EarthServer:
The Federated Datacube Space
Understand. Space. Time.
Analysis-Ready? Datacubes!
Datacubes are an accepted cornerstone for analysis-ready data - homogenization of zillions of scenes into a few space-time cubes with unified spatial and temporal access has been shown to lead to both simpler and more scalable services. However, the range of service quality is immense, from "write your own python code" to high-level, coding-free analytics. The Datacube Manifesto establishes basics and best practices on flexible, function-rich, open, and interoperable datacube services.
Huh? Datacubes? Standards??
Don't worry - coverage standards are not drama queens! Learn more about the OGC datacube standards which enable access, analytics, and fusion on this single, multi-Petabyte information space spanning the planet. See the EarthServer webinars for an easy-to-digest introduction to the datacube standards, from zero to hero. More practical tips can be found in the rasdaman cheatsheets and tutorials.
Try & Explore!
From 1-D through 4-D, from access over visualization to fusion - you name it! The EarthServer Datacube Sandbox, done by Jacobs University, illustrates the power of standards-based datacubes in a wide spectrum of client contexts: from simple map navigation with Leaflet over virtual globes to Web GIS and high-end analytics.
About EarthServer
Planetary-Scale Earth Datacube Federation
The EarthServer federation provides a uniform data space of spatio-temporal Earth data, integrating a massive number of large-scale data providers in a completely location transparent manner. The European Copernicus Sentinel archives plus many more data assets are readily available for mix & match.
All data provided by federation members are accessible on any node, with no difference for the user. The example below shows a query done between ECMWF, located in the UK, and the Australian National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
Governance
EarthServer is an open community of large-scale Earth data providers, including research centers, supercomputing centers, companies, agencies. All EarthServer members contribute jointly to the single common information space for multi-dimensional spatio-temporal Earth data which EarthServer offers as a single point of Earth data and services.
Currently, the EarthServer Charter is being established for discussion and, upon agreement, adoption by the EarthServer community. Goal is to retain full autonomy of every participant while providing a fair, open, usable contribution valuable to the EarthServer users.
How it all emerged: watch the video !
Visitors since 2025-06-03
Datacubes At Your Fingertips
The combined federation data asset is available in full through any of the members below, such as this one, operated by Jacobs University:
Enter the FederationEarthServer Federation Members
in alphabetical order
by geographic location
Have Data to Share?
Join the Federation!
You have spatio-temporal Earth data to offer? Join us - the EarthServer federation is open and free! Once your datacube service is configured you just approach the federation board which will undertake all steps in a completely transparent process. Contact us anytime to find out more.
Terms of Reference
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German Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The controller responsible for the described data collection and processing is Jacobs University. Our EarthServer data protection officer, Peter Baumann, will be happy to provide you with information or suggestions on the topic of data protection.
When you visit our website, the Web server temporarily stores usage information on our server machine (running in Germany) for statistical purposes in the form of a log in order to improve the quality of our website and to fulfill funding agency statistics reporting obligations.
We do not transfer your personal data to third parties without your express consent. We use revolvermaps for determining the city of visitors (nothing beyond this anonymized information is available); see their privacy statement which, at the time we evaluated it, obviously was in accordance with GDPR.
When it comes to processing your personal data, the GDPR grants you certain rights as a website user:
- Right of Access (Art. 15 of the GDPR): You have the right to request confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed; where this is the case, you have a right of access to this personal data and to the information specified in Article 15 of the GDPR.
- Right to Rectification and Right to Erasure (Art. 16 and 17 of the GDPR): You have the right to immediately request the rectification of incorrect personal data concerning you and, if necessary, the completion of incomplete personal data. You also have the right to request that personal data concerning you be erased immediately if one of the reasons listed in Art. 17 of the GDPR applies in detail, e.g. if the data is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected.
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