MAAP: The Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform: A New Virtual and Collaborative Environment for the Scientific Community

The ESA-NASA multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) is dedicated to the BIOMASS [1], NISAR [2] and GEDI [3] missions. This analysis platform will be a virtual open and collaborative environment. The main goal is to bring together data centres (Earth Observation and non-Earth Observation data), computing resources and hosted processing in order to better address the needs of scientists and federate the scientific community.