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 orchestrates world-class data reduction pipelines for the ESA Gaia mission, hosting long-term operational archives and highly scalable analytical frameworks within the Gaia…

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 at the 4.2-metre William Herschel Telescope on La Palma. CAMCEAD operates the full data pipeline and orchestration infrastructure …

WST

WST (Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope) is a proposed next-generation facility that will take multiplexed spectroscopy to an entirely new scale; CamCEAD contributes to its data sy…

SPACE

SPACE (Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence) is a £5.25 million Cancer Research UK initiative launched in 2024 that democratises access to cutting-edge spatial bio…

IMAXT (Imaging and Molecular Annotation of Xenografts and Tumours) is a Cancer Research UK-funded international initiative that applies cutting-edge spatial-omics technologies — in…

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 an infrared wide-field camera for the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii — the most capable IR imaging survey instrument in the Norther…

CASPER

CASPER is a CamCEAD R&D project developing an AI-powered assistant for astronomical survey operations, data processing, and scientific analysis, built on open-source large language…

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.