Rapid environmental changes due to climate change call for innovative technological approaches, and likewise is this required for security missions. Essentially, organizations like NATO need advanced capabilities allowing geo¬graph¬ic¬ally distributed joint mission forces with all their information sources and consumers to (i) operate off the same map and (ii) get the right data at the right moment. Data¬cubes, aka spatio-temporally homogenized raster data, are an accepted cornerstone for providing Big Geo Data easier for users and applications, ready for analysis, visual¬iz¬ation, fusion, etc.
In the Cube4EnvSec project, funded by NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS), Big Earth Datacube Analytics gets demonstrated for transnational security and environment protection. A series of relevant use cases is being established proving the capabilities of realtime datacube management, analytics, and federation of fixed and moving data sources and sinks.