Context
The WEkEO DIAS is a platform providing Earth observation data for free (you only need to sign-up!). WEkEO offers multiple services open to all users, regardless of their background and knowledge in science, including high-quality training for those who need to incorporate environmental or spatial data into their business, research, or projects and run their own algorithms using the processing capabilities of the WEkEO cloud.
With your free account, you can already:
Access to Copernicus and Sentinel data through the WEkEO Catalogue
Visualize data on the map from the Expert Data Viewer
Begin your journey of Earth Observation data with the Light Data Viewer
Download tutorial notebooks from the Jupyter Catalogue
Download data directly from the Viewer or using the HDA API
Run notebooks and scripts in the WEkEO JupyterHub
Store and share your work via the WEkEO Drive
Moreover, WEkEO offers 3 other plans to benefit even more exciting features.
Without any further ado, let's see what each plan has to offer! 💪
Available plans
Here are some details on the additional plans WEkEO provides and that you can find on this page:
Innovation Lab (Free): this free programme is open to all WEkEO users from Copernicus Member States and Participating Countries. It offers cloud computing resources at no cost for innovative, interdisciplinary projects that benefit the economy, society, or the environment. Selected applicants get access to virtual machines, fast WEkEO data, Sentinel data, and GPUs if needed. Applications are open until spring 2025 and are evaluated based on innovation, relevance, feasibility, and impact.
Virtual Machines (Paid): extends the Essential plan capabilities by procuring additional computing resources on virtual machines in the cloud. This plan opens the doors to virtual processing environments with fast access to WEkEO data, virtual machines with GPU and also enables a direct access to Copernicus Sentinel data. The price of the plan is based on a system "Pay-as-you-use” or fixed term prices. You can check all the advantages of the Virtual Machines plan.
HPC solutions (Paid): breaks compute limitations on individual virtual machines by procuring resources on a High Performance Computing (HPC) platform. This plan gives you access to a total of 98.560 Cores and 120 NVDIA A100 Graphic Cards, a twelve fast 200Gbps Infiniband links for data access with very low latency, high speed access to the EODC storage, including over 10PB of Copernicus data, and direct access to Copernicus Sentinel data.
💡 WEkEO Pro Tip: in order to subscribe to these plans, we invite you to read check how to upgrade your plan.
To learn more about plans, you can refer to the corresponding documentation in the next section. Additionally, you will find the appropriate point of contact for any inquiries or requests for a custom plan.
Documentation and contact
The documentation and point of contact to reach out the User Support depend on the subscribed plan. For any question, users with default free account have to contact the WEkEO User Support, while users of both paid plans have to contact two different user supports.
Here is a table summarizing where to find the matching documentation and point of contact according to your plan:
WEkEO plan | Documentation | Point of contact |
Default (Free) | WEkEO Help Center | WEkEO User Support |
Innovation Lab (Free)* | WEkEO User Support | |
Virtual Machines (Paid) | Cloudferro documentation | |
HPC solutions (Paid) | EODC documentation | Request information button in plan's page |
💡WEkEO Pro Tip: users subscribed to the Virtual Machines (Paid) plan have access to the appropriate user support via the "Tickets" option (more info).
⚠️ * The Innovation Lab (Free) is open to eligible WEkEO users. Apply by spring 2025. Projects are evaluated on innovation, relevance, feasibility, and impact.
Comparison table
Please find below a table showing up all the available features for these plans:
Feature | Default account (Free) | Virtual Machines (Paid) |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
✅ | ✅ | |
Access to User Support | ✅ | ✅ |
✅ | ✅ | |
❌ | ✅ | |
❌ | ✅ | |
Faster access to data via HDA | ❌ | ✅ |
No cost for traffic in and out* | ❌ | ✅ |
Unlimited number of requests | ❌ | ✅ |
Instant access to new uploaded data | ❌ | ✅ |
Faster data processing | ❌ | ✅ |
Full scalability capacity with GPUs** | ❌ | ✅ |
*Under the limit of 100TB/month
**Contact wekeo-sales@thalesaleniaspace.com for custom requests
What's next?
Additional resources can be found in our Help Center. Should you require further assistance or wish to provide feedback, feel free to contact us through a chat session available in the bottom right corner of the page.