User Management Interfaces for Earth Observation Services, Version 1.0.

Abstract

This OGC Best Practice is complementary to a set of OGC Services and related standards and specifications that describe services for managing Earth Observation (EO) data products. These services include collection level, and product level catalogues, online-ordering for archived and to be acquired (future) products, on-line access to these EO products, etc. The application of the current Best Practice is not limited to the Earth Observation domain however, as this document can be considered as a model which could be extended to other OGC application domain and to other bindings beyond the SOAP and HTTP ones described in the following. The intent of this Best Practice is to describe an identity management interface that can be implemented and supported by many data providers (satellite operators, data distributors …), most of whom have existing (and relatively complex) facilities for the management of their data and users. The proposed strategy is to specify a platform and provider independent interface using existing standards.