Within an industrial consortia, leadered by ACS (IT), and together with German and French Aerospace Agencies (DLR and CNES), GTD has recently delivered a very modern and ambitious EO Image mining systems named KEO (Knowledge Earth Observation). This system employs Artificial Intelligence technology and implements a distributed component-based programming and processing environment, supporting extraction of information from EO images. KEO should permit to an expert to identify available components suitable for his application, to create new components mainly aimed at the extraction of information from images, to chain all these components and to create services from chained processing execution or extracted data. Extraction of information from images is one of the elements in the direction of empowering the user (researcher, service provider, end user, etc.) with the capability to easily identify relevant data (even from large, distributed and multi-domain sources) and to request, via advanced interfaces, their further processing to extract information.
