DINAMIS: simpler access to spatial images

Institutional news 4 September 2020
Since this summer, the DINAMIS portal, a national institutional satellite image sharing platform, has made it easier for a range of users to access very high spatial resolution images. Making data from satellite systems easier to use will enable their application for research, land use and territorial planning, environmental monitoring and management, innovation purposes or to create added value (in the fields of earth, environmental, agricultural and social sciences). Development of the platform was led by six founding organizations: CNES, CNRS, IGN, INRAE, IRD and CIRAD.
SPOT image (July 2019) of the Piton de la Fournaise, a volcano on Réunion Island, available on the DINAMIS portal © ADS GeoIntelligence

SPOT image (July 2019) of the Piton de la Fournaise, a volcano on Réunion Island, available on the DINAMIS portal © ADS GeoIntelligence

DINAMIS is primarily intended for French public players, both scientific and non-scientific, overseas scientific partners, and private players involved in research and development (R&D) or in the provision of innovative services. DINAMIS follows on from previous platforms ( ISIS, GEOSUD, Pléiades public service concession, etc), and has harmonized and pooled their resources (archives, means of receipt, IT infrastructures, organization) to provide satellite data users with a long-term service.

DINAMIS now offers free access to two types of space-based Earth observation data:

  • Pléiades and Spot 6-7 commercial optical images (subject to quotas);
  • A package of non-commercial images with different resolutions: Sentinel-2, Spot 1-5 archive images from the Spot World Heritage programme.

DINAMIS is a transverse service provided by the Data Terra research infrastructure and its Theia (continental surfaces), ODATIS (ocean), ForM@Ter (solid Earth) and AERIS (atmosphere) data hubs. It organizes resource sharing to ensure a supply of data, their dissemination, and user support for institutional use by the scientific community and public players on a national level (State services and agencies, territorial authorities), with the support of experts from the hubs. DINAMIS thus contributes to the development of new products and services based on Earth observations, in support of public environmental and territorial policy.

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