APEx Project Environments

Collaborative workspaces to accelerate development and ensure long-term impact 

APEx Project Environments support EO teams by providing collaborative, ready-to-use workspaces tailored to their specific needs. Designed to assist projects throughout their entire lifecycle, these environments help accelerate development and enhance community engagement.

EO projects often involve partners from multiple institutions, making the setup of a shared environment that meets diverse requirements complex and time-consuming. This is precisely where APEx Project Environments offer a valuable solution.

These environments deliver fully equipped collaborative workspaces customized for your project. Whether you require a coding platform to develop and execute EO services, a public-facing portal to share news, or tools to explore and visualize geospatial data, APEx Project Environments are designed to support your team’s unique objectives.

Typical components of an environment include:

• A web portal to showcase objectives, partners, and outcomes
• Collaborative development and testing workspaces such as JupyterLab, CodeServer, and QGIS
• A STAC-based product catalogue to share your project’s results
• A Geospatial Explorer to interact with EO datasets
• A markdown-based documentation hub for technical and scientific content
• A user forum to foster community engagement
   

Ready-to-use environments to support seamless collaboration 

These tools can be connected and integrated to create seamless workflows. For instance, the project website can provide direct access to the Geospatial Explorer, which visualizes data products linked from the project’s catalogue entries. This deep integration makes the tools feel like parts of a unified, coherent environment, offering teams the experience of working within a well-structured project space.

Hosted and managed by APEx on European cloud infrastructure, these environments relieve your team from the burden of setup, configuration, and maintenance. With everything pre-configured, you can focus directly on advancing your project’s core goals.

Discover how you can streamline collaboration and accelerate within your EO project by using the APEx Project Environments.

Meet the APEx team at ESA's Living Planet Symposium

To learn more about the APEx Project Environments, you can join us for the:

• Demo: Empowering EO Projects with Cloud-Based Working Environments in APEx 
  D.04.21 — Friday 27.06.2025 — 13:07 - 13:27 — EO Arena

• Meet the team: Open Science in the Making - Foyer L2, Area 2
  Book a slot to meet the APEx team, discuss your project needs, ask questions, and explore opportunities for collaboration.

Discover all ESA APEx contributions during ESA LPS25 here.