The French Land Data and Services Center: Theia

The TREIA land data and services center was created with the objective of increasing the use of space data in complementarity with other types of data (in particular in situ, airborne data) by the scientific community and more generally the public actors. TREIA is structuring the French science community through 1) a mutualized Service and Data Infrastructure (SDI) distributed between several centers, allowing access to a variety of products; 2) the setup of Regional Animation Networks (RAN) to federate users (scientists and public / private actors) and 3) Scientific Expertise Centers (SEC) clustering virtual research groups on a thematic domain. A strong relationship between SECs and RANs is being developed to both disseminate the outputs to the user communities and aggregate the user needs. The research works carried out in two SECs are presented. They are organized around the design and development of value-added products and services.