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=> Recently, I agreed to review the following paper, which is now online: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/7/1827 The paper had 3 reviewers. I opted for signed, public review so you can find my review for the first round here. As you can see, I had quite a lot to say about this paper, which to my opinion required […]
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=> The Million ! If you sum up the numbers of products distributed by CNES for THEIA, you can see that our center is now distributing more than one million products (1,000,000!). Readers who follow this blog may remember our initial struggles related to the production, after which we celebrated 10,000 (in April 2017) or […]
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=> Le Million ! Si vous calculez la somme des nombres de produits distribués par le CNES pour THEIA, vous pourrez voir que notre centre distribue maintenant plus d’un million de produits (1 000 000 !). Les lecteurs qui suivent ce blog se souviennent peut-être de nos difficultés initiales, qui nous poussaient à célébrer les […]
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(article publié aussi sur le site du labo-OT au CNES) Pourquoi s’intéresser à l’orientation des cultures agricoles ? Au moins pour deux raisons. L’orientation des cultures par rapport à la pente du terrain contribue de façon importante au risque de ruissellement intense et par voie de conséquence à l’érosion des sols. Par ailleurs, connaitre l’orientation des […]
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Downloading time series from Theia can take a while, depending on the area and the time period covered by the images. Also, it consumes a lot of storage locally, since all the archives in .zip format have to be downloaded (the GeoDataHub will probably distribute Cloud Optimized Geotifs). From my experience, a lot of people […]
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We have had to cancel the production of VENµS L1C and L2A products for one month, because the footprints of VENµS images tend to change more than anticipated. The ground segment recognizes the sites by the coordinates of the corners, and the tolerances were not large enough. This problem has been understood and corrected by […]
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=> Contexte En 2021, le CNES a décidé de mettre en œuvre un hub de services autour de la diffusion des données satellitaires d’Observation de la Terre (OT). Intégré dans un écosystème national et européen, dans le cadre de Data Terra et au service des communautés scientifiques et des projets du CNES, le projet Geo […]
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In Turkey, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), affiliated to the Ministry of Interior, has completed the installation of 300 thousand tents in the provinces affected by the earthquakes. On Feb 16, Pléiades captured such installation on the parking of the New Hatay Stadium near Antakya. I count about 400 tents in this picture. […]
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We received satellite images of Antakya, Turkey acquired by Pléiades 10 days after the earthquake. The comparison with pre-event imagery leaves me speechless. The post-event images were acquired by Pléiades PHR1A thanks to CNES Cellule d’Intervention et d’Expertise Scientifique et Technique nouvelle génération : CIEST² (https://www.poleterresolide.fr/ciest-2-nouvelle-generation-2/). I rectified the raw images using the SRTM digital […]