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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
