Combien de temps met le fût du canon à se refroidir ? Fernand Raynaud => Cette citation vient du fameux sketch de Fernand Raynaud, elle est soi-disant tirée d’un manuel militaire à destination des soldats: Le sketch est un peu long, je vous rappelle la réponse : un certain temps. Nous avons étudié une question […]
How long does it take for the cannon barrel to cool down after firing a shell ? Fernand Raynaud => This quote is from a famous old French funny sketch by Fernand Raynaud, which was based on a question in a French manual for soldiers: the sketch is rather long, so I’ll give you the […]
This blog post is not a review of the excellent and deeply philosophical, parallel-universes delirium movie by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, but the title of this drama resonates with the capabilities of our latest algorithm, which has just been published in Remote Sensing of Environment: J. Michel and J. Inglada, « Temporal attention multi-resolution fusion […]
=> In the frame of the preparation of the Trishna mission, one important question is : do we have to correct for directional effects, and how should we do it ? Some of you may be familiar with the so-called hotspot effect in the reflective domain, which is well illustrated on our blog. Well in […]
I found the leak from Nord Stream 2 in the latest Sentinel-1 image (29 Sep 2022). It’s large enough to be visible from space. From this radar image, I could also spot the leak in the Landsat image captured on the same day (29 Sep). And there’s another leak visible northeast of Bornholm Island, this […]
Viedma Glacier is an iconic glacier of the Southern Patagonia icefield. Landsat 5, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 images series show that its terminus has retreated by 3 km since 1985. Looking closer one can notice a new proglacial lake forming in a recently deglaciated area. Since I won 80 sq km of Airbus Pléiades data, […]
=> Do we need to remind you of all the collateral damage linked to deforestation or the eco-system services that forests provide ? We have already talked about these in this blog (here and there too). Yet forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Between 1990 and 2020, an area of forest equal to more […]
« Give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able to spell it. » Jimmy McGill I haven’t seen the « Breaking Bad » series but I’m a huge fan of « Better Call Saul ». Both series take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With its dry, sunny weather, Albuquerque is the perfect place for a modern-day Western. Vince Gilligan, the […]