It’s not easy to find a good cartographic representation of the global irrigated land, therefore I made my own map using data from Meier et al. (2018). The raw resolution of the above product is 30 arcsec, i.e. 1 pixel covers about 1 km by 1 km at equator. Here, I aim to represent the […]
Le lidar est magique ! Cette technologie permet de mesurer très précisément l’altitude du sol y compris sous la végétation. Voici un exemple qui montre des sentiers cachés dans une forêt du Jura : L’image en teintes de gris est un « hillshade » c’est-à-dire un ombrage du relief. Ce relief est issu du RGE ALTI […]
People often ask if we can detect artificial snow in satellite images. It’s not so easy except when the surrounding slopes are totally snow-free… But recently, I noticed some anomalous snow accumulations patterns in a satellite-derived map of the snow depth near Super Barèges ski resort (Pyrenees). This map was computed at 2 m resolution […]
(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 […]
International news media reported that the Joshimath city in north India (Uttarakhand) was « sinking » due to a slow landslide. In January, many houses had developed major cracks on the walls and 145 families were temporarily moved. The Indian space agency published a map of the ground deformation obtained by SAR interferometry using Sentinel-1 data. Although […]
In early January 2023 the snow cover area in the Alps was lower than the 30 years minimum. The snow cover area in January 2023 was lower than the snow cover area last year at the same period. This caused the publication of a lot of depressing ski resorts photographs. But the ongoing snowfalls in […]
iota2 is the large scale mapping software developed at CESBIO. iota2 takes high resolution satellite image time series (SITS), usually Sentinel (1 and 2) or Landsat, and produces maps over large areas. Maps of most usual variables of interest in remote sensing can be produced, since iota2 can compute user-defined functions at the pixel level, […]
B-22A is the largest iceberg in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica (50 times Manhattan land area). It broke off from Thwaites Glacier’s tongue and remained grounded for 20 years.. But now it’s on the go, as shown by this animation I made from Sentinel-1 SAR images (about 1 per month since June 2015, total 75 frames): […]
J’étais hier dans la maison du parc naturel régional des Pyrénées Catalanes pour discuter des possibilités offertes par la télédétection pour suivre le manteau neigeux. Les participants à la réunion représentaient bien les différents usages de l’eau dans ce territoire (milieux naturels, agriculture, eau municipale, hydro-électricité, domaines skiables). Tous ont exprimé le besoin de mieux […]