in many cases differed in
certain ways from how the requirement statements had been written. This
work has resulted in various documents, which can be retrieved from the
following URL: http://www.ceo.org/.
We believe that these documents can also be of benefit to other activities
concerning EO in Europe. Care should be taken, however, in their use. These
user requirements were collected for the CEO; they will not be directly
applicable to all other areas of Earth Observation.
2.2 Proof of concept studies
The requirement capture was also supported in a different way, by
conducting “Proof of Concept Studies”. These aimed at prototyping potential
CEO applications and communication techniques. The Application Proof of
Concept Studies aimed at promoting and fostering the use and dissemination
of data, products and services developed by application-oriented projects.
The Communication Technologies Proof of Concept Studies tested critical
data and information management capabilities, especially with regard to
information exchange with the user and thus the applications.
The common link of both areas is the utilization of information exchange
via established means (e.g., World Wide Web) and by the utilization of
already existing technologies and approaches. This is directly reflected in the
contributions that the Proof of Concept Studies have provided to the
development of the European Wide Service Exchange testbed which is in
turn a proof-of-concept study used to test the CEO concept of Enabling
Services.
The ‘Proof-of-Concept’ Studies were mainly undertaken via contracts to
European organizations. Institutes of the JRC also conducted a limited
number of activities. Including sub-contractors, 64 European organizations
participated in these studies.
Some preliminary lessons learned from the projects were:
High level information (in simple formats, for non-expert users) is
needed to promote EO to a wider community. Several ideas for
addressing customers and demonstrating the applicability of EO to their
needs were implemented by the projects. In a few cases, this resulted in
successfully acquiring new customers, sometimes with sufficient interest
to be potential new funding sources for the projects concerned.
Non-space data have been demonstrated to be of vital importance to
complement space data when these are either spatially/temporally