- What is CREODIAS?
- Computing & Cloud
- Data & Processing
- Pricing Plans
- Fight with COVID-19
- Examples of usage
- Land cover classification using remote sensing and AI/ML technology
- AI-based satellite image enhancer and mosaicking tools
- Monitoring air pollution using Sentinel-5P data
- Species classification of forests
- Enabling AI / ML workflows with CREODIAS vGPUs
- Satellite remote sensing analyses of the forest
- Satellite-based Urban Heat Island Mapping on CREODIAS
- Old but gold - historical EO data immediately available and widely used on CREODIAS
- CREODIAS for emergency fire management
- AgroTech project as an example of how CREODIAS can be used for food and environmental research
- Monitoring Air Quality of Germany in Pre vs During COVID Lockdown Period
- EO4UA
- Common Agricultural Policy monitoring with Earth Observation
- Applications of CREODIAS data
- Meteorological data usage on the CREODIAS platform
- Building added value under Horizon Europe with CREODIAS
- CREODIAS: Introduction to SAR Sentinel-1 data
- Land subsidence and landslides monitoring based on satellite data
- Satellite imagery in support of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and crop statistics
- Useful tools for data processing, available on CREODIAS platform
- CREODIAS for hydrological drought modelling
- CREODIAS for managing Urban Heat Islands
- CREODIAS for Digitising Green Spaces
- CREODIAS for Air Quality
- Advanced data processors on CREODIAS
- CREODIAS for your application
- Solutions for agriculture with CREODIAS
- Earth Observation data for Emergency response
- Security Applications with Satellite Data
- Climate Monitoring with Satellite Data
- Water Analysis on CREODIAS
- CREODIAS for land and agriculture monitoring
- Solutions for atmospheric analysis
- Example of tool usage
- Processing EO Data and Serving www services
- Processing and Storing EO
- Embedding OGC WMS Services into Your website
- GPU Use Case
- Using the EO Browser
- EO Data Finder API Manual
- Use of SNAP and QGIS on a CREODIAS Virtual Machine
- Use of WMS Configurator
- DNS as a Service - user documentation
- Use of Sinergise Sentinel Hub on the CREODIAS EO Data Hub
- Load Balancer as a Service
- Jupyter Hub
- Use of CREODIAS Finder for ordering data
- ESRI ArcGIS on CREODIAS
- Use of CEMS data through CREODIAS
- Searching, processing and analysis of Sentinel-5P data on CREODIAS
- ASAR data available on CREODIAS
- Satellite remote sensing analyses of the forest
- EO Data Catalogue API Manual
- Public Reporting Dashboards
- Sentinel Hub Documentation
- Legal Matters
- FAQ
- News
- Partner Services
- About Us
- Forum
- Knowledgebase
Pricing Plans
Billing Modes
Most services can be billed in the two main modes: per usage mode and fixed term mode.
In the Per Usage Mode an Administrator obtains a Credit which is an equivalent of a predefined sum of money. Later on Users of this Administrative Domain can start required services like VMs or Volume Storage or VPNaaS, FWaas, etc.. Services are started at the level of CREODIAS Dashboard User interface. Each of such Resources has its price in an hourly mode. Every 10 minutes the billing system checks on the used Resources and calculates a cost for this 10 minute period. This cost decreases the initial Credit. When the Credit goes below the predefined level – a warning is issued to a customer to resupply his Credit.
Billing checks are done every 10 minutes. This means that the current credit value is calculated every 10 minutes. But the events of service start – service stop are recorded with subsecond accuracy. Service usage time can be calculated to subsecond accuracy though statuses are changed not more often than 10 minutes. Pricing is quoted in hourly, monthly or longer time quanta. But where relevant the actual charging is done with subsecond accuracy – then fractions of an hourly price can be calculated and applied to a given service.
The ESA Prepaid services are available mostly in the Per Usage Mode. Each ESA Administrative Domain obtains the initial Credit and operates in the limits of this Credit. Domain Administrator on the ESA side is able to check on the Credit usage of each individual Project in the Domain.
In the Fixed Term Mode a Tenant buys a service for a fixed time period. The service price can be paid via a separate invoice or can be paid with the use of the same Credit mechanism as in case of Per Usage Mode.
In case of ESA Prepaid services the Bare Metal dedicated servers are available only in the Fixed Term Mode.
Other customers (ESA&Scientific or Business) are able to buy most services in both Per Usage Mode and Fixed Term Mode. Per Usage Mode allows for greater flexibility of the use. Fixed Term Mode is generally more economical but a customer has to exactly know what detailed services and for how long are really needed.
Fixed Term Mode services can be bought via EO Customer Portal that allows not only for service purchase but also for tenant account management, accounting and general support.
Apart from Per Usage and Fixed Term billing there are two ways of transaction management with customers. In Post-Paid Mode a service or Credit is delivered to a customer according to contract and a VAT invoice is issued. The invoice is later on paid by the customer. In Pre-Paid Mode no Credit or service is delivered to a customer – but a pro forma invoice is issued and delivered to a customer. After a customer pays the pro forma invoice – a final VAT invoice is issued and a Credit or services are only then provisioned to a customer.
Summary:
- Per Usage Mode: billed via a Credit; very flexible as services can be changed continuously; not all services available in Per Usage Mode (Bare Metal Machines).
- Fixed Term Mode: more economical (better process for long term service reservations); requires good planning and understanding of the needs; suitable for long term production purposes.
- Post-Paid payments: suitable for well-known contract customers.
- Pre-Paid payments: suitable for new or small customers, low transactions costs for the service provider.