=> Update : ESA is progressing fast. All lands overflown by Sentinel-2B were available in PEPS on November 12th, thanks to EDRS relay satellites.The Sentinel-2 mission, made of two twin satellites S2A and S2B, has been stated « operational » since beginning of October, even if each satellite was only observing on one orbit out of two […]
=> ESA declared Sentinel-2B operational at the beginning of October, although preliminary data were already available. Since this morning, MUSCATE is producing and distributing Sentinel-2B Level 2A products using the MAJA processor (the L2A products are expressed in surface reflectance after atmospheric correction and are provided with a good quality cloud mask). The current production […]
TIROS-1 weather satellite was launched by NASA on 01 April 1960. It took the first weather satellite picture on 02 April 1960 [1], and also the real first weather satellite picture on 01 April 1960 [2]. On 02 April 1960, it also captured what I believe is the first publicly available satellite picture of the snow […]
You must have seen, in the press or social networks, images like these ones, showing yellow skies ( Loup de Bretagne said « Blade Runner skies »). Such a coloured sky was seen in the west of France, then later in England, and further East in the next days.The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which keeps track of […]
Villarrica volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A colleague of mine (Esteban Alonso) told me that last week he went ski touring up there and when he reached the summit he could see the bubbling lava in the bottom of the crater, and could even feel its heat…
=>Well, the audience of our blog is still steady increasing, there is no need to use explicit titles to get more connexions. And although I mainly use space to look down, I do not think the planet has a natural satellite. So why this title ?The Venµs satellite actually showed us the moon, and not […]
=> Translated from Theia website.The Theia forges just released a new product based on Sentinel-1 and 2 data. Le « High resolution soil moisture » Scientific Expertise Center, driven by Nicolas Baghdadi, from Tetis lab in Montpellier and Mehrez Zribi from CESBIO, distributes Soil Moisture maps from the French Occitania region at 20 m resolution, produced every […]
Our MUSCATE ground segment just passed a new milestone, with 40 000 L2A products processed with MAJA ! Last week was a bit difficult, with a new repetition of the Friday Night Bug (on Saturday morning this time), followed by a « NFS » issue on CNES computing center that blocked production during two days. We are […]
I just came back from Valencia, where I attended the fifth edition of the Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing Symposium. It is one of my favourites, thanks to an amazing team of organizers led by Jose Sobrino. It is a unique symposium, because it has only one session where you can even see opticians […]