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OpenStack API Update postponed

With reference to our recent operational news on the planned OpenStack API Update, we wish to inform our users that, due to the current exceptional circumstances and in order to ensure that every user is in the best situation to handle the change, it has been decided to postpone the end of life of the Keystone version 2.0 API.
What do users have to do?
There is no impact on those users already using Keystone version 3.0 API.
For those users currently using [...]

OpenStack API Update

In order to offer the very latest features of our Public Cloud solution, we will need to update the ONDA OpenStack API used to order a key component: Keystone.
Keystone is the authentication and authorisation API that manages the ONDA Public Cloud infrastructure.
Please note that this only applies to users having direct access to the ONDA OpenStack API for the management of Virtual Resources and storage solutions.
When will the update take place?
On 24 March 2020 (postponed), we will disable version [...]

Planned update on ONDA Cloud Archive

In our constant effort to increase the volume of ONDA datasets stored on our infrastructure, we regularly review user access to data products.
As a result of our analysis, we wish to inform you that, in addition to the datasets currently stored on the ONDA Cloud Archive (Sentinel-1 / -2 / -3 products older than 3 months, except for Sentinel-1 SLC data), starting from 20 February 2020 we will be moving a subset of the Sentinel-1 SLC products into the Cloud [...]

Improved access to ONDA Help resources

All the ONDA Help resources – including our User Guides as well as our step-by-step Tutorials – have now been integrated in our web portal as online documents.
This means that not only can our users now benefit from an easier navigation through the various documents, but they are also able to search for specific terms and jump immediately to the relevant guide sections.

Go to User Guides

Update on the ONDA Cloud Archive

Further to our recent news regarding the move of some ONDA public datasets to the ONDA Cloud Archive, please be informed that the move is currently ongoing.
The affected datasets are:

Sentinel-1 (except for SLC)
Sentinel-2
Sentinel-3

The archiving period for each dataset is published and updated on the relevant Data pages.
For any further clarification, please Contact Us.
Read more:

ONDA Cloud Archive
Catalogue – Tutorial
Catalogue Open Data Protocol (OData API) – User Guide

New Remote Desktop interface

An easy-to-use Remote Desktop graphical interface is now available for users of the ONDA Virtual Servers.
The customised template also includes a variety of pre-installed open-source software tools, e.g. SNAP, QGIS, R, etc. You can find the full list on our Tools page.
In order to use our new template:

Choose a Virtual Server with a minimum storage of 200 GB (view our Virtual Servers available solutions)
Select Remote Desktop from the list of our Customised ONDA templates
Follow the “Remote Desktop template - [...]

New release of the ONDA Catalogue, now supporting semantic searches

We have released a new version of the Catalogue, which also supports Semantic Searches: users are now able to perform complex geographical searches from the Catalogue Advanced Search form.
Search the Catalogue: example

Click on the Advanced Search icon
Enter your text query under the newly added Place field – e.g. glaciers in Italy
Select the mission – e.g Sentinel-2 – and any other applicable search criteria
Click the Search button
Visualise the results on the Catalogue map

About the ONDA Catalogue
From the Catalogue, you can [...]

Advanced API: additional access point to products in original format now available

The ONDA Advanced API allows access to low level components of the product through ENS (Elastic Node Server) without the need for a full product download. The service is available free of charge to users who order a Virtual Server.
The standard access is to products in a custom ENS format.
However, an additional access point is now available for users to access products in their native format as well.

More on Advanced API
Advanced API – User Guide