GSC Sentinel-2 PDGS OCD - Emits - ESA

GSC Sentinel-2 PDGS OCD
Issue 1 Revision 2 (draft) - 25.07.2010
GMES-GSEG-EOPG-TN-09-0008
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4.10.2.2.3 Service Dependencies and Constraints
Service dependencies are described here such as eligibility constraints and the management
of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) inherent to the collaborations.
4.10.2.2.3.1 Eligibility
Eligibility to the service will be managed by the POM through the detailed definition of
collaboration agreements applicable to this type of collaboration.
The following general constraints will drive eligibility to the hosted-processing service:
○ The Sentinel-2 product set available as basis for higher-level processing through the
hosted-processing service includes solely the S2MSI1C product-type;
○ Additional auxiliary data required by the hosted-processor will have to be agreed upon
as part of the collaboration set-up and be at minimum supported by an operational
third-party electronic data provision service;
○ The product classes supported as candidate value-added products to be generated
through the hosted-processing service are Sentinel-2 only Level-2 and Level-3 classes
of products. Level-3 products include mono-mission or multi-mission compound
products aggregating the data of a single or several Sentinel-2 spacecrafts;
○ The user-processors will have to be pre-existing, tested and portable to the supported
PDGS computing platforms;
○ For eligibility to the systematic hosted-processing service, the value-added product
model will have to comply with a well-defined model inherited from the core product
model defined in [RD-07] allowing a swift integration via the generic product handling
mechanisms implemented by the PDGS.
4.10.2.2.3.2 Intellectual Property Rights Management and Licensing
The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) over software and algorithms held by the collaboration
peer entity will not be altered in any way by the collaborative opportunity.
As far as the use of third-party software and algorithms is concerned, the peer entity will be
fully responsible for requesting the necessary authorizations and/or licenses when
appropriate.
To sustain the operations of the systematic hosted-processing service as described under
service evolutions, the peer collaboration entity will have to grant to the POM an adequate
usage license allowing for a long-term exploitation of the hosted-processor within the PDGS.
The licensing of the resulting collaborative products will in principle be managed by the
collaborative entity and will be documented in the collaboration agreements.
4.10.2.2.4 Triggering Mechanism and Interface
For the preliminary processor integration step, the service will be managed through a
dedicated Collaboration support PDGS function. Please refer to section 5.2.4.6 for an outline
description of this function.
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