Datacubes as Enabling Platform for Advanced Decision Support Systems in
Land Management
Abstract
Informed, wise land management is a challenge since long, but has gained
extra importance through the need for responding to the climate change
effects. The European Green Deal is one example of a concertation effort
in a world where data availability, sharing options, and just-in-time
exploitation are not entirely solved. The LandSupport service responds
to this challenge through a combination of a Spatial Decision Support
System on top of a datacube management and analytics engine. In this
paper we specifically focus on this datacube engine and how it can
contribute to a better decision making through an ordered
multi-dimensional data management paired with strictly
standards-compliant interfaces. Further, the approach described shows a
remedy against the current fragmentation of services: through a
location-transparent federation a single common pool of information is
established, including distributed fusion allowing an unlimited
mix-and-match of data regardless of their location.