Earthnet online: The ESA Earth Observation Multi-Mission User Information Services start the operational phase

A new information resource — called “earthnet online” — is available to the Earth observation community on the World Wide Web at https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=" https://llearthnet.esrin.esa.it ">http:llearthnet.esrin.esa.it . The earthnet online service is provided through release A of the “Multi-Mission User Services” (MUIS) project. The key requirements of the system is the development of an integrated and user-oriented view for access to Earth Observation data. In the past, providers mainly offered their archive inventories as on-line user services. The perception has grown that this should be replaced by a more generic paradigm of access to ‘products’, more familiar to a less specialised user from the daily commercial world. As a final goal this view shall be offered to the user as a distributed and interoperable on-line service network of international providers.