The ESA Earth Observation Payload Data Ground Segment ...

MM related activities Various other activities are presently on-going that followthe standardisation/harmonisation of the EO PDGS: HARM (Historical Archive Rationalization and Management) is aproject that aims at converting the entire EO archive into acommon format, removing overlaps between consecutive datadumps from satellite SAFE (Standard Archive Format for Europe), started as part ofthe HARM project, is now proceeding along an independent line, toprovide ESA with a standard EO format that can be used by ahigher variety of missions/sensors, for both L0 and higherprocessing levels products (http://earth.esa.int/safe) HMA (Heterogeneous Missions Access) provides a set ofstandardised interface specifications for catalogue, ordering,reporting, in particular promoted outside ESA to enhance theinteroperability among different EO data holders MACS (MMFI Automatic Configuration System) aims at simplifyingand automating the configuration of the MMFI for specificmissions/workflows. Also improves configuration control.