This June, at the Living Planet Symposium 2025 (LPS25) in Vienna, ESA’s EarthCODE initiative will showcase how we are turning ESA’s strategic commitment to Open Science into action.
EarthCODE (Earth Science Collaborative Open Development Environment) is designed to enable researchers to publish, discover, and reuse Earth Observation (EO) datasets, code, and analytical workflows in accordance with FAIR principles—making scientific outputs Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. EarthCODE integrates with several EO Cloud Platforms, making it easy for scientists working on them to publish their results on the Open Science Catalog, where you can find and access data, and reproducible workflows from ESA-funded projects and initiatives.
Open Science in the Making
Throughout the symposium week (23–27 June), EarthCODE will be present at Open Science in the Making – a designated space in the LPS Foyer 3 (area 1), offering ESA researchers and EO projects the opportunity to publish their data and workflows directly in the Open Science Catalogue. Dedicated one-to-one sessions with EarthCODE team experts will guide project members /researchers through the process of metadata preparation, validation, and final publication.
By publishing their work at one of these sessions, participants will:
- Gain immediate visibility through featuring their work on the EarthCODE portal and at the ESA booth at LPS.
- Receive recognition in ESA’s Open Science newsletter (sign up here) , EarthCODE social media channels, and EarthCODE Community Forum.
- Benefit from direct, hands-on assistance from EarthCODE’s technical specialists to ensure datasets and workflows adhere to best practices for reproducibility and FAIR compliance.
Join ESA’s broader effort in championing transparent, collaborative, and impactful Earth Science research!
Slots are limited, and early booking is recommended: https://forms.office.com/e/Rzh5TTU1uh
To make the most of the session, scientists are invited to be ready with:
- Dataset: Final or sample data accessible via public repositories or institutional databases.
- Metadata: A clear, concise description of your dataset, including relevant keywords, variables, scientific themes, geospatial and temporal extent.
- Workflow/Code: Scientific workflows or code, ideally hosted in a public GitHub repository with clear documentation and dependency specifications.
- Documentation: Relevant papers, user handbooks, or guides describing your research outcomes.
- Project information: Name and brief details of your ESA-funded project or activity.
- Knowledgeable team member: Someone familiar with the data and workflows, able to answer technical questions and clarify methodologies.
Do you have questions or need further details? Open a discussion thread on the EarthCODE community forum (preferred option) or reach out to the EarthCODE team at earth-code@esa.int.
EarthCODE @LPS highlights
Beyond the publishing sessions, EarthCODE also offers an exciting programme during LPS 2025.
| Sun 22 | FAIR and Open Science with EarthCODE Integrated Platforms - TUTORIAL 17:00–18:20 – Room 0.11/0.12 This hands-on tutorial introduces participants to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and Open Science principles through EarthCODE integrated platforms, using real-world Earth Observation datasets and workflows. We will begin by exploring the fundamentals of FAIR, explore the EarthCODE catalog, and apply a checklist-based FAIRness assessment to datasets hosted on EarthCODE. Participants will evaluate current implementations, identify gaps, and discuss possible improvements. Building on this foundation, we will demonstrate how integrated platforms such as DeepESDL, OpenEO, and Euro Data Cube (Polar TEP, Pangeo & CoCalc) can be used to create reproducible EO workflows. Participants will create and publish open science experiments and products using these tools, applying FAIR principles throughout the process. The tutorial concludes with publishing results to the EarthCODE catalog, showcasing how EarthCODE facilitates FAIR-aligned, cloud-based EO research. By the end of the session, attendees will have practical experience in assessing and improving FAIRness, developing open workflows, and using EarthCODE platforms to enable reproducible, FAIR and Open Science. Please register your interest for this tutorial by filling in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/yKPJpKV0KX before the session. Speakers: |
| Mon 23 | EarthCODE 101 Hands-On Workshop - HANDS-ON TRAINING 09:00–10:20 – Room 0.96/0.97 This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce participants to EarthCODE’s capabilities, guiding them from searching, finding, and accessing EO datasets and workflows to publishing reproducible experiments that can be shared with the wider scientific community. This workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to leverage EarthCODE for your own projects and contribute to the future of open science. During this 90 minute workshop, participants will, in a hands-on fashion, learn about: – Introduction to EarthCODE and the future of FAIR and Open Science in Earth Observation – Gain understanding in Finding, Accessing, Interoperability, and Reusability of data and workflows on EarthCODE – Creating reproducible experiments using EarthCODE’s platforms – with a hands-on example with Euro Data Cube and Pangeo – Publishing data and experiments to EarthCODE At the end of the workshop, we will take time for discussion and feedback on how to make EarthCODE better for the community. Pre-requirements for attendees: The participants need to bring their laptop and have an active github account but do not need to install anything as the resources will be accessed online using Pangeo notebooks provided by EarthCODE and EDC. Please register your interest by filling in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/jAB9YLjgY0 before the session. Speakers: Free Open Source Software for the Geospatial Domain – Pangeo Europe - SCIENTIFIC SESSION 14:00–15:30 – Hall N1/N2 Free and Open Source Software is has a key role in the geospatial and EO communities, fostered by organizations such as OSGeo, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Apache and space agencies such as ESA and NASA. This session showcases the status of OSS tools and applications in the EO domain, and their foreseen evolution, with a focus on innovation and support to open science challenges. Speakers: Implementing FAIR Open Science: Advancing ESA’s EO Science Strategy - AGORA 15:30–16:15 – Nexus Agora ESA’s new EO Science Strategy “Earth Science in Action for Tomorrow’s World” puts forth Open Science and Digital Innovation as key enablers for Earth Action, driving accelerated discovery to address the pressing challenges of our time. To realise this vision, national agencies, international organizations, and research institutions must work together to create frameworks that support open science, facilitate data sharing, and enable interoperability. This panel-style Agora will include 4–5 invited speakers from national space agencies, European Commission, the scientific community and the European EO Platforms industry, with expertise in open science and collaboration. The session will be moderated by ESA. Moderator: Speakers: |
| Tue 24 | Open Science in the Making - AGORA 10:45–11:30 – Frontiers Agora Open Science is made live, at LPS, at the “Open Science in the Making” booth! Here scientists and open source software developers will meet to discuss best practices in Open Science, and collaborate to build user-driven expansions to open source tools and algorithms, integrate and share their applications and data, discuss on the most popular Open Source projects helping scientific research and digital innovation advance further! This Agora will present the tools and projects the “Open Science in the Making” booth will focus on, its organization, and the opportunities for engaging with strategic initiatives like EarthCODE and APEx or EOEPCA by joining in it. Participating in the “Open Science in the Making” activities will be an excellent opportunity to collaborate, learn about the potentials of Open Science and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to support your own activities, and, why not, sharpen your coding skills! A variety of ways to contribute during the “Open Science in the Making” will be showcased in this Agora, such as test code, file and fix bugs, propose and add new features, improve documentation, or just ask more info to the developers about a FOSS software or Open Science project and tools, their inner workings and how they can fit your use case. At this Agora, you will also be able to discuss the “Open Science in the Making” booth agenda, which will include experts coming from different projects and activities, such as the EarthCODE initiative, the APEx platform, the EOEPCA Building Blocks, popular OSGeo softwares, open standards, etc… Come to this Agora or pass by the “Open Science in the Making” booth to know more! Introducing EarthCODE - DEMO 15:22–15:42 – EO Arena The objective of this brief demonstration is to introduce EarthCODE. The Open Science and Innovation Vision included in ESA’s EO Science Strategy (2024) addresses 8 key elements: 1) openness of research data, 2) open-source scientific code, 3) open access papers with data and code; 4) standards-based publication and discovery of scientific experiments, 5) scientific workflows reproducible on various infrastructures, 6) access to education on open science, 7) community practice of open science; and 8) EO business models built on open-source. EarthCODE (https://earthcode.esa.int) is a strategic ESA EO initiative to support the implementation of this vision. EarthCODE (Earth Science Collaborative Open Development Environment) will form part of the next generation of cloud-based geospatial services, aiming towards an integrated, cloud-based, user-centric development environment for European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth science activities. EarthCODE looks to maximise long-term visibility, reuse and reproducibility of the research outputs of such projects, by leveraging FAIR and open science principles and enabling, thus fostering a sustainable scientific process. EarthCODE proposes a flexible and scalable architecture developed with interoperable open-source blocks, with a long-term vision evolving by incrementally integrating industrially provided services from a portfolio of the Network of Resources.? During this 20 minute demo, we will cover how collaboration and Federation are at the heart of EarthCODE. As EarthCODE evolves we expect providing solutions allowing federation of data and processing. EarthCODE has ambition to deliver a model for a Collaborative Open Development Environment for Earth system science, where researchers can leverage the power of the wide range of EO platform services available to conduct their science, while also making use of FAIR Open Science tools to manage data, code and documentation, create end-to-end reproducible workflows on platforms, and have the opportunity to discover, use, reuse, modify and build upon the research of others in a fair and safe way. Speakers: |
| Wed 25 | Enabling Open Science with EarthCODE and Copernicus Dataspace Ecosystem openEO Federation - DEMO 11:37–11:57 – EO Arena Join us for a demonstration showcasing how the Copernicus Dataspace Ecosystem openEO federation integrates with ESA’s EarthCODE environment. EarthCODE is a dynamic Collaborative Open Development Environment designed to transform Earth System Science by embedding FAIR and Open Science principles into the scientific development process. It provides tools, expertise, and opportunities for science teams to seamlessly adopt open science practices in their workflows. By integrating the EarthCODE Open Science Catalogue, it simplifies the discovery of research outcomes from ESA Science Clusters and beyond. With direct access to commercial platform services and a rich ecosystem of community-driven tools, EarthCODE empowers scientists to collaborate, innovate, and drive the next wave of discovery in Earth Science. In this session, you will learn how to leverage the CDSE openEO federation to create reusable processing workflows that can access a large collection of satellite datasets and cloud computing resources. We will guide you through the entire process—from building a reproducible workflow using openEO’s Python libraries, to executing an experiment, and finally publishing the results to the EarthCODE Open Science Catalogue. This streamlined approach ensures that your research remains openly accessible, reusable, and reproducible by the broader scientific community. Whether you seek to enhance your research transparency, implement workflows using openEO, or contribute to an evolving open science ecosystem, this demonstration will show how EarthCODE and the Copernicus Dataspace Ecosystem openEO federation can support your scientific activities. Speakers: EDC & Pangeo Integration on EarthCODE - DEMO 16:52–17:12 – EO Arena This demonstration will provide a concise yet comprehensive overview of how the Pangeo ecosystem (on EDC) integrates seamlessly into EarthCODE. During this 20-minute talk, participants will learn about EarthCODE’s core capabilities that support FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and open-science principles for Earth Observation (EO) data. We will showcase: The demonstration will highlight how researchers can easily adapt existing workflows to their needs and ensure reproducibility by publishing results directly through EarthCODE’s integrated platforms.
Speakers: EarthCODE - A FAIR and Open Environment for Collaborative Research in Earth System Science - POSTER SESSION 17:45–19:00 – Poster Area The science and R&D community in EO and Earth Science are delivering a wealth of innovative EO research data (new products, new methods, new algorithms). FAIR and Open Science principles are increasingly being adopted as fundamental parts of the scientific research cycle. What are the most relevant approaches today that enable reproducibility in EO? What lessons can we learn from the most adopted solutions and how can we leverage technologies to gain more impact and use of the research data? What are the champions of reproducibility among the scientific community? Which domains are most advanced and how can we transfer knowledge and tools across the various EO domains? |
Explore the full symposium programme on the LPS25 website.