EOSC Node | Data Terra - EOSC Association

The Data Terra EOSC Node is the French national research e-Infrastructure for the Earth System, biodiversity and environmental scientific domains supported by several national research-performing organisations and universities.

Data Terra federates five Earth domain-oriented data and services hubs: i) atmosphere (AERIS); ii) oceans (ODATIS); iii) land surfaces (THEIA); iv) solid earth (FORMATERRE); and v) biodiversity (PNDB). In addition, Data Terra develops cross-cutting and multidisciplinary services with a specific focus on satellite observations. Data Terra arranges a comprehensive and complementary national landscape of thematic infrastructures and thus contributes to other European hubs and initiatives as data and service provider. As an EOSC Node, Data Terra provides single sign-on to high-quality, trusted, FAIR and AI-ready multidomain data for the Earth system. It also provides cross-domain data analysis workflow and VREs enabling multidisciplinary collaboration leveraging federated resources.

EOSC Node | Data Terra homepage

Key objective: To contribute to the EOSC Federation as a thematic e-Infrastructure Node, providing access to high-quality, FAIR and trusted, multi-domain data on Earth system, climate, environment, and biodiversity. To enable technical and semantic interoperability, and provide VREs and scientific workflow analytical tools.

Science areas: Earth system, environment, biodiversity and climate-related sciences.

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

FAIR data

The Data Terra EOSC Node makes high-quality, trusted and FAIR AI-ready multi-domain data and multi-source data (space, airborne, in-situ, models, omics). Metadata harmonisation, technical and semantic interoperability, federated resources catalogues.

Scientific use cases

Biological sequestration of carbon in the ocean

The scientific use case addresses the ocean’s critical role in mitigating climate change through biological carbon sequestration, a process by which marine microorganisms capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and store it in the deep ocean for centuries.

Despite its global importance for climate modelling, this mechanism remains poorly represented in current models, which still rely on simplified representations of marine ecosystems. The use case seeks to fill this knowledge gap by integrating genomic, environmental, and modelling data within a unified, open, and interoperable framework provided by the EOSC Federation.

EOSC Federation scientific use case – Biological sequestration of carbon in the ocean

Imaging data workflows on Galaxy

This science case on imaging data workflows on Galaxy demonstrates how a federated, open-access computational platform can transform the way imaging data are processed, shared, and reused across diverse scientific domains.

The use case leverages the Galaxy platform to integrate data from a wide range of imaging-based research fields—such as life sciences (microscopy), astrophysics (telescope data), climate science (satellite data), and marine science (underwater imagery)—into a unified analysis environment. The goal is to demonstrate that Galaxy can be integrated into the EOSC Federation’s common infrastructure to serve many disciplines simultaneously, allowing researchers to share workflows, reuse methods, and access powerful computational tools without needing specialised technical expertise.

EOSC Federation scientific use case – Galaxy integration

Other use cases

Volcano Space Observatory: real-time and retrospective volcanic event monitoring with satellite data and multi-domain Earth system data (atmosphere and solid earth)

STATUS & TIMELINE

CAPABILITIES & ACCESS

Interactions with other EOSC Nodes

How to access the Node

Rules of Participation

The Data Terra policy:

Is aligned with EOSC Federation rules;
Supports GDPR, Open Science policies, quality standards, and provenance/trust frameworks.

Access points

Via Data Terra portal (EOSC Node services to be integrated during build-up phase). Access via federated AAI with EduGain/ORCID/EOSC AAI/MyAccessId includes access to VREs (Jupyter, Galaxy) and resources catalogues.

Node capabilities

Federated services

AAI
Registries
Metadata
Workflows

Data repositories

National and European thematic hubs (Earth, climate, biodiversity)

Compute and storage

GENCI/EuroHPC
France Grilles/EGI
National data centres

VRE

Galaxy
Jupyter notebooks

File sync-and-share

Integrated with EUDAT B2DROP and OwnCloud (planned)

Other

Knowledge graph
Citizen science gateway
Monitoring and accounting tools

COORDINATION

The Data Terra EOSC Node is the French national research e-Infrastructure for the Earth System, biodiversity and environmental scientific domains supported by several national research-performing organisations and universities.

FAIR data

The Data Terra EOSC Node makes high-quality, trusted and FAIR AI-ready multi-domain data and multi-source data (space, airborne, in-situ, models, omics). Metadata harmonisation, technical and semantic interoperability, federated resources catalogues.