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[MUSCATE News] Unavailability of CNES HPC center on 4-5 December

Le centre de calcul (de haute performance) du CNES sera en maintenance les 4 et 5 décembre, dans le but d’accroitre sa robustesse et ses performances. En conséquence, MUSCATE ne sera pas en mesure de produire les données de Sentinel-2, Landsat et Venµs en temps réel. Pour une fois, nous ne serons donc pas en […]

27.11.2018

Theia just selected a new production zone for Sentinel-2 L2A in Sahel

=> The Level 2A data production with MAJA processor, by MUSCATE processing center is now fast and efficient. Some margins have been found to add new zones to our production. (The zones already processed are displayed here). French public institutes of labs that would need new zones can tell us their needs, we should still […]

19.11.2018

The Khumbu Icefall by Venµs

This is a time-lapse of all clear-sky images captured by Venµs over the Khumbu Icefall near Mount Everest since November 2017 (one year of data, 51 images at 5 m resolution) . Here I used the Level-1C products (i.e. without atmospheric correction) because the Level-2A products are provided at a lower resolution (10 m). Anyway, […]

09.11.2018

Sentinel-2 Level3A time series (July, August, September 2018)

If you are not afraid to spend too much time while you have urgent things to do, you may have a look to the mosaic of Sentinel-2 monthly syntheses for September over France. You may access to each monthly synthesis using the following links :  Or you may also use the viewer below to compare […]

29.10.2018

Sentinel-HR, a metric resolution optical mission, global, systematic and frequent, free and open data

=> Every four years, CNES brings together its scientific advising committees (and I have never been invited 🙁 )  for its scientific prospective seminar. This seminar is where the scientific priorities for CNES’s next space missions are defined. A few months before, a call for ideas for new missions is issued, and it was the […]

27.10.2018

Snow cover duration from 01 Sep 2017 to 31 Aug 2018 in the Alps and Pyrenees

=> We are thinking to distribute a new product that would provide the snow cover duration in the Alps and the Pyrenees over a hydrological year (snow persistence map). Here is a preview of a « beta » version that is only 100 m resolution for now.   A few words on the method (see also here): this […]

25.10.2018

[MUSCATE News] A very productive summer

=> Updated on October 4th This summer, while most of us were getting sunburnt near the coast, or getting sore legs after hiking in mountains, or having long naps after hectic nights, the lucky MUSCATE teams stayed at work, with a good and efficient air conditioning, convenient armchairs, fast computers and accessed to the best canteen […]

06.10.2018

On-demand SENTINEL2 L2A processing with MAJA on PEPS

Update : we added a script to submit and download MAJA jobs on PEPS Getting a Sentinel-2 L2A product (with atmospheric correction and cloud detection) anywhere has never been so easy.  Until now, you had two options to access to Sentinel-2 L2A products obtained from the MAJA processor : Starting from today, there is another […]

02.10.2018

Sentinel-2 captured the fault line through Palu, Indonesia

On Sep 28 a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Palu, in Sulawesi Indonesia. The quake was followed by a tsunami. The animation below shows two Sentinel-2 images before and after the earthquake in Palu. If you look closely you can see the horizontal displacement due to the fault movement through the city. It […]

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