Guenther Landgraf (ESA)

After graduating in 1986 in Computer Science at TU Vienna, and 8 years of work in industry, Günther started his ESA career in 1993 as responsible for the Multi-mission User Services in the Earth Observation Directorate of the European Space Agency. In 2017 he switched to the Exploitation department where as Head of the Digital Platforms section he managed the “Exploitation Platform” programatic action line, stimulating the European EO platform ecosystem with several innovation activities to push European actors to provide world-leading operational offerings like the Thematic Exploitation Platforms, Euro Data Cube, Open EO Platform, etc. The initiatitive is also supporting uptake by sponsoring free-at-point-of-use access to these capabilities for research purposes via the Network of Resources.