In English

Dozens of landslides after the 2018 Hokkaido earthquake

An earthquake with magnitude 6.7 occurred on 06 Sep 2018 in Hokkaido, Japan, killing at least 17 people and leaving nearly 3 million households in Hokkaido without electricity. The quake came two days after typhoon Jebi, « the strongest storm of 25 years« .  Below is an image comparison near Atsuma dam lake in the south of Hokkaido, […]

THEIA

[MUSCATE News] two incidents affecting production and distribution

Update (September 13th) : Both incidents are solved and production is resumed Two incidents happened on MUSCATE production center.- the authentication on the distribution server is not working any more, and as a result, it is not possible to download products.- CNES HPC center has been stopped yesterday, due to a breakdown on the disk storage […]

Composite (3A)

A seamless and cloudless Sentinel-2 image of France in July 2018

=> UPDATE: resolution improved to 20m !  I had to tinker a couple of days with Theia’s Sentinel-2 monthly syntheses, in order to produce the mosaic below. For that, I used: This mosaic best resolution is 20m. It is already requiring 8 GB. We could have provided it at 10m resolution, but it would have […]

Composite (3A)

La France sans nuages et sans coutures, vue par Sentinel-2 et Theia

=>UPDATE: résolution améliorée à 20m !Voilà, après quelques jours de bidouille, j’ai réussi à produire la mosaïque de la France à partir: La mosaïque vous est présentée à 20m de résolution, elle occupe déjà 8GO. Il aurait été possible de la produire à 10m, mais il aurait fallu 32 GO et quelques dizaines d’heures de […]

In English

Sentinel-2 captured a jökulhlaup in Afghanistan

In the Landslide blog Dave Petley has analyzed Planet images of the Pashgor debris flow in Afghanistan (here and here). Here I used two Sentinel-2 images (before and after the event) to show the path of the debris flow from the high mountain area to the Panjshir Valley. Sentinel-2 images have a lower spatial resolution […]

Composite (3A)

Belgium at 10 m resolution in July 2018

Using the new L3A product in Theia it is possible to make nice cloud-free mosaics from Sentinel-2 imagery. Here is an example for Belgium and the script to do it in your terminal. Click here to view and pan in full screen.   # download L3A images over Belgium python theia_download.py -l ‘Belgium’ -d 2018-07-01 […]

Composite (3A)

Les synthèses mensuelles de niveau 3A de Theia pour Sentinel-2

=> Heureusement que les biologistes animaliers ne sont pas censés passer sur ce blog, il pourriaent être choqués par ce qui suit. Bon, expliquons nous !

In English

Whitewhashing the Plastic Sea near Almería

Almería province in Spain is « one of the most recognisable spots on the planet from the lens of a passing satellite. The roofs of tens of thousands of closely packed plastic greenhouses form a blanket of mirrored light beaming into space. » (The Guardian). Greenhouses in Almería are typically made with transparent plastic to increase the […]

CESBIO

Theia’s Sentinel-2 L3A monthly cloud free syntheses

=> Thankfully, animal biologists are not supposed to read this blog, as they might be shocked by what follows : Well, let’s explain !