Reference documentation¶

This page lists the specifications and the external documentation applicable to RS-Python.

Copernicus¶

Document	Usage
Copernicus Sentinel missions and SentiWiki	Description of the missions, products and ground segment.
Copernicus operations - ground segment	Description of the acquisition (CADIP), auxiliary data (AUXIP) and production (PRIP) services, whose OData interfaces are used by the external data sources.
Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem and its STAC API	Source of products and auxiliary data.
Destination Earth and EarthDataHub	Source of the Copernicus Digital Elevation Model.

Document	Usage
EOPF project	The re-engineering of the Sentinel processors.
EOPF CPM documentation and source code	The Core Python Modules used by the processors.
Task tables	Interface of the processors with the orchestration, see Task tables and payload file.
Triggering usage and payload file	How the processors are triggered by rs-dpr-service.
Product types naming rules	Names of the EOPF product types, e.g. `S03OLCEFR`.
EOPF sample notebooks	Examples to read and use the Zarr products.

Standard	Usage
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) and its specification	Data model of all the products, see Catalog data model and lifecycle.
STAC API, with the Filter, Sort, Transaction, Collection Transaction and Bulk Transaction extensions	Interface of the catalog and of the external data sources.
STAC extensions	Metadata of the items, see Catalog data model and lifecycle. The RS-Python specific ones are the CADIP, ownership and download extensions.
OGC Common Query Language (CQL2)	Filters of the STAC API searches.
OGC API - Processes	Interface of the staging and processing services.
OData Version 4.01	Interface of the Copernicus stations.
OpenAPI	Description of the web services, displayed in the Swagger page.
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect	Authentication of the users, with Keycloak.
OpenTelemetry	Logs, metrics and traces.
Zarr	Format of the EOPF products.

Component	Documentation
stac-fastapi, stac-fastapi-pgstac, pgstac	Implementation of the catalog.
pygeoapi	Implementation of the OGC API - Processes services.
FastAPI	Web framework of the services.
pystac, pystac-client	STAC Python libraries used by the rs-client-libraries.
EODAG	Access to the external data sources.
Prefect	Workflow orchestration.
Dask, Dask Gateway	Parallel computing.
JupyterHub	Virtual environment.
STAC Browser	Web user interface of the STAC APIs.
Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible, Terraform	Deployment.
Envoy Gateway, Gateway API, cert-manager	Exposition of the services.
Keycloak	Identity and access management.
CloudNativePG, Velero	Databases and backups.
Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Alloy	Monitoring.

The complete list of the third-party components and of their licenses is given in the Third-party components annexes.