snow-ice

Enneigement sur les sentiers des Alpes de Haute-Provence

Le conseil départemental des Alpes de Haute-Provence a mis en ligne le tracé des 6 500 km de sentiers aménagés et balisés sur l’ensemble de son territoire. Ces sentiers sont visibles sur le joli site www.rando-alpes-haute-provence.fr qui fonctionne avec le logiciel Geotrek. 

25.07.2018

Snow conditions in southern Africa ski resorts

When I present the potential of Sentinel-2 for snow science, I often tell that the spatial resolution of Sentinel-2 is sufficient to detect snow at the scale of the ski runs. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, here is the Sentinel-2 view of the only two ski resorts in southern Africa on July […]

18.07.2018

Over 10’000 snow products in Theia

To celebrate the 10’000th snow product in Theia, here is the latest snow map over the Vicdessos area in the french Pyrenees near Andorra. The snow is in blue and the clouds are in white! Pan and explore the map below.. See full screen Big up to the Muscate team!

09.07.2018

Three snow seasons in the Pyrenees through the eyes of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8

On June 23 we will celebrate the third anniversary of Sentinel-2A in orbit. With three years of data we can start looking at the inter-annual variability of biophysical variables, like.. (random example), the snow cover. This is what I attempted to do for the Theia workshop. I downloaded all available snow cover products from Theia over […]

14.06.2018

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].

10.05.2018

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. […]

02.05.2018

Venµs captured the orange snow in the Pyrenees

Theia just published the first Venµs images today, including a beautiful view of the Pyrenees. Once you have dezipped/untared/unzipped the files you can make a true color composite using the command:gdal_translate -b 7 -b 4 -b 3 -scale 0 300 0 255 -ot byte VE_VM01_VSC_PDTIMG_L1VALD_ES_LTERA_20180419.DBL.TIF myColorCompo.tifI tend to focus on the snow so I stretched […]

20.04.2018

Enneigement au 1er avril 2018 dans les Pyrénées

Le 1er avril est le moment privilégié par les hydrologues pour caractériser le potentiel hydrologique du manteau neigeux. Dans le cadre de l’OPCC [1] nous avons compilé différents indicateurs [2] :

14.04.2018

Dust on snow in the Armenian Highlands

The ESA website featured this Sentinel-2 image of a large and thick plume of dust off Libya (click here to view in the Sentinel-Hub)

27.03.2018

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