[Update 15th May 2025]

CloudFerro, the operator of CREODIAS, is adding two additional cloud regions for CREODIAS users – WAW3-2 and FRA1-2.

The WAW3-2 region, based in Warsaw, Poland, is built on OpenStack Yoga. It offers a significant increase in computing power compared to older regions and will be connected to the EODATA main repository via multiple 100 Gbit/s links. This ensures high-speed data access and processing. This region also features a user-friendly Kubernetes platform for automated deployment, enhancing efficiency and productivity. The primary computing offering is based on AMD processors and offers very competitive pricing. From a user’s perspective, this means better performance per euro compared to other cloud providers. Additionally, there are VMs with local storage ideally suited for data processing or building Kubernetes clusters. We have also improved SSD network block storage performance over previous clouds. WAW3-2 shares a data center location with the WAW3-1 cloud.

The FRA1-2 region, based in Frankfurt, Germany, is also built on OpenStack Yoga. It is distinct from the WAW3 and CF2 regions (CF2 has been shut down at the end of April 2025), yet provides significant computing power and is connected to the EODATA main repository, ensuring high-speed data access and processing. This region also features a user-friendly Kubernetes platform for automated deployment, enhancing efficiency and productivity. The computing offerings are similar in terms of CPU and flavor compositions to WAW3-1. This region is located in our FRA1 data center, which is BSI certified.

Both regions will become available in June to CREODIAS customers. If you need more computing power or want to test the new regions, please reach out to the Support Team at support@creodias.eu or your sales representative.

The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem was launched in January 2023 to provide the largest EO data offering in the world, with outstanding discovery and download capabilities, and a set of data processing tools. Since then, it has been continuously developed. CloudFerro, CREODIAS operator, plays a key role in a Consortium that is building the new service.

Here are some new features introduced recently that users can take advantage from:

  • New Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem portal with enriched UI design.
  • Major functional upgrade for Copernicus Browser – improved UI, new product types are available for searching, and the Browser is now available for non-registered users.
  • S3 API available – one can now use S3 to access Earth Observation data on Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem.
  • On-Demand Production API for non-ESA IPF processors. The first release of the ordering of product generation through the API is available.
  • Sentinel products started to be traced. Users will be able to track the lifecycle of a data product. The lifecycle begins when the product is created, it includes the copying to a number of archives and a possible deletion thereof, and it will ultimately end when a product is marked as obsolete. The trace information is now available for currently ingested new EO products and will be gradually generated for the remaining products in the repository.

Next major functional upgrades of the platform are planned for July 2023.

CREODIAS users can now have commercial access to a new range of VHR (very high resolution) images of satellites managed by AxelSpace GRUS, a Japanese microsatellite company.

AxelSpace's GRUS constellation is designed to provide high-resolution optical imagery of the Earth's surface, focusing on frequent revisits to any point on the planet. The satellites are equipped with high-resolution optical cameras capable of capturing images with a resolution of up to 2.5 meters. By adding AxelSpace GRUS imagery to its platform, Creodias will be able to offer customers an even wider range of Earth observation data for a variety of applications, including agriculture, forestry, urban planning, and disaster response.

The GRUS constellation is designed to provide frequent revisits to any point on the Earth's surface, with a target of a daily revisit frequency. This makes it an ideal tool for monitoring changes on the Earth's surface, such as crop growth, deforestation, and urbanization, as well as for disaster response and management.

AxelSpace plans to expand the GRUS constellation in the future, with a goal of having over 50 satellites in orbit by 2025. This will further increase the revisit frequency and coverage area of the constellation, allowing it to provide even more valuable data for Earth observation and analysis.

Specification of GRUS constellation:

  • Satellite size and weight: Each GRUS satellite measures 50 cm x 50 cm x 70 cm and weighs about 100 kg.
  • Orbit: The GRUS satellites are placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of around 500 km.
  • 5 spectral bands, including Blue, Green, Red, Red-edge, and Near-infrared.
  • Imaging capabilities: The satellites are equipped with high-resolution optical cameras that can capture images with a resolution of up to 2.5 meters. The cameras are capable of capturing multispectral images in the visible and near-infrared ranges.
  • Revisit time: The constellation is designed to provide frequent revisits to any point on the Earth's surface, with a target of a daily revisit frequency.
  • Mission lifetime: The expected mission lifetime for each satellite is about 5 years.

Check the entire VHR EODATA+ offer.

A new virtual machine image with Sen4CAP version 3.2 is available on the CREODIAS platform. It comes with many bugfixes and improvements:

  • An update to a new CREODIAS API for data discovery and download
  • A resolved issue with the generation of level-3 and level-4 products before the level-2 (pre-processed) products were available for the past vegetation seasons
  • The USGS data source was adjusted to retrieve products after 20 October 2022 (API changes)
  • Automatic verification of Sentinel-1B data availability and suitable adjustment of the master/slave interval (6/12 days) during Sentinel-1 coherence computation
  • Availability of additional statistics for marker database i.e. median, 25 & 75 percentiles
  • Enhanced site creation dialogue in the web interface.

Funding for Sen4CAP service on the CREODIAS platform is available through the ESA Network of Resources (NoR) scheme as a Data processing as a Service (DPaaS).

For more information, please us at sales@creodias.eu.