The European Union is planning a new generation of the Sentinel-2 mission in 2030 or soon after. The main request from users is to improve the revisit frequency from 5 days to 2 to 3 days. There are two ways to improve the revisit: According to ESA and Airbus, the second solution is cheaper, and […]
This is the final post of a series of studies we did to find out how far we can extend the field of view of next generation of Sentinel-2 satellites. I hope I did not lose most readers in the length of the previous posts. For the readers who land on this page, which […]
Introduction To perform a correction of directional effect, directional models are required. A large number of directional models have been developed, such as the ones of Roujean [1] or Ross-Li [2], that try to reproduce the directional variations as a function of viewing angles and solar angles, with a rather good accuracy for most types […]
In July 2018, the Pamir Times has reported that a lake formed due to a debris flow in the Ishkoman Valley, Pakistan. This event caused the destruction of dozens of housed in Badswat and Bilhanz villages. The flood debris running down the slope hit the mountain on the opposite side, and formed a barrier, blocking […]
The tropical forest is an important carbon sink which also hosts high biodiversity. Monitoring forest loss is therefore a major issue which requires efficient and accurate tools. In fact, the major challenge is to detect forest loss as precisely and quickly as possible, despite cloud cover which limits the availability of usable optical satellite imagery. […]
Chaos theory, Rössler cake and satellite remote sensing A chaotic attractor was obtained from satellite remote sensing data for the first time in 2011 giving a strong argument for chaos in real environment. This result has a special sound today May 20th 2020, since it is the 80th birthday of Otto E. Rössler — one […]
We are thinking of a new « live » product which would allow anyone to display the most recent snow observations from Sentinel-2 in a web browser. This service would simply display a composite of the latest Theia Snow products over a given time window (e.g. the past 20 days). This can be easily coded thanks to […]
The epidemic of Covid-19 and its bulletins In this post, a brief analysis of the epidemic of Coronavirus Covid-19 that broke out in Wuhan (China) on last December 2019 is sketched. More specifically, this analysis originally focused on the period January 31st to February 27th and was then extended by Bulletins. Bulletins Last Bulletin: Bulletin […]
That’s unfair ! Sentinel-2 is a lucky satellite who still can visit Spain, Italy or Portugal every 5th day, while we are locked at home. Thanks to the hard work and good organisation at ESA (for the Level-1 products) and CNES (for the advanced L2A and L3A products), I have been able to generate mosaics […]