In English

MAJA 4.5 is now available and compliant with the new Sentinel-2 L1C format

=> UPDATE (Feb 14th 21): the version 4.5.3 is now released and fixes a few minor issues found while testing the first time series of the new L1C format, please upgrade to Maja 4.5.3 ! Following the announcement by ESA of a major product format upgrade for Sentinel-2 by early January 2022, the development team […]

En Français

Les Pyrénées ont fait le dry January

La surface enneigée n’a jamais été aussi basse un 6 février depuis 2001. Elle était de 6 100 kilomètres carrés, alors que la moyenne à cette date est 13 900 kilomètres carrés. Cette situation résulte d’une longue période sèche et ensoleillée qui a commencé le 10 janvier avec l’installation d’une situation anticyclonique.     La […]

CESBIO

TropiSCO scores against deforestation

=> The TropiSCO project aims at providing maps of tree cover loss in dense tropical forests using Sentinel-1 satellite images, starting in 2018 and in near real time. The maps will soon be publicly available via a webGIS platform and updated weekly at 10m resolution. Forest loss as small as 0.1 hectare will be detected […]

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TropiSCO secoue la déforestation

=> L’objectif du projet TropiSCO est de fournir des cartes de suivi des pertes de couverture forestière dans les forêts denses tropicales avec les images des satellites Sentinel-1, à partir de 2018 et en continu. Les cartes seront bientôt accessibles publiquement via une plateforme webGIS et mises à jour toutes les semaines, à 10m de […]

Composite (3A)

Neige et crues dans les Pyrénées entre novembre 2021 et janvier 2022

Le manteau neigeux s’est constitué rapidement dans les Pyrénées suite à plusieurs chutes de neige abondantes entre le 23 novembre et le 10 décembre. Après ce début de saison tonitruant, la surface enneigée a rapidement décliné pour atteindre une valeur plutôt basse au début de l’année 2022. Cette fonte rapide est la conséquence des températures […]

In English

Sentinel-1b is currently out of work

New Update : 1.5 month after, ESA has not yet been able to resume operations with Sentinel-1. The work is now concentrating on understanding the cause of the breakdown, to determine if some modifications are necessary before launching Sentinel1C, not before the end of 2022. Update : 1 week after, attemps to resume exploitation of […]

3D

CO3D: CNES Very High Resolution mission dedicated to 3D, to produce a global DSM by 2027

  Do you know the CNES/AIRBUS CO3D mission ? As our Sentinel-HR mission could be made of satellites derived from those of the CO3D mission, it is a good opportunity to advertise this nice mission here. I took all the information from a presentation and a paper [1] written by Laurent Lebègue and the CO3D […]

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Multitemp blog statistics in 2021

As every year, I have gathered the statistics of the multitemp blog in 2021. It seems that we have more or less stopped the decrease of its audience, with a higher number of visits than last year, even if the number of pages viewed is still decreasing a bit. The two main authors of the […]

In English

Happy 2022 !

=> As shown by the image above, warmth can be found in winter, and beauty often comes out of the fog. And in matter of fog, this beginning of 2022 seems to be a great millesim. I took this picture at sunset on the 31st of december, in Hendaye, right in the South West corner […]