Advanced merging and publishing of partitioned job results

[soxofaan]

from #52

• metadata of final result: properly merge metadata of subjobs (e.g. STAC collection)
• "publication" of results: e.g. VRT generation of (partial) result, or upload to a STAC catalog

[m-mohr]

Do I understand correctly that it is planned if a job is split and executed at EODC and VITO, the results stay in the data centers and the aggregator combines them just by providing a Collection pointing to the sub results? (If yes, great. If no, why?)

[soxofaan]

Indeed, merging at the metadata level and keeping the actual data as-is would at least be the initial and obvious approach.

I remember people discussing in the forum (I think) about a feature to also stitch sub-results to a single geotiff or netcdf, but that's a lot less trivial to achieve, and no concrete plans there so far.