enhancing eo data with distributed ledger technology...consensys is a global blockchain technology...
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ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use
Enhancing EO Data with Distributed
Ledger Technology
Robert Keenan
12/09/2019
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AGENDA
● Background
● Our Original EO Blockchain Concept
● What We Learned
● Applying Those Learnings
● Future Opportunities We See
● How To Get Us There
ConsenSys is a global blockchain
technology company building the
infrastructure, applications, and
practices that enable a decentralized
world.
Founded in 2014, ConsenSys has
become a pioneer in the blockchain
ecosystem.
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Our Original Proof-of-Concept
● In partnership with Radiant.Earth, we built an application that:
○ Hashed the ownership and licensed status of commercial images
○ Made a user’s NGO status widely referenceable by distributing it across all
nodes
○ Recorded all EO data access requests on a shared Ethereum ledger
○ Minted a native token to incentivize end-user behavior
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What We Learned
● Trust needs to scale across the industry
● Secure digital identities need to function across platforms
● The importance of mitigating GIGO potential
● Downstream value attribution is tricky
● Need higher TPS
● Utilize what tools already exist
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How Can We Apply These Learnings?
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INDUSTRY STANDARDS!
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Industry Standards
● Identity related
○ End users
○ Sensor IDs
○ Asset metadata identifiers
○ Insight deriving algorithms and processes
○ Ground-segments
● Encryption related
○ Up-link
○ Down-link
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Industry Standards
● Submitted two proposals to OGC Test-Bed 15
○ “Quality of Service” Standard
■ Web Processing Service endpoint for Geohazards Exploitation
Platform
■ Co-authored with Terradue
○ EO data provenance metadata standard
■ Tested on Consensys product Treum
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SCALING SOLUTIONS!
Private chains secured by public chainsWith Ethereum, you can create a system of two or more chains, where one chain is public permissionless and the others are private or public permissioned and are anchored on the public permissionless chain.
Kaleido, a platform for creating enterprise blockchains, has created a repeatable framework for automatically writing periodic snapshots of private chains to the Ethereum public chain.
The application layer: (1) manages interactions with the main net and ensures the private chain and the public chain are up-to-date; (2) Send hash only date to the public chain to create a tamper proof record or perform some other function with a non private chain party
Private Chain within Firewall Application Layer Eth ereum Public Chain
Hash
Confirmed Transaction
Hybrid Chains: Multiple private chains can interact via the public chain
A
Using the hybrid model, multiple private chains can interact and trade with each other while controlling their own data.
C
B
D
Pay Company B 10 Eth if Company C has transfer it
asset to Company D
Company C confirms delivery of assert to
Company D
Company B receives notification of transaction
and receives 10 Eth
Company D confirms it received asset from
Company C
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START BUILDING!
Public Network Protocol Engineering
Enables enterprises to easily build and scale
applications without the need to set up their
own nodes or wallets.
12 billion daily code requests
The largest protocol engineering team in the
Ethereum ecosystem with more than 50
developers.
Partnerships: Microsoft, Truffle, Infura &
Kaleido
Developer tools to facilitate the creation and
testing of enterprise blockchains.
>500,000 downloads
Open source Ethereum client in Java. Designed
for enterprise and mainnet applications
Protocol implementation on public and private
high-speed networks
Browser extension enabling enterprises to
interact with blockchain and decentralised
applications.
1.3 million downloads
SaaS full stack platform that develops,
operates, scales and governs enterprise level
private blockchains at scale, at a fraction of
the cost.
Partnership with Amazon
Tools and Products
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© 2019 ConsenSys
Pharma Education Food Autos Earth Observation
Counterfeit drugs
Tracking of data for
clinical trials
Compliance
reporting concerns
Administrative records
Certification fraud
Diploma validation
lag time
Grade & Credits mgt
Administrative records
Food recalls
Food illnesses
Inventory management
Administrative records
Car valuation
Auto parts tracking
Working capital mgt
Recalls
EO Image Metadata
EO Hard Asset tracking
Access Management
Multi-Platform
Integration
A tamper proof asset tracking system for all participants to instantly trust and reliably validate asset ownership, chain
of custody, proof of origin did not exist. This is why Treum was created.
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Future Opportunities We See
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Thank You!
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