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ONDA 2.0: updates on services and data offer

Further to our previous communications regarding the ONDA service evolution (as detailed in Update on ONDA data offer and Announcing the first steps towards ONDA 2.0), we would like to inform our users about the following changes that will take effect from 16 October 2023:

Discontinuation of the Sentinel Planned Acquisition View tool: starting from the aforementioned date, the Sentinel Planned Acquisition View tool for the visualisation of tracks and planned acquisitions for Sentinel-1 will no longer be available.
Modification of [...]

10 October 2023Read more...

Update on Sentinel-2 Level 2A products availability

With reference to our recent Update on ONDA data offer, we wish to notify our users that, as from September 2023, Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B Level 2A products belonging to old processing baselines (< 05.00) will gradually be no longer accessible through the ONDA Catalogue.

For further information, please Contact Us.

25 September 2023Read more...

Announcing the first steps towards ONDA 2.0

We wish to inform our users that ONDA will be soon implementing a few initial measures paving the way for the evolution of ONDA to ONDA 2.0.
In line with our commitment to play a key role in supporting the new space economy, and as part of the already announced service evolution, the forthcoming changes will represent a new way ahead in our platform's capabilities.   
As part of the transition to ONDA 2.0, we will be discontinuing the Advanced API and View services, effective from the end of July.

While [...]

29 June 2023Read more...

Update on ONDA data offer

We wish to inform our users that, starting from July 2023, the ONDA Data Access service will undergo a progressive evolution. 
In particular, the ONDA data offer will be gradually modified as follows: 

As from July 2023, online data availability will be gradually reduced from 180 to 30 days. All data with creation date older than 30 days will be stored on the ONDA Cloud Archive.

As from July 2023, Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B RAW historic data will no longer be available.

Sentinel-1A RAW fresh data publication will be provided with a rolling period of 3 days.

As from [...]

29 June 2023Read more...

OVHcloud and Serco for the 5th CASSINI Hackathon

We are happy to share that our Cloud provider OVHCloud and Serco have announced the winners of the 5th CASSINI Hackathon, whose Italian edition took place in Bari on 24-26 March.  
In the context of this event, promoted by the European Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA) and organized in Italy by Planetek Italia and Sprint Lab, ONDA allowed participants to access Copernicus products. 
The 2 teams who won the technology marathon in Italy, FireWatch and SAR4SAR, developed projects dedicated respectively [...]

31 March 2023Read more...

Sentinel-2 Collection-1 publication

As part of the Sentinel-2 reprocessing campaign, since 24 January 2023 ONDA has started the publication of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 Collection-1 (Level-1C and Level-2A products), which is being created over the Sentinel-2 historical archive.
All historical data from 2015 (launch of Sentinel-2A) until December 2021 are planned to be reprocessed, starting from December 2021 products, then continuing in reverse chronological order of sensing time.
The reprocessing activity provides a series of improvements, including consistent Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B time series with a uniform processing baseline and [...]

25 January 2023Read more...

ONDA Cloud Resources price adjustments

We wish to inform our users that, as from 1 December 2022, a price increase of approximately 10% is applied to the ONDA Cloud Resources, affecting both new and existing services. 
This increase reflects the price changes applied by our cloud provider, OVHcloud: please read here for more information. 
We would like to assure our users that this adjustment does not change the ONDA objectives to foster Earth Observation data access by providing access to state-of-the-art resources and technologies and to bring innovation.  

01 December 2022Read more...

ONDA at 17th Plinius Conference

ONDA, through Serco Italia, is the main sponsor of the 17th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks, organized in the framework of the EGU (European Geosciences Union) events, and taking place near Frascati, Italy, on 18–21 October 2022. 
The event represents an interdisciplinary meeting for debating the current state of knowledge of Mediterranean risks in the context of climate change. The discussion will be focusing on prediction, diagnosis, monitoring, assessment and definition of weather extremes and hydro-geological effects, impacts on sectors such as [...]

19 October 2022Read more...

AI Monitoring system for CAP based on ONDA at 26th MARS Conference

Serco will be participating in the 26th MARS Conference in Barcelona on 12-14 September with a presentation on the “AI Monitoring digital system for the new CAP legislation”.
In the context of the new “Real-time agricultural area monitoring system" regulation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – which calls for a more continuous monitoring of agricultural activities by using the Sentinel images provided by the Copernicus program –, Serco shares the experience of the services provided for the French public authority Service and [...]

12 September 2022Read more...

ONDA 4 Education training event

In the frame of ONDA 4 Education – our service for users interested in learning how to process Copernicus Sentinel data using the ONDA infrastructure –, a training event was organized in collaboration with the DotSPACE foundation on 14-16 June 2022.
In preparation for the workshop, a few weeks before participants were invited to attend the Introduction to ONDA webinar. Then on the first day of the event, we provided a demo on how to use our platform, followed by a [...]

01 July 2022Read more...