Remote sensing cloud services are the remote sensing application services provided through a network as a way of on-demand sharing of integrated remote sensing information and technological resources based-on cloud computing.Up on the analysis of service models and technical requirements

the author highlights the key technologies of remote sensing cloud services

including remote sensing data cloud storage

processing

application and security.We propose an architecture and functional design of the remote sensing cloud service platform and introduce a prototype developed by our R&D team.This remote sensing cloud service prototype allows users to choose required remote sensing data and software

and automatically deploys them to a virtual computer that users can access through Internet to perform their remote sensing data processing and application.Experiments show that the remote sensing cloud service platform can gather remote sensing information

software and computing resources from different providers

and provides them for sharing on user’s demand.Such a remote sensing service platform can significantly promote remote sensing to public users and a healthy development of the remote sensing industry.