Advances in remote sensing technologies have allowed us to send an ever-increasing
number of satellites in orbit around Earth. As a result, satellite image archives have been
constantly increasing in size in the last few years (now reaching petabyte sizes), and have
become a valuable source of information for many science and application domains
(environment, oceanography, geology, archaeology, security, etc.). TELEIOS is a recent
European project that addresses the need for scalable access to petabytes of Earth …

Advances in remote sensing technologies have enabled public and commercial
organizations to send an ever-increasing number of satellites in orbit around Earth. As a
result, Earth Observation (EO) data has been constantly increasing in volume in the last few
years, and is currently reaching petabytes in many satellite archives. For example, the multi-
mission data archive of the TELEIOS partner German Aerospace Center (DLR) is expected
to reach 2PB next year, while ESA estimates that it will be archiving 20PB of data before the …