 Good afternoon everyone. Thank you very much for joining our webinar today. My name is Claudia Bielinska and today with my colleague Michal Bielicki, we would like to invite you for a short introduction about Creodias and will give you some hints and tips how to use founding opportunities to access Creodias cloud services. So today's agenda for our webinar is the introduction to Creodias. Perhaps some of you are already Creodias users, some of you maybe are not. So I will show you just in a few slides what is Creodias about. I will show what tools do we have for science and research. Then just a short inspiration, some use cases, how Creodias was used by research and development institutions. And then we will move to the core of our webinar, Founding Opportunities. So first of all, Creodias. Creodias is a cloud platform with enormous satellite data repository. So we can say that we can divide Creodias into Creodias portal, where you can find our tools, your browser and your finder. Then when we will move deeply, we go to cloud dashboard and then we can use cloud services. So Creodias was developed under the European Space Agency program. From Foundings, from ESA, from you. And the data which you can find on Creodias, they are coming from Copernicus scientific program. So all of the Sentinel collections are available there and you can make a good use of them for your projects. Creodias is a data repository and also a great environment for the data processing and for the data storage. So depending what are you going to do on Creodias, you can choose virtual machines tailored for your needs. So with the very fast processors, with a big data repository and with a big catalog for storing your data. So whenever we are talking about cloud services, we should indicate that it's data computing, data processing, storage. And then you can also disseminate the data of your work, of your processes. So why choosing cloud for research and development projects? I can say from my previous experience when I was working at some scientific organizations that whenever we were obtaining, whenever we were getting some funds for the project and concerning also big data, we were finding for the best solution to process the data and to store the data. So it was just, the cloud was the best solution for it because we didn't have to buy special specific servers, special specific computers. But with the equipment, with our hardware on board, we could access in a really easy way the cloud and then make a good advantage of the potential of the cloud. So if only your projects require fast and efficient processors and large scalable data storage. If you are using for your project satellite data, if you are processing big data, the cloud is the answer for your needs. So what CREODAS offers? At one point we are offering cloud with the data storage, data catalog and processing environment. On the other hand, you can also use cloud but also with the data repository. So depending on your project and depending what do you intend to do. So whenever we are talking about data collection, we should emphasize that the data collection, which is available on CREODAS, it's a great data collection because first of all we have the Copernicus data. So it's Sentinel mission. So starting from the radar Sentinel, so Sentinel 1, then Sentinel 2, Sentinel 3. I'm sure that all of you know that Sentinel has different resolutions. So the bands are divided. So you can choose if you're using the data, processing the data on 10, 20 or 60 meter resolution. So we have the full archive of Sentinel data and the data are really up to date all of the time. Then we have also Sentinel 5P. We have the data for atmospheric purposes and also we have data from Landsat satellite even from 1984 year. But the only operating satellite from Landsat is Landsat 8. So from 2013 year until now we have all of the data available. And also data from NVSAT and SMOS satellites. Then it's also good to know that within the Copernicus Scientific Program there are created specific Copernicus services. So these services are dedicated for specific purposes like atmosphere monitoring, emergency lands monitoring and marine. So within those services you can find specific data collections and data processed for the purposes of your needs. Let's say. What other data collections you can find on Creodias? So you can find digital elevation models. So here on Creodias we have four different digital elevation models. So they are available accessing through S3 or NFS protocol. So you can find them and use them on the Creodias cloud. We have also data from JSON3. So these are the ultimate data. And we have also data as to GLC, so Sentinel to Global Land Cover. This is the classification of Sentinel to data. And later on I will tell you more about this data set. To fulfill some gaps and to fulfill needs of our users we came up with an idea to present also and to give you possibility to make a use of very high resolution commercial data. Of course when we say commercial so it means that for this data you have to pay to access the data. All of the data which I showed you previously so Sentinel data and Sentinel services these data are publicly available for free for everyone. But coming back to commercial data sets so we have the data which are available are the data from Chinese satellite, Zhilin-1 from Kazakhstan and also Korean com satellite. So here you can see that the resolution of the data is completely different from Sentinel. So here we can indicate some centimeters resolution up to four meter resolution. For this data are very good for specific purposes for detecting smaller parts, small buildings or other different features on the imagery. Creo-DS offers a variety of tools which can be used by science. So first of all when you access our Creo-DS portal you can find their EO browser and EO finder. So EO browser is a specific application dedicated for browsing the data. So you can search the data for a specific area. You can visualize the data and you can also change the visualization using different bands. You can download the imagery from EO browser but it's not going to be downloaded as a full data set as a full Sentinel data set but it will be downloaded as an EMG file. So just a visualization. But then we have also EO finder. So this application is for finding and downloading the data to your computer. So we see that some of our Creo-DS users, the users are divided into groups. So the one group is a real Creo-DS cloud user. So the users are not downloading the data to their computer but using the data in the cloud. So accessing the data in the cloud, processing them in the cloud. But other users prefer to download the data to their computers and process the data in a specific software. So depending on your needs. But when you're using cloud environment the first let's say step is a cloud dashboard. So cloud dashboard allows you to launch virtual machines to choose different flavors for your virtual machines to see how the data are being processed on your virtual machine. Creo-Dias is also a great place for different third party applications. So for example we have S2C's application where you can preview some sentinel data in 2D and also which is in use in 3D visualization. On Creo-Dias, Jupyter Notebook is also available. So for those of you who are using scripts who are writing scripts in Python, Jupyter Notebook is a very good place for doing that. Yes, EO Finder which I mentioned about. So this application is for finding and downloading the data. So you can indicate an area of interest for the data set you are looking for. You can upload a polygon. So for example from another project the polygon which will indicate specific area. You can indicate the time when the data was acquired or the time when the data was published online. You can indicate the cloud coverage and also the data collection of the data sets which you are looking for. So the full collection of sentinels, Landsat and also S2GLC data sets. So you can visualize the data, you can download the data and then make a good use of the data for your projects. And the Jupyter Notebook. So the free prototyping tool. You can write your scripts in Jupyter Notebook and then use them for data processing. It's interactive processing environment and from Jupyter Notebook here on CreeoDios you have direct access to Earth observation data repository. So I think that the overall look of CreeoDios is really, I would say, friendly for different users and for different purposes. It's worth mentioning that CreeoDios has over 5,000 of users. So from different sectors, from different fields and from different countries. But here you can see just the parts of our customers and partners. So you can see that we are cooperating with European Space Agency, ECMWF, universities, research and development organizations, universities worldwide and different space agencies. So customers and partners are using our environment for their projects in different areas. To inspire you how you can use CreeoDios I would like to show you two examples of specific projects which were developed on the CreeoDios platform. So first project is to S2GLC LandCover classification. So the LandCover classification which was performed on Sentinel-2 dataset, it was performed in 2017 by Space Recept Centre, Polish Academy of Science. It is a very detailed classification of Sentinel data. So here we can see the dataset divided into classes. And what is important, that this dataset is available for free for everyone on the CreeoDios platform. So if you need some classification dataset for your projects, you can use the dataset from Sentinel-2 as to GLC. Another project which was also developed in Poland by Institute of Geodesian Cartography Space Research Centre and the users of this project were the main statistical office and the agency for restructuring and manufacturing of agriculture. So let's say paying agency. That was a project EOSAT. So in this project the classification of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data was done, was performed. So as far as I know that was object classification and automatic classification. So the intention of this project was to perform classification year by year and then to see this classification was done to see differences between crops every year. So it was after the dataset were processed, were classified it was easy to compare the data with each other and to see how the environment, how the crops changed over the years. So these are only two projects which were developed on CreeoDios. So we know that our customers are receiving funds from European Space Agency and other possible institutions and they are developing their projects on our platform with a big success. So that was all from my part and then the core of our presentation Founding Opportunities. Thank you Claudia for this presentation CreeoDios functionalities and let me switch to Founding Opportunities. So in this part I would like to briefly present you how we cooperate on a daily basis with scientific institutions and other customers and first of all I would like to show you briefly what we offer for you I would like to introduce the OCRA initiative for scientific institutions and mention other Founding Opportunities that may be useful when you are looking for financing for your projects. So first of all all the services that Claudia presented to you like you find there's Jupyter notebooks and so on they are available for free on CreeoDios platform and you can simply go to CreeoDios.eu and register or login if you have an account and you can start using the Earth Observation data and find your browser and Jupyter notebook on the spot and this is just something we provide free of charge for all users Then we have infrastructure as a service so we offer virtual machines object storage, block storage and so on data transfer and all the services are supported with our comprehensive and professional support which is also available free of charge and we provide the rich knowledge base for these services so in case you don't know how to start using the services or you need some even technical advice this is something we also provide on a daily basis while providing you the services and the important message is that you can start testing the services even the commercial one free of charge even now because we provide free credits to our customers it's 150 euro worth credits so we allow you to use an EO1X medium virtual machine for a year or some more intensive do some more intensive processing for several weeks or to test the storage solution so you can test all our offer free of charge just by registering to Criodias and applying for free credits and we will be happy to provide you with okay there is an open cloud for research environments this is the initiative that aims to demonstrate the positive impact that cloud and digital services have on research projects and the main idea of the initiative is to show how the education and research project can use clouds cloud to enhance the efficiency to scale up the project to use the advanced analytics and machine learning and collaborative tools so we provide researchers with this access to commercial cloud and digital services and drive the adoption of services and simulate European research and education community to use cloud services and there are two main paths so one path is just for the cloud cloud services for research projects and one path is in parallel where earth observation related services are financed so on the one hand you can finance the projects that are related to earth observation but not only because there are two parallel paths and this funding is available for 39 European countries and this is directly for research and education community so it's available through andrend organizations so national national sensors for educational network and they are free waves in which you can apply for these resources the one wave is for individual researchers with the project the second wave is for projects managed by an institution and the third wave is for the consortia of institutions and in this project you can apply for a voucher that will allow you to finance the project and there are several bundles but it's usually depending on the wave for which the project or the call is dedicated it's either 50,000 or up to 100,000 euro and the important issue is that it allows you to finance the cloud resources but it won't allow you to it won't allow you to cover the person working hours so this is just strictly vouchers to finance your infrastructural needs and the advantage of the ochre project is that this is quite easy and clear applying path for the project so in case you have an idea that can demonstrate how your project perhaps even currently existing can leverage from using cloud resources you can apply for the credits and there is a formula on the website in which you can briefly describe how your project will leverage from the cloud and what will be the goal of the project and then in a few months you will have the answer and it's not announced yet when exactly there will be the next call it should be in a few months fortunately next week there is a webinar in the ochre consortium so you can register this webinar and they should next week announce when the new call for the project is going to happen but I really recommend this project since they are really let's say research friendly they are really seeking for an interesting project that can use cloud resources and also the projects that are using Earth observation but these are let's say two separate things that are happening in parallel then in case you are using Earth observation data for instance are participating in ISA project you can apply for network of resources network of resources funding and there are two findings first of all for ISA projects you can apply for infrastructure infrastructural resources and then if you have some other needs but you are not back by ISA you can apply for some financing from platform resources I see that I have not provided the link for the Nord portal I will do it later on in the chat in a few minutes then the more traditional way to apply for the resources is that we provide you I already mentioned the free bundle of credits that you can use for the purpose of your project and the free tools on our KoreaDias platform we also have special discount 18.5% for scientific institutions and we are also happy to provide you some additional discount in case your project is a long term project or some kind of partnership and finally if you have other ideas we are very happy to cooperate in a different manner for instance we are participating in several Horizon 2020 projects we apply for grants from national and international research centers we can we can provide you some environment for testing if you have an idea we also are able to participate in ISA or other projects that needs that needs cloud resource and yes and we are even able in case you have some idea and you don't know how to finance it we are able to help you with finding an appropriate program for you so I encourage you to contact us and we will see if we are able to provide you with either some additional resources for the purpose of your project or if we can find together some projects to meet on a more partnership basis so I think this is it so this was very short introduction very short presentation from us from our site but let's try to stay in touch and talk about your ideas and how we can support you in using Creo-DIS for your projects for your work so please contact us yes one more thing in case you are interested more in details how to use Creo-Dias we have also published the webinars with introduction to how to technically use the Creo-Dias and on more technical issues so we encourage you to have a look at this so please follow our social media and stay tuned for other upcoming webinars ok thank you very much bye bye