Terradue provides the Ellip platform to enable earth science practitioners to collaboratively develop applications using satellite data. Ellip includes tools like notebooks, workflows, and marketplaces to share reproducible experiments, package applications, and deploy processing systems. The goal is to promote open sharing of resources according to FAIR principles and give subscribers control over their assets and production environments.

1. Ellip: a collaborative workplace
for Earth Science
June 2020
Hervé Caumont
Platform Operations, Terradue

2. Engage, interact & synergize

3. About us
▪ Terradue is an ESA spin-off (2006)
▪ From day one providing support to
application builders in earth sciences, to
use satellite EO data as information source
▪ Early days Grid Computing. Nowadays, Cloud
PaaS, complemented with APIs for Cloud
bursting, aimed at the transfer in production
of released applications
▪ https://www.terradue.comExperienced international team,
16 members.

4. About us
▪ Terradue is an ESA spin-off (2006)
▪ From day one providing support to
application builders in earth sciences, to
use satellite EO data as information source
▪ Early days Grid Computing. Nowadays, Cloud
PaaS, complemented with APIs for Cloud
bursting, aimed at the transfer in production
of released applications
▪ Business model: Platform-centered, a
collaborative workplace for value adders
to interact & co-createEllip Solutions v1.0 now released
to Terradue subscribers

5. Ellip Solutions on Terradue Cloud Platform
Value Adders who collaborate on ellip:
Producers
Consumers
consumers & producers, interacting

6. Ellip Solutions on Terradue Cloud Platform
Explorer
Subscribers
Scaler
Subscribers
Value Adders who collaborate on ellip
Producers
Consumers
Explorer Subscribers
explore new opportunities to make data
processing more efficient and reusable
within non-specialist communities
Scaler Subscribers
scale up processing applications onto
production environments, and deliver
turnkey information layers to their
stakeholders

7. Ellip Solutions & Ellip-powered systems
Explorer
Subscribers
Scaler
Subscribers

8. Ellip Solutions & Ellip-powered systems
Scaler
Subscribers
Member
Registrants
-powered systems

9. Ellip Solutions & Ellip-powered systems
Explorer
Subscribers
Scaler
Subscribers
Member
Registrants
-powered systems

10. Ellip Solutions & Ellip-powered systems
Explorer
Subscribers
Scaler
Subscribers
Member
Registrants
Operations Support team
( extract )

11. How to work with Ellip ?

12. Sign-up!
Federated IdPs & Terradue SSO
Possibility to keep
your preferred
Identity Provider
OpenID Connect
technology
Really easy to
on-board
from existing stakeholder
communities
Member
Registrants

13. Upgrade!
Contact us to subscribe to a Plan

14. • Flexible Business model
for the sustainability of
platform operations:
• Public funding
• Commercial revenues
• Costs sharing
• Ad-hoc Partner
Programs for:
• Processor providers
• IaaS* providers
• Data providers
Subscription Plans
EXPLORER
Low cost
Application integration
environment
For
Sensor data
science
experts
SCALER
Low cost
Hosted data processing
environment
For
Information
management
experts
* IaaS: cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service
ULTIMATE PARTNER
For Resource Providers
PREMIUM
PARTNER
All in one
System life-cycle
management
environment
For
System integration
& operation
teams

15. Ellip Dashboard

16. Visualise & validateEmbed code + data Document Share
Notebook
Commit
Configure
access rights
Ellip Exchange
Reproducible Experiments
Trials
JupyterLab
Environment
Ellip Notebooks
Code
Upload
Data
stage-in
Versioning

17. BuildIntegrate & Test Package Dockerize
Code
Commit
Scan
Repository
Ellip Exchange
Continuous Integration & Delivery
Code
Upload
Application
Release
Integration
Environment
Ellip Workflows

18. List Select Deploy
Production
Environments
Resources selectors and deployers
Ellip Exchange
Set
Ellip Launchpads
Authorized
Appliances
Production
settings
Authorized
Providers

19. Load / Edit Save Deliver
App
Editors
Stakeholders
engagement
Information Assembly, Delivery & Exploitation
Catalog
Ellip Exchange
Web
Online
resources
Private,
Community,
or Template
Assemble
Community
configurations
Ellip Infohubs

20. Ellip Solutions
on Terradue Cloud Platform

21. Data analysis systems
built with our solutions & APIs

22. ● Ellip Notebooks
○ “Create interactive laboratory notebooks”
● Ellip Workflows
○ “Design scalable processing chains”
● Ellip Launchpads
○ “Select a data processor and deploy it”
● Ellip Infohubs
○ “Connect data sources to a Client App”
Ellip Solutions
Vestibulum
congue
Vestibulum
congue
Vestibulum
congue
Vestibulum
congue
Ellip
Infohubs
Ellip
N
otebooks
Ellip
Launchpads
Ellip
W
orkflow
s

23. Producers
Consumers
Ellip Solutions
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Vestibulum
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Ellip
Infohubs
Ellip
N
otebooks
Ellip
Launchpads
Ellip
W
orkflow
s
Ellip
Exchange
● Ellip Exchange
○ “Access the marketplace
of Ellip-powered resources”

24. Ellip collaborative work in a nutshell
As an Explorer subscriber,
I want to share my assets with selected Scaler users
Integrate for scalability
Share my
Application Packages
with interested
parties
Advertise to
Ellip consumers
“Scalers”
Consumers
Ellip Exchange
Publish Application Packages
on the marketplace

25. Ellip collaborative work in a nutshell
As a Scaler subscriber,
I want to reuse assets shared to me by Explorer users
Search
& import
Run at scale
Bring in
stakeholders
Reuse from
Ellip producers
“Explorers”
Producers
Ellip Exchange
Import Application Packages in
your Producer Deck

26. Ellip end-to-end in a nutshell
As a Premium Partner subscriber,
I want to build and maintain a processing service
Interactively
prototype
Integrate for
scalability
Run at scale
Bring in
stakeholders

27. Ellip Exchange
as the core
enabler of Ellip as
a ‘collaborative
workplace’
Vestibulum
congue
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congue
Ellip
Exchange
Ellip
Infohubs
Ellip
N
otebooks
Ellip
Launchpads
Ellip
W
orkflow
s
. Application code
. Packaged application
. Tutorial
. Running WPS
at a selected
Cloud Provider
. New
information
layers
. Reproducible experiment as code
. Interactive data visualisations
. OWS Context template
. ad-hoc Community Portal
Resources
Resources
Resources
Resources

28. So, what does a platform mean nowadays?
The Ellip Solutions are built for earth sciences
practitioners:
▪ to share about their findings, streamline
their creation of new resources and make
these accessible, interoperable,
▪ and document their developments on the PaaS
as reproducible experiments
In line with the FAIR guiding principles to make
data findable, accessible, interoperable and
reusable

29. All of it: an Open Cloud strategy
▪ The Ellip subscribers remain the owners of
their created assets, and decide how to
share these on the platform, for other users
to find and reuse these assets.
▪ They are also empowered to decide on the
target production environment of their
packaged applications (no lock in with
Cloud provider)
Producers
Consumers

30. Looking forward
hearing from you!
https://www.terradue.com
Hervé Caumont, Platform Operations
herve.caumont@terradue.com