CREODIAS - public cloud with Earth observation data

CREODIAS is a public cloud with an integrated repository of satellite images, equipped with a range of applications allowing users to search, view, and process satellite products. The architecture of the environment gives users access to diverse remote sensing data and computing resources to process them, ensuring simplicity, scalability, and repeatability of production processes and chains.

CloudFerro operates and develops the CREODIAS platform on behalf of the European Space Agency, as part of the Copernicus program managed by the European Commission. CREODIAS is one of the European DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) platforms, aimed at facilitating access to satellite data and ensuring the possibility of its processing in the cloud, as well as the creation of its own applications and services.

The main assumption of the CREODIAS platform is to reduce the technological and financial requirements faced by all entities - public administration, science, and business - interested in using satellite data in their products and services. The environment combining free Copernicus satellite data, complemented by very high resolution (VHR) imagery, competitively priced cloud computing infrastructure and convenient user tools, allows remote sensing data or its derivatives to be incorporated into production chains at a fraction of the previous cost.

The platform already has over 8,000 registered users from Europe and all over the world.

Earth observation data stored on the CREODIAS platform is open, public, and free. The repository has over 30 petabytes of data and grows by over 20 terabytes a day.

The collection of satellite data in the CREODIAS environment includes most of the available products from the Sentinel family: Sentinel-1A & Sentinel-1B, Sentinel-2A & Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-3A & Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-5P. Additionally, the historical archives of LANDSAT 5, 7, and 8, ENVISAT, and SMOS are available. There are also collections of specialized Copernicus services - Atmosphere, Marine, Land Areas, Climate Change, Security, and Crisis Management.

The free Copernicus data is complemented by commercial very high resolution (VHR) imagery, which is suitable for projects that require very high accuracy. These are multispectral, night and radar images, and come from different VHR providers.

View available free Copernicus data collections and commercial VHR data collections.

CREODIAS offers cloud computing services for satellite data processing: compute, storage, backup, data-related services, virtual networks, security, and others. The cloud infrastructure operating for the CREODIAS uses the OpenStack software, whose architecture consists of many interacting modules responsible for controlling processor resources, memory, and network infrastructure.

Users can manage their resources through the Horizon portal with graphical support or through the REST web interface. Infrastructure and services have been optimized for processing and working with satellite data. Optimization also regards the operation of external applications.

View available cloud computing services on CREODIAS.

Cloud infrastructure is available in several billing models:

•    pay per use (per hour)
•    fixed term (long term contracts)
•    revenue sharing

We provide free credits for testing the platform, discounts for science, various , in particular full funding for cloud services for science from project.

Check the price list of cloud computing services on CREODIAS.

Thanks to the applications developed by CloudFerro, which are milestones in the search and selection of earth observation (EO) products, the user can incorporate data into his production process faster and more efficiently. These apps include:

The group of experienced support specialists is ready to respond to any questions and requests of our customers. We support cloud environments, satellite products, and various satellite data applications. We help initialize the users' cloud environment in our infrastructure.

Learn more about our customer services.