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University of Munich, Germany, in 2008. Shortly after
graduating, he joined the German Remote Sensing Data
Center of the German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He is responsible for the management of
hardware and operating system-level software of the German Satellite Data Archive. In 2012, he also took responsibility in the field of project management of the Sentinel-5
Precursor payload data ground segment, planning and
deploying the necessary communication networks and archiving facilities.
Nicolas weiland (Nicolas.weiland@dlr.de) received the
Dipl. degree in computer science from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, in 2008. Since
2009, he has been with the German Remote Sensing Data
Center of the German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He started as a software developer for
the Data and Information Management System, where he
was responsible for the product library. Since 2011, he has
been working as a system engineer for the payload data
ground segment of the European Space Agency/European
Union Sentinel-5 Precursor mission within the European
Copernicus Program.
Eberhard Mikusch (eberhard.mikusch@dlr.de) received the Dipl. degree in computer science from the
University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany, in
1983. Since 1983, he has been with the German Aerospace
Center (DLR). From 1983 to 1987, he was a development
engineer for the Electrical Ground Support Environment
and designed DLR's image processing system for the Halley multicolor camera of the European Giotto Mission.
From 1987 to 1992, he was responsible for designing the
Ground Support Program Equipment of the Anthrorack
experiment of the Spacelab Mission D-2. From 1996 to
2003, he lead the software development team establishing the multimission Data and Information Management
System used within several Earth-observation missions
including TerraSAR-X. Since 2004, he has been the head
of the Information Technology Department of DLR's German Remote Sensing Data Center. His research interests
include optimizing Earth-observation archiving and access infrastructures for high-volume data provision in distributed multimission environments.
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