4MOST

CamCEAD (formerly the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit, CASU) leads the core 4MOST Data Management System (DMS) and hosts the 4MOST Data Processing Centre (4DPC) at Cambridge, pe…

Gaia

CamCEAD runs data reduction pipelines for ESA's Gaia mission within the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC), and hosts long-term operational archives and large-scal…

GaiaNIR

CamCEAD Cambridge leads UK involvement in GaiaNIR, ESA's Voyage 2050 candidate mission and near-infrared successor to Gaia.

HWO

Habitable Worlds Observatory UK Space Agency funded instrument design studies

MOONS

The CAMCEAD group at the University of Cambridge develops and operates the computational infrastructure supporting the MOONS Guaranteed Time Observations surveys at the VLT. We coo…

PLATO

CamCEAD at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy supports PLATO WP36 and EAS data-flow operations, coordinating infrastructure, backend services, pipelines, databases,…

WEAVE

WEAVE is the wide-field multi-object spectrograph on the 4.2-metre William Herschel Telescope on La Palma. CAMCEAD runs the complete WEAVE data flow, from survey preparation throug…

WST

WST (Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope) is a proposed telescope that would take spectra of far more objects at once than any current facility. CamCEAD is contributing to the desig…

SPACE

SPACE (Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence) is a £5.25 million Cancer Research UK initiative, started in 2024, that makes the spatial biology technologies develop…

IMAXT (Imaging and Molecular Annotation of Xenografts and Tumours) is an international project funded by Cancer Research UK that uses spatial-omics methods, including virtual reali…

The INT Wide Field Survey (WFS) was a major multicolour imaging survey using the Wide Field Camera on the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope, initiated in August 1998. It obtained data o…

IPHAS (INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane) maps the northern Galactic Plane in Hα, r′ and i′ filters using the Wide Field Camera on the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Tel…

VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a 4-m class wide-field survey telescope equipped with a 16-detector VIRGO infrared camera, located at ESO's Cerro Par…

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6-m ESO telescope at Cerro Paranal equipped with OmegaCAM, a 268-megapixel camera covering a 1°×1° field of view. CASU contributed to data pro…

WFCAM (Wide Field Camera) is a wide-field infrared camera on the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and one of the most capable infrared survey instruments in the …

CASPER

CASPER is an assistant platform developed by CamCEAD for astronomical survey teams. It answers technical questions from curated project documents, shows where each answer comes fro…

Cyto Studio

Cyto Studio is a Napari-based viewer for exploring large 2D and 3D multiplexed image datasets, with an interactive interface for loading image channels and inspecting data without …

Opal Studio

Opal Studio is a cross-platform viewer and analysis application for highly multiplexed imaging data, including IMC, bringing together channel preprocessing, cell segmentation, AI-b…

CAMCEADHUB

CAMCEADHUB is CamCEAD's IRIS-hosted cloud analysis platform for CASU, providing on-demand compute resources, storage and interactive environments for large-scale scientific data pr…

Darkroom

Darkroom is CamCEAD's cloud-based analysis platform, providing on-demand compute resources, storage and interactive environments for large-scale scientific data processing.