Overview of DestinE Platform for DEDL users

As stated in Destination Earth Data Lake Introduction, DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP)

  • federates access to users’ platforms, European cloud and HPC infrastructures,

  • allows access to existing Digital Twins,

  • provides data analytics, visualization, and Earth-system monitoring and also

  • offers simulation and prediction capabilities to its users.

This is its main screen:

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There are six options in main DESP menu; for DEDL users, the most important ones will be Services and Support:

Services

Showcases services that DESP is providing:

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Here are the images for services which are available from DEDL:

DEDL services available at DESP
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Example: activate Hook service

To illustrate the usage, click on one of these services, say, Hook:

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Scroll down to see the entire description of the service. There are two usable buttons:

Documentation

Leads to the introductory page about Hook Service, on DEDL site – Hook Service

Go to service

Provides link which lists Edge services (services available from DEDL):

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Scroll down to see all the services on that page.

Note

To use Edge services on DESP, you must first be approved by a governance board. To get approval, see article Request access to Edge Services.

Alternatively, click on the underlined link in the image below:

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Onboarding

Option Onboarding is for Service Providers to make their services available to the end-user community. On DEDL, users can request to add user generated data into DEDL and provide information for cataloguing. Article Promote user data to become DestinE data describes steps of the user generated data on-boarding process.

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Updates

This page shows announcements for events, releases, updates and scheduled maintenances. It is bound to change frequently.

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About

Basic links to Destination Earth Components and DestinE Platform Consortium.

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Support

DESP support page will be the option to visit when you want to register to DESP Platform. See How to create a DestinE Platform account.

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What To Do Next

The procedure for registering is described in How to create a DestinE Platform account.

There are several options to manage your DestinE Platform account: Managing an existing account on DestinE Platform.