 Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. It is a pleasure to be with you. My name is Stanislav Krzysztofowski. With me is my colleague, Miho Belitski. We are working at the Business Development Department here at CloudFerro, and today we want to talk to you about how you can use Creatias for scientific activities. So let's start. I will start with a short introduction to Creatias. I suppose that majority of you knows what Creatias is. It's somewhat familiar with the platform, but I will spend a couple of minutes to introduce the rest. Next, I want to describe data and tools that are, in our opinion, useful to scientific communities. So I will try to bring to the table the best what we offer to scientific communities to help them develop their research and applications. I will finish my part with an inspiration, I hope. I have a couple of examples of what can be done with Creatias in terms of scientific research. Then I will hand over the lecture to my colleague, who will give you an insight into the funding opportunities that we have recognized and want to pass to you. So let's start with the Creatias. Creatias is one of the diocese, diocese means Copernicus data and information access. It is a big data cloud platform for Earth observation data discovery, storing, downloading and processing, equipped with a set of technologies and tools that allow our users to do it. For the scientific communities, we believe that we have identified a number of challenges that members of the scientific community face when it comes to working with the Earth observation data. The first of those challenges is access to the data itself. Commonly access is not easy. It requires resources, networking, time, computing and so on and Creatias and our tools that we will show in a minute come forward to face this challenge, to make it easier for scientists. But even having the environment working, we know that for some of you, for some more scientific users, first contact with such a complex platform might be overwhelming. So we want to... those webinars and what we do is aimed at guiding you and making it easier for you to utilize at least parts of the platform so you can boost, you can enhance your capabilities during your research. So let's start with data. To what data users of Creatias have access and to what data you can have access when you pursue your scientific goals. The core set of collections available in the Creatias are collections from the Sentinel satellite family. Those are Sentinel's one, Sentinel's two, three and Sentinel 5P. This table, I will not describe in detail that table. It depicts what data types from each collections are available and how they are available. I will just describe you what does it mean. Full archive means that the whole collection, the coverage of the whole globe is available locally within the Earth observation data repository of the platform. When we are signifying that something is or durable or cached that means that to access that data you have to perform a query and order and that data will be ready in a later date because it's either have to be downloaded from the long-term archives or it has to be processed in a dedicated fashion, especially for you. So I've told you about those Sentinel's. I've mentioned the Sentinel 5P. Additionally, we host the Landsat 5, 7 and 8 data. As you know, only the Landsat 8 is still operational. So we collect up-to-date data for your use. Additionally, we have collections from NVSAT and SMOS. Those are to non-longer... Sorry, SMOS is operational and NVSAT Maris is not operational. They're also available for your use. To complement that data, four out of six Copernicus services data sets are available on the Creadias. Those are listed here. Additionally, with the digital elevation maps of different sorts, the main DEM that is being used is the Copernicus DEM and the SRTM. We have a couple others as well. Recently, we have added the option, the possibility of purchasing and ordering and downloading the very high resolution data. So the Creadias users are able to select an area of interest and purchase VHR data from those three operators. We are automatizing that process. So that's the data you can work with. As you can see, it's a much wider variety than what you can commonly get from simple data hubs. So that's one of the advantages of using Creadias for those scientific activities, that you have all the data within. Next advantage is that we offer you ready-to-use tools that will help you and will accelerate the process you're going through. Those applications are the main applications when it comes to interaction with the Creadias platform. For you, probably the most important would be the Creadias Finder, the Earth Observation Finder, the Cloud Dashboard and the Jupyter Notebook. I will focus on the Finder and the Jupyter Notebook, but I would like to mention that the main application that is being used within the platform to manage Cloud Resources is the Cloud Dashboard. But we know that for people with more of a scientific Earth Observation or remote sensing focus background, going into the, let's say, IT Cloud Resources might be a bit challenging. It might be a bit overwhelming and tricky. So we have prepared those graphical applications, such as Finder and the Jupyter Notebook. So you don't have to, initially, at the very first glance, you don't have to set up your own processing environment. You don't have to prepare a data selection algorithm on your own, because within the Creadias we have the Finder. That is an application with graphical interface and the API, so programmatic interface that is designed to help you browse, discover, and download the data and, of course, either data from the long-term archive or data processing from a set of ready-to-go processors that we have prepared for you. So that's the Finder. That's your data access point that allows you to work with the data. The next application I would like to talk about is the Jupyter Notebook. I suppose majority of you is familiar with the concept of notebooks. In case of the Creadias, it is a free of charge prototyping tool in order to access it, you just have to register an account and log into your account. It's a single account for every application within the environment, so you would use the same account for the Earth Observation Finder and the Jupyter Notebook and for the Cloud Dashboard, the application for resource management as well. So it's free of charge. It's accessible to all registered users. It's a ready-to-go, online, interactive processing environment with what is very important to our users, direct access to the whole Earth Observation Data Repository, which is currently holding more than, I think we have read the 20 petabytes of data threshold. So as you can see, it's a simple yet very powerful tool to interact with the data to set up your processing. In the next step, I will show you an example of such processing. So for scientific users, I will come back for a minute to the applications. For scientific users, for those who have expertise within the field of remote sensing and Earth Observation Data Processing, but might not be as well experienced in the cloud and administration fields, we have Creadias Portal, the all-out information and data hub. Then we have the EO Browser, a very simple application for visualization of data. The finder I have described, that's your entry point to interact with the data, to discover the data. You can do it graphically. You can do it using the API. The API is based on the REST API, which is an open search technology. It's quite typical. It's quite easy to use. So it makes interacting with the data quite straightforward. You have also the Cloud dashboard, which is a more advanced tool for setting up processing environments within the cloud itself. The setting up an environment is a means purchasing a product, such as virtual machine or object storage. For free of charge processing, we offer you Jupyter Network, which is a prototyping tool. It's well-versed. It has access to the Earth Observation Data. Additionally, within the Creadias platform, we have a whole set of third-party applications. I would like to mention just one at this moment. We offer you access to the WMS Server Configurator, hosted by us. It's a synergized technology that allows you to generate WMS data on demand within given configuration you have specified. So those are the tools that we offer you. Those are the tools that we feel that make interaction with the data and processing the data easier. So those tools should, we hope, give you more opportunities to perform your research of choice. And now I would like to give you two examples of data processing that has been performed within the Creadias infrastructure. The first example is the urban heat area analysis. It has been performed by scientists from the Warsaw Technical University with cooperation with us. It has been done using solely the Creadias Jupyter Network. It's an analysis of localized heat areas in urban environments. The input data that was required was coming from the Landsat 5, 7 and 8. Additionally, for that research, Plot Boundaries Registry was uploaded as well. And it gives you an example of what can be done with the platform and with the data because this research produces very viable and vital and useful information about the growth and changes of the urban heat islands that can be used in the decision-making process, in the decision-making of entities governing for said, let's say city or set of cities. So that gives you quite good insight what can be done. The other one, the next example is the S2GLC. It's a land cover classification prepared and performed by the Center for Space Research from Warsaw with cooperation with Creadias. It has resulted with a data collection that is a land cover classification for whole Europe based on the Sentinel-2 data from the year 2017. And that's another opportunity for you. The results of that research has been incorporated into the Creadias' Earth Observation Data Repository. It's available in the Earth Observation Finder and the Earth Observation Browser. So the data that has been produced during the research has been integrated into the platform and made the part of the platform. So our cooperation enhanced both researchers' capabilities to perform the research because of the resources and access to the Sentinel-2 data and ours the platform capabilities and to help our users because now everyone has access to that data collection and can build upon it. So I see it as a great example of opportunities that can be pursued in cooperation with our Dias. Now I would like to hand over to my colleague who will talk to you about the funding opportunities so Miho, please do. Thank you Stanislav for the presentation and my name is Miho and I want to tell you something more about this funding opportunities on Creadias because as we understand you as a scientific institution many brilliant ideas that could make use of our infrastructure and our facilities but there is always a problem how to finance your project. So we have identified for you today three main projects related to Earth observation topic and more general cloud computing for your project. One is Agri-Project. Second is Network of Resources provided by ESA so European Space Agency. Third is some internal CloudFaro policy for supporting scientific projects. So let me start from this Agri initiative. It's Open Cloud for Research Environment and the aim of this call is to provide the institutions research environment and education institutions with cloud processing capabilities. Basically the idea is to move the projects that are not currently exploiting much the cloud resources to offer them funding for cloud infrastructure and they are currently two paths they are being organized parallel. So one is Opera Cloud for Research CloudFunding for Research and this is basically for any infrastructure as a service or platform as a service funding related to research topics. And the second one I would like to focus on in this presentation is Opera Funding for Earth Observation Services so it's basically everything that is available on Creodias is strongly related to Earth Observation Services but cloud resources are as well appropriate in this case. Okay, so as I already mentioned this funding is directed to research and education community from Europe so it's 39 countries in this call. The only limitation is that you need to access, you need to be a member of an organization and this is founded in three ways. Why three is for individual researchers second is for research projects and individual institutions and third is for the consortium of institutions and I will tell you later how it depends some calls are for Wave 1 some is for Wave 2 and 3 we'll have a look at this later on. I would like to focus on this Earth Observation Call since the first Earth Observation Call is already open and it's going to be closed on 30th November so less than two weeks from now not much time left but on the other hand this call focuses on Wave 2 and 3 so individual institutes and consortium of institutes and the target of this call is to the projects that are involved in this call need to consume Earth Observation data in some way and now on since the call for project is open you don't need to specify which provider will provide your services you can choose it later on now you need to well define the objective of your project the way it's going to be performed and you need to fill the form in the appropriate way and the provider of the services will be chosen to fulfill your needs so you don't need at this stage to choose the exact provider of let's say data or cloud platform or you don't need to define the exact needs for your project you just need to present what's your idea how you're going to perform this idea and the important from the organizer point of view is that your project needs to create a nice output that can be used by Okri as a showcase that your project is that the project that they're financing is in fact leveraging the science scientific needs the funding tires are between 50,000 it depends on the wave but it's up to 100,000 euro depending on the needs but it's not strict limit so in case you have some brilliant idea that exceed the needs you can also apply they can also they can also take it into account what it's important this funding covers your processing needs or your data needs or application needs but it cannot cover your project's person hours so basically this funding does not allow you to finance entire project it's more like you have the idea or the project that is for instance not in cloud or not using or can leverage from additional data and you want to leverage this project with additional financing for platform services or additional application services if cloud computing for your processing or specialized data including let's say very high resolution data or storage for server for your application at the end of the project or storage for dissemination of your results so there is many possibilities how to receive this funding how to leverage from this call application is available online here I include the project web page and what is important I receive information from the organizers they are able in case you have some idea and you need some support in preparing the project they are able to let's say organize calls directly with you to maybe help you prepare the prepare to the project call of course they won't do it for you so there is still some job to do but from our point of view the application seems quite easy and user friendly I also included here the table from the organizers what is the time frame the first call is already open but the following calls for both IAIS projects infrastructure as a service project will be available in February and in July okay the other funding opportunities I would like to introduce to you is that work of resources organized by ISA so in principle it's dedicated to any user that needs resources for research or research project but it's important that the projects cannot be at this stage cannot be commercial so you cannot finance the project that will generate the exit revenue for you but it can be at the stage it's promising to develop your project at some point to commercial level this is available as well for research institution as for private companies there are some constraints still so for now as far as at this stage these projects need to be supported by ISA so it has to be somehow already supported by ISA such projects can receive sponsoring for up to 12 months and after this period user should be able to find this resources by himself and the systematic processing can only be funded if the data set remains available free of charge later on okay also one additional information that's sponsoring fix allocated processing resources can also be accepted only if it's demonstrated that it needs resources 24-7 so you need to justify the need for cloud-based services and here are some useful links where you can find more information on the project first is ISA site on EO4 Society with information on how to access the data and second one is in the portal of Norpoint Claudio Group which is responsible for managing of this network of resources and distribution of resources and then there you can see all the service providers that are providing the services through the Nor framework and I want also to introduce that next month we are together with Claudio to prepare the webinar on the Nor services so stay tuned and we want to present you more on this topic next month okay and finally how you can how we can be supported by CloudFerro in case you don't have you don't want to or you don't have the project that can be supported via Okri or Nor network of resources and first of all by design we offer 18.5% discount for scientific institutions and this is pretty straightforward to say I have got a scientific project can you apply a discount for us and we usually agree for this discount to scientific projects and the second option is that in case you have idea of some project that could use Earth observation data but you need financing or you need some you are looking for a partner to make a consortium and let's say commercialize the results or you have a project that already has the results but you need support in dissemination you can always contact us and we will think of some kind of on some kind of cooperation that would help you and us to leverage the so for you to disseminate results maybe and maybe leverage your processing capabilities but on the other hand for us to enrich our offering and maybe involve our business opportunities and prepare for other business opportunities also we are very happy to participate in some procurements that are currently being performed so if you need cloud provider to help you in commercial part of some procurement just contact us and we will see if there is possibility to cooperate this is from my site on this commercial ideas okay thank you thank you so much for giving us insight into the funding opportunities that can be leveraged to purchase resources within the creodias now we would like to give the floor to you if you have any questions it's a good time to ask them in the chat we will do our best to answer if you want to know more about either the platform or the capabilities of it or about the funding please ask now we will give you 30 seconds to think about those questions if they are coming up okay we have a question from Miss Agata Hostuo the question I will read it out loud the question is is it possible to apply for Okra funds for the ongoing research project Niko I think this question is for you yes so according to our knowledge yes it's possible the only thing you need to demonstrate is that the cloud resources will leverage your project in a way that otherwise would not be possible but it's the easy answer is yes this is the by design created for the project that already existing but will somehow leverage from cloud resources okay I mean they might be some details that need to be investigated so in case we can discuss it also later on if you need the best would be honestly if you have doubts after looking at the web page of the organizers you can always email them and they will for sure clarify this they are very responsive in terms of time response so this is I think the best idea but my knowledge is that it's possible thank you Mihał there is a next question is Creadias open to any researcher including non-European well the answer is yes Creadias is a platform that is open to anyone and everyone and everywhere and everywhere that's the nature of the digital age but I would like to elaborate on it first of all the data the majority of data that consists of the Earth observation data repository within the Creadias is free and open data within the Copernicus program the license for the data is free and open so it's freely available in any way other than technological restraints that we are that we are coming over so the Creadias platform and the data is free and open to everyone majority of the tools require registration some of the tools are free of charge those I've mentioned today the other tools and resources are charged in different modes funding for them Mihał has described I hope that answers your question we have one more question thanks for presentation of Creadias through the EOFinder you can order only data younger than six months does this data also apply to the Jupiter notebook API well I'm not sure if I understand if I will understand the question correctly but I'll do my best to answer so it depends my understanding of the question is are you able to order the same data through the Jupiter notebook as you would for the Earth observation finder I hope I'm correct I think the first issue is whether the EOFinder you can order data only below six months I got it Mr. Schultz and everyone the accessible data from the Creadias Jupiter notebook are the data sets that are available locally from the Jupiter notebook you can for example perform a query that will order the data using the the EOFinder API so through the notebook using the notebook you ask let's say ask the finder or order the data processing or download from the finder so those tools work in a single environment or somewhat interconnected you can interact with the finder using the Jupiter but normally only the local data are available from the Jupiter notebook level yes but I think it's also worth to clarify that not only data it depends on the collection whether on the time frame the collection is available depends on the collection it's not by default that the data are six months available because for some collection let's say for some Sentinel-1 data or Sentinel-5P so when we have the collection for the entire period bottom line is it depends on the data type and data collection is it available locally and what coverage is available locally majority of the data is available locally so it can be accessed from the Jupiter notebook for example some of the data types especially higher levels of processing are not available locally they are for example available to be ordered or they are being cached so they might be available but it doesn't have to be are there any other questions thank you for attending our webinar thank you for joining us we hope that it was informative and we would like to invite you to the next webinars and we would like to invite you to follow us on our in our social media and check out our website if you would like to know more feel free to contact me and Miho under our email addresses we will gladly follow up any topics and any ideas that may have come up during this session thank you and goodbye