Survey summary

An online survey of the network and interested stakeholders was carried out at the start of the project to establish a set of requirements for the AIREO resources. These requirements are summarised in the Specifications document:

• Adheres to FAIR principles
• Specifies that each dataset should be both legally findable and technically shareable or shared
• Specifies that Licensing rights to the entire dataset should be clear at catalogue level
• Adheres to community accepted metadata standards
• Includes the ability to incorporate raster and vector data
• Has the flexibility to accommodate at least the more frequently used EO and ML file formats
• Accommodates the ability to split an AIREO dataset and download only a subset
• Specifies that the full processing chain for the dataset should be documented, including data source and all processing steps necessary to reconstruct the dataset.
• Specifies the minimum level of quality assurance to provide, and a level of quality information to aspire to