Security

Security by Design for Federated Earth Observation

The transition towards federated Earth Observation ecosystems requires more than interoperability. It requires trust.

MESEO integrates security as a fundamental architectural principle, enabling distributed processing, data sharing and service orchestration to operate securely across multiple organisations, infrastructures and missions.

Rather than protecting individual missions or isolated infrastructures, MESEO secures interactions across the entire ecosystem, enabling trusted collaboration while preserving operational autonomy.

The security architecture protects the complete End-to-End processing chain, from satellite communications and ground processing services to the EO Coordination Centre and external interfaces.

This approach allows organisations to collaborate with confidence while maintaining the integrity, availability and confidentiality of their systems and data.
Security is embedded throughout the architecture following a secure-by-design approach based on identity management, protected interfaces, authentication, traceability and resilient distributed services. Together, these principles enable secure operation across the federated ecosystem.

Security Capabilities

Identity & Access Management

Ensures that only authorised users and services can access processing functions, data and system resources across the federated ecosystem.

Secure Service Interfaces

Standardised, secure APIs enable trusted communication between satellite missions, processing services, external providers and the EO Coordination Centre.

Authentication & Traceability

Every interaction can be authenticated, monitored and traced, providing transparency and accountability throughout the processing chain.

Security Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of abnormal behaviour, helping to maintain the integrity and availability of the MESEO ecosystem.

Security by Design

Security is embedded throughout the entire MESEO processing chain.

It protects:

  • Satellite communications
  • Ground Processing Functions
  • EO Coordination Centre
  • Processing Services
  • External Interfaces
  • User Access
  • Data Exchange

ensuring that every interaction within the ecosystem is trusted, controlled and verifiable.