In the last 20 years, the European Commission gradually developed a constellation of Earth Observation satellites named Copernicus. The infrastructure is today able to collect petabytes of data every day, making such data available for everyone for free.

Some renowned firms decided to build their digital ecosystem to offer value-added services based on the combination of such free data with other sources of data (e.g., public records, in-situ sensors, etc.) or technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum). These digital ecosystems rely on different sources of data, different processing activities, and more broadly, different governance mechanisms.

The thesis aims at deep diving into the configuration of digital ecosystems leveraging Copernicus data, exploring the antecedents and the process which led to their design.

Couples of students will have the priority in the assignment of such work.