Pre-processing (geometry, atmosphere, clouds)

A new article on the validation of MAJA’s Sentinel-2 surface reflectances

Whether you are a user of the atmospheric correction processor MAJA or THEIA’s Sentinel-2 Level 2 products, you will probably be interested to read our new article on the validation of MAJA Sentinel-2 surface reflectances. The article is published in open access in Remote Sensing : Colin, J.; Hagolle, O.; Landier, L.; Coustance, S.; Kettig, […]

22.05.2023

Télédétection de l’orientation des cultures

(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 […]

22.03.2023

[VENµS] Full reprocessing of VM1 data available

The full reprocessing of VENµS VM1 data acquired between end 2017 and end 2020 has just been completed, with improvements for the Level 1C and level 2A processing. The data can be downloaded from the Theia website : https://theia.cnes.fr by clicking on VENµS VM1 (The data from VENµS new on-going phase, with a revisit of […]

19.01.2023

Disruptions in the availability of Theia products

=> You may have noticed an interruption in the availability of level 2 and 3 products on the THEIA portal. This is due to ongoing disruptions in the availability of CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) data used by the MAJA atmospheric correction chain. These disruptions are linked to the migration of the ECMWF data centre, […]

26.09.2022

After 6 years of Copernicus data, I have never seen France that yellow

=> What can we say, except that the vegetation situation in France has worsened significantly in July 2022 compared to an already alarming June. The monthly syntheses of Sentinel-2 for the month of July are available since a few days, and the comparison with previous years shows an exceptional drought on the whole territory. Only […]

02.09.2022

In June 2022, drought spreads to all South Western Europe and Maghreb

=> While Italy or Morocco have been alarmed for months, the drought has spread in June to all southwestern Europe (calling Brittany « southwestern » is a bit risky, I admit). The surface reflectance syntheses from Sentinel-2 have been delivered for the month of June a few days ago (I was on holidays), and the comparison with […]

02.08.2022

Dès juin 2022, la sécheresse s’étend à l’échelle continentale

=> Alors que l’Italie ou le Maroc s’alarment depuis des mois, la sécheresse s’est étendue en juin à toute l’Europe du Sud Ouest (qualifier la Bretagne de « Sud Ouest » est un peu osé, je le reconnais). Nous disposons des synthèses de réflectances de surface issues de Sentinel-2 pour le mois de juin depuis quelques jours, […]

« Sen2cor v2.10 cloud masks are now as good as MAJA’s, if not better ». Let’s check !

Colleagues from ESA are reportedly claiming that the cloud masks from the new version v2.10 of Sen2cor are « as good as those of MAJA, if not better ». Well, let’s check. MAJA is the Level2A processor we designed within CESBIO and CNES, to process time series of images such as those of Sentinel-2, LANDSAT, VENµS, TRISHNA, […]

09.07.2022

Recent bugfix of MAJA v4, please consider upgrading to 4.5.4

A bug affecting the AOT estimates and leading to underestimated surface reflectances in some rare cases concerns all MAJA v4.x versions prior to 4.5.4. Users activating the CAMS option shouldn’t have noticed, but if you don’t use CAMS auxiliary data you may face this issue. Therefore, we highly recommend all users to upgrade to the […]

30.05.2022

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