3 more weeks of SPOT5 (Take5) data added to distribution server

In English SPOT5(Take5)

Olivier Hagolle, 15 juillet 2015

=> Three more weeks of data (L1C) have been added to the SPOT5 (Take5) distribution server. The corresponding L2A data should appear very soon, but the dtata transfer takes a long time. The data acquired until the 24th of July are now available here : https://spot-take5.org.

  • The file format for both Level 1C and Level 2A is described here.
  • Some explanations on how the the distribution server works are available here.

We are now starting to see very nice time series, such as this one near Valencia, Spain, where rice is grown and on which we can see the watering of the fields early may, which is done progressively, area per area, and the start of vegetation growth in June. 

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