Update January 31st, 10h00 : Distribution was just restarted, a few hundreds of images will be added today, and meanwhile, data are processed in Near Real Time.This January was a nightmare for MUSCATE. Following database issues to send data to the distribution server, our production system was stopped during the Christmas break and unstable the […]
You probably remember Simon Gascoin’s story about the Aru glacier avalanches, which started from Simon’s observations of the twin avalanches using the Sentinels. It was one of the big buzz pages of the blog in 2016. The first images were published here, then spread out in many scientific websites and the social networks. It seems […]
Sorry for those of you waiting for our real time products, MUSCATE production is stalled these days. The teams are working hard to put it back in production.Update: it seems that the issues happened when sending products to the distribution server. A data base request became infinitely long, and the system waited for it. […]
Land cover map validation is a complex task. If you read French, you can check this post by Vincent Thierion which shows how the 2016 LC map of France produced by CESBIO stands with respect to data sources independent from those used for its production. But this is only one aspect of the validation. A […]
As you have probably noticed, our production rate has been very low these days and we are more than 10 days late in our delivery of L2A and snow cover products.This seems to be due to an intervention on CNES cluster end of December to add new nodes and disk space. MUSCATE sometimes loses communication […]
The Sentinel-2 mission status document, edited by ESA, is a very interesting reading. On its last edition of 2017, ESA announced very discretely that the spectral bands of Sentinel-2 had been revised, following a review of the pre-flight measurements. Very few details are provided on the nature of the error contained in the previous version, […]
Hereafter some news on the status of the Venµs mission.Venµs was successfully launched from the Kourou space port on August 1st by a VEGA launcher: https://vega.cnes.fr/en/live-vega-launch-venus-august-first-2017 First images were acquired by mid-August (see below for examples). The commissioning phase is still running. This phase consists in checking the whole system, including the satellite, the camera, the download […]
=> A sixth year begins for the « Séries temporelles » blog, and as usual, it is an opportunity to review its audience, and to get a little self-satisfaction.The blog is always receiving more visits. even if the annual growth rate is much lower than the previous years, but still 20%… French visitors constitute only 35% of […]
For Christmas Sentinel-2 offered us this nice picture of the Bezymianny volcano ash trail. Bezymianny is located in the central part of the Klyuchevskaya cluster of volcanoes in the Kamachatka peninsula. The image was acquired on Christmas eve but the ash plume was observed on 20 December.