- Big Data platform for satellite pictures of the Earth
- Two terabytes of new data are produced each day
- Satellite and environmental data made available for free for the first time in Europe
In future, T-Systems will process mass data from orbit. For their Copernicus program, the European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary with the provision and operation of a secure Big Data platform for satellite data. The platform saves and processes high-resolution images of the Earth such as photos or radar images from a new generation of satellites. These picture will be made available to the public by the Copernicus project, marking the first time satellite and environmental data have been provided free of charge to registered users in Europe. The free data are to enable new digital services in the fields of disaster prevention and climate change, for example. In the event of flooding, such data can provide a better overview of the affected areas.
The satellite images from Copernicus will see the data volume multiply by a factor of ten compared with the images of Earth available today. The images, taken continually and worldwide for the first time, mean a daily data influx of two terabytes for T-Systems to process on the Big Data platform. The necessary storage and computing capacity is spread across several data centers. T-Systems also operates a new gigabit network for ESA, which forwards the satellite data from the receiver station directly for processing and archiving. Special ESA software automatically processes the images and corrects effects such as the curvature of the Earth. In this way, the system provides users with undistorted multi-dimensional images.
Networks and data centers from T-Systems take care of data security. "Our data centers offer high levels of availability and avoid data losses caused by redundant storage," explains Deutsche Telekom Board Member and T-Systems CEO Reinhard Clemens. "Our years of experience in information and communication technology have enabled us to develop a platform that fully meets the strict requirements of the European Commission.
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About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with 142 million mobile customers, more than 31 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2013). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has approximately 229,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of 60.1 billion euros in the 2013 financial year - over half of it outside Germany.
About T-Systems Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customers unit provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 50,000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise with ICT innovations to add significant value to customers’ core business all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around 9.5 billion euros in the 2013 financial year.
* The contractually agreed work is supported by funding from the European Commission. The views provided here are not official statements by the European Union or the European Space Agency.