CREODIAS
Public cloud computing
with an integrated satellite data respository
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 6,000 registered users from Europe and all over the world.
The most important benefits:
Free data
Earth observation data
immediately available online,
rich access intefaces
User tools
Easy data searching,
and browsing, interactive
and through API
Cloud computing
Immediate service launch,
processing with no need
for downloading
Affordable price
Competitive and predictable
prices of cloud services,
financing options, discounts
Customer support
Experienced support team,
three lines of premium
quality local support
Users services
Possibility to create
and share your own
services and apps
Satellite data
Earth observation data stored on the CREODIAS platform is open, public, and free. The repository has over 21 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.
Rich access interfaces
Users can access the satellite data repository in several ways, including the S3 object interface, NFS file interface, zipped download, WMS / WMTS, and using the REST API or POSIX access technology. Check data access details.
CREODIAS users can process data directly from the repository, without the need for time-consuming downloading to their own environment. Access to data is fast and efficient - our tests have shown the ability to download up to 2 PB of data per day.
CREODIAS platform home page
Cloud computing
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.
Prices and financing options
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 financing options, in particular full funding for cloud services for science from OCRE project.
Check the price list of cloud computing services on CREODIAS.
User tools
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:

Creodias
Portal
home page of the environment, combining account management with a knowledge base, communication channels and customer service support: creodias.eu

Horizon
Dashboard
a graphic service in the OpenStack technology that allows you to manage your resources.

Creodias
Finder
advanced search engine for earth observation products, offering graphical interface and API: CREODIAS Finder

Creodias
Browser
a simplified tool for visualizing satellite images at different processing levels. It allows searching using SPRAQL and semantic search: CREODIAS Browser

Jupiter
Notebooks
on-line computing environment, accessible from a web browser, satellite data repository available to registered users at no extra charge, support for many programming languages

Solutions for browsing and searching for data are an integral part of the platform
and are available on the CREODIAS Browser and Finder websites.
Possibility to create own services
CREODIAS users have the possibility to develop their own applications and services and share them on the platform. These external applications complement the functionality of the CREODIAS environment. If the requirements of other users are unusual and complicated, they can use the functionalities provided by such services. Check third party catalog on CREODIAS.

EO data repository and catalogue
- Public collections
- Cache
- Private collections
- Data search OCS / OpenSearch / SPARQL
- Data access - NFS / S3 / http / OGC WMS / WMTS / WCS
Cloud Services - IaaS
- Compute
- EO data processing
- Virtual Network
- Object Storage / Block Storage
- Backup
User Tools
- CREODIAS Browser
- CREODIAS Finder
- CREODIAS portal cloud dashboard
- CREODIAS Jupyter
- Notebooks
- Third party apps