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Theia’s Sentinel-2 L2A counter passed the 15 000 threshold on the 26th of May. The joined image shows the zones which are available so far. Recently, two more sites have been added to THEIA’s list of processed sites :
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=> The Sentinel-2B satellite was launched in March 2017, and joined his twin brother Sentinel-2A, which was orbiting since June 2015. Both satellites are now succeeding each other above our heads every 5 days. Sentinel-2 system mission is to monitor the evolution of the landscape and especially vegetation, with an observation every fifth day. Very quickly, ESA managed […]
En Français
Here are the sites that will be observed by the long awaited French-Israeli satellite Venµs. Venµs will be launched this summer, and three months after launch, all the sites will be observed each second day from a constant viewing angle with 10m resolution and 12 spectral bands. Combined with Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8, a daily […]
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In this post « Landslides in Kyrgyzstan captured by Sentinel-2 » I showed two landslides that I identified as the Kurbu and Ayu landslides, both featured in the AGU landslide blog. However, as pointed out by Isakbek Torgoev, the Kurbu-Tash landslide is located about 5 km farther south than the one I found on the Sentinel-2 image […]
En Français
=> Le 16 février 2017 l’astronaute français Thomas Pesquet a pris cette photo depuis la station spatiale internationale:
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=> On Feb 16 2017, French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet shot this photo from the International Space Station.
CESBIO
Le satellite Venµs va être lancé cet été, si, si, vraiment ! Cette mission Franco-Israélienne observera tous les deux jours une centaine de sites pendant 30 mois, pour une résolution de 10m dans 12 bandes spectrales. En combinant ses données avec celles de Sentinel-2, nous pourrons même nous approcher d’une observation quotidienne, avec, entre autres, la […]
Sentinel-2
The giant Kurbu-Tash landslide in Kyrgyzstan occurred on 23-24 April 2017 and was highlighted by Dave Petley in the landslide blog of the American Geophysical Union.
In English
OTB version 6_0 is out ! It includes many improvements (including an unsupervised machine learning framework), and adopts a new, more permissive licence : Apache v2.0My colleagues in charge of the Orfeo Toolbox Development (OTB) are organizing the annual user meeting in Toulouse town center : June 7-9 2017. Here is the program : If interested, […]