In English

MAJA/THEIA workshop Program

We have just updated the MAJA/THEIA workshop website to add a draft program. The workshop will be held in Toulouse, from 13th to 14th of June, and will be hosted by the ENSEEIHT engineering school in Toulouse historical center. Registrations are still open, until the third of June.   The aim of this workshop is to collect […]

Composite (3A)

Visualizing the vegetation dynamics in Africa

The Global Imagery Browse Services is an API provided by the NASA to access its vast collection of Earth Observation products. It’s convenient to use the Worldview online data browser to get the right URL template. Just click on « Take a snapshot » and copy the URL. For example the following URL allows you to download […]

Applications

Are Sentinel-2 water vapour products useful ?

=> Sentinel-2B has two channels centered on water vapour absorption bands: channel 9 (940 nm) and channel 10 (1380 nm). Band 10 corresponds to a very strong absorption, strong enough to prevent any photon to reach ground from the Sun without being absorbed in the atmosphere. This band is intensively used to detect and correct […]

Applications

Des applications pour la vapeur d’eau observée par Sentinel2 ?

=> Sentinel-2B dispose de deux canaux centrés sur des bandes d’absorption de la vapeur d’eau: la bande 9 (940nm) et la bande 10 (1380 nm). La bande 10 correspond à une très forte absorption, telle qu’en général, dans cette bande, les photons n’ont aucune chance d’atteindre le sol, et encore moins le satellite après réflexion […]

Applications

Machine learning for land cover map production – Follow-up on the TiSeLaC challenge

I discussed some important aspects to take into account when validating land cover maps in a previous post. In that same post I insisted on the fact that machine learning pipeline building using a blind optimisation of accuracy metrics can lead to unrealistic expectations about land cover maps produced using these approaches. I cited as an […]

In English

MAJA V3.1 will be distributed this May

We will start distributing MAJA V3.1 this May to replace MAJA V1 on CNES free software platform. It is also in the pipeline of enhancements of Theia processing platform (MUSCATE), but this pipeline is quite full, so we will need to be patient (which requires a big effort for me, patience not being my best quality…) MAJA […]

En Français

Enneigement en amont du lac de Serre-Ponçon

Si vous avez vu le JT du 26 mars dernier, vous savez que le lac de Serre-Ponçon est à un niveau exceptionnellement bas en ce moment [1].

In English

ESA is making plans for a global Sentinel2 reprocessing in 2019 to enhance multi-temporal registration

A good piece of news, directly from ESA’s S2 project manager: ESA is now making plans for a global reprocessing of Sentinel-2 archive in 2019. As explained here, Sentinel-2 data multi-temporal registration isn’t perfect yet. It should be improved in the first quarter of 2019, thanks to the use of ground control points obtained via […]

Sentinel-2

The odds to find snow in St. Moritz

Did you know that the St. Moritz Casino is the highest in Switzerland? If you like gambling, I have a little game for you: what are the odds to find snow near St. Moritz? Fortunately, I just finished the processing of 218 Sentinel-2 dates from 2015-Dec-04 to 2018-Apr-10 of tile 32TNS with our let-it-snow processor. […]