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EOxServer is a server for Earth Observation (EO) data

EOxServer's mission: To provide an Open Source software framework to ease the online provision of big Earth Observation data archives via Open Standard services for efficient exploitation by users.

• Open Source: MIT-style license
• software framework: Entirely based on Open Source (Python, MapServer, Django, GDAL, etc.)
• ease online provision: Admin GUI and command line data registration
• big Earth Observation data archives: Operators register existing raster data archives
• Open Standard services: Open in the sense of freely available; Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC); OpenSearch, WMS, WCS, EO-WMS, EO-WCS
• efficient exploitation by users: User defined sub-setting; view and download

Work on EOxServer has been partly funded by the European Space Agency (ESA)

EOxServer Technical Details

EOxServer implements the OGC Implementation Specifications EO-WCS and EO-WMS on top of MapServer's WCS and WMS implementations.

EOxServer is released under the EOxServer Open License a MIT-style license and written in Python and entirely based on Open Source software including MapServer, Django, GDAL, SpatiaLite, PostGIS, and PROJ.4. Versions 0.1.x are released under the GNU General Public License.