Last week, Simon Gascoin and I spent quite some time working on the Marmolada event. Just a week-end to rest and Twitter reminded us Monday morning that this summer 2022 was special for glaciers. Not only are they out of balance with the climate and will probably suffer one of their most negative mass balance […]
The deadly Marmolada glacier collapse happened on 3 July 2022. On 6 July 2022, Pléiades 1B (CNES, Airbus DS) acquired a clear-sky stereo pair of the area. From these images we could estimate a detached volume of ice of 65’000 ± 10’000 cubic meters. First, we generated a digital elevation model (DEM) from Pléiades stereo […]
=> In our a priori definition of Sentinel-HR mission, we had included an option to observe the 3D topography at a high resolution, with a moderate accuracy ambition (lower than that offered by the CO3D satellite, as shown in the table below), but globally and with a systematic revisit. But our mission advisory group insisted, […]
=> Dans notre définition initiale de la mission Sentinel-HR, nous avions inclus une option permettant d’observer le relief à haute résolution, avec un objectif de précision modéré (inférieur à celui offert par CO3D, comme le montre le tableau ci-dessous), mais avec une revisite systématique et sur le monde entier. Devant l’intérêt des membres de notre […]
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 […]