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To address these key challenges and move towards sustainable development, we need to more rapidly provide relevant information on these drivers and their changes.

Key environmental challenges arising from global change drivers (e.g., land use change, climate change, pollution, (over-)exploitation of resources, invasions) need to be overcome to manage the continuously growing pressures on countries’ natural resources. SDC derived analysis ready data supports generation of environmental information, allowing to inform a variety of environmental policies with unprecedented timeliness and quality. Based on a cloud-computing platform allowing to access, visualize and analyse optical (Sentinel-2 Landsat 5, 7, 8) and radar (Sentinel-1) imagery, the SDC minimizes the time and knowledge required for environmental analyses, by offering consistent calibrated and spatially co-registered satellite observations. Here we present the Swiss Data Cube (SDC), unleashing the information power of Big Earth Data for monitoring the environment, providing Analysis Ready Data over the geographic extent of Switzerland since 1984, which is updated on a daily basis.

Given rapid environmental changes and the emergence of big data, innovative solutions are needed to support policy frameworks and related actions toward sustainable development. Fully exploiting these satellite EO data will require new approaches for their acquisition, management, distribution, and analysis. Since the opening of Earth Observation (EO) archives (USGS/NASA Landsat and EC/ESA Sentinels), large collections of EO data are freely available, offering scientists new possibilities to better understand and quantify environmental changes.