This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Over the past decades rapid
developments in digital and sensing technologies such as the Cloud Web and Internet of Things
have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is
revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access process
and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.This book reviews these megatrends and their
implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides
insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data which are
characterized by openness access to large volume of complex data wide availability of new
community tools new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence
unprecedented level of computing power and new types of collaboration among researchers
innovators entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition this book aims to provide
readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation highlighting through a series
of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution but also the
new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex
and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites.
