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European Space Agency Case Study

European Space Agency engages with Piql in digital transformation and preservation project The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen Piql to support its long-term digital preservation project for historical satellite images. This includes digitisation from various media, file treatment for long term preservation and secure offline storage.

BACKGROUND ESA, located in Frascati outside of Rome in Italy, organises and archives a wide range of historical satellite missions, going back to the previous century. The institution, with more than 700 employees, has an enduring and strong attention on being forward leaning in their digitisation and preservation strategies.

The space industry has a stringent focus on data survival and accessibility with the aim to keep historical infor mation useable for research and commercial purposes. Overcoming the challenge of technological obsolescence while implementing best practice for digital archives has been an ongoing focus for the archival division of ESA.