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5000+ L2A Sentinel-2A products released on Theia server

=> 🙂 🙂 🙂 After having repeated month after month  » sorry, our L2A product production is late again for  this ou that reason » in this blog, on the phone, during meetings, via email or on social networks, you can’t imagine my pleasure to announce that CNES just released large time series of Sentinel-2A L2A data, […]

12.03.2017

MUSCATE : Nouvelles, News… y Noticias

On dirait que mes annonces concernant Muscate ne portent pas chance à ce système. La semaine dernière, alors que j’annonçais une production régulière, les performances d’accès à la baie de disques du nouveau cluster se sont nettement dégradées (nous utilisons encore l’ancien cluster, mais nos données sont sur la baie du nouveau, avec un accès […]

03.03.2017

Nouvelles de MUSCATE / MUSCATE news

Depuis que le nouveau cluster du CNES a été installé, le centre de production MUSCATE a fonctionné de manière régulière, avec un rythme de production de 100 tuiles Sentinel-2 traitées au Niveau 2 par jour. Nous sommes encore loin de la pleine vitesse :, il faudra d’une part encore quelques mises à jours pour que […]

25.02.2017

Lake Oroville in January 2016 vs. 2017

While California has just started to emerge from its worst drought in 1,200 years (2011-2016), it is now being hit by severe rainfalls, causing the evacuation of 188’000 northern California residents under the threat of spillway failure at Oroville Dam.  

13.02.2017

New version of PEPS (French Sentinel mirror site)

As you probably know, PEPS is the French Collaborative ground segment for Copernicus Sentinel program. And, first of all, it is a mirror site that distributes all the Sentinel data in near real time. These last weeks, real time was not available for Sentinel-2, as the data format and structure of Sentinel-2 products had deeply […]

03.02.2017

Festival time with sentinel-2

Burning Man, black rock desert, USA.Area : about 5 km2Official attendance in 2016:: about 70000 people per day during 8 days.1 people each 72 m2Conclusion about my search of the event on Sentinel-playground: EASY! The event is iin the middle of the desert, high contrasts, long preparation time, no cloud, .Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, […]

02.02.2017

Wildfires in Chile in the era of open satellite imagery

Massive wildfires are in raging Central Chile [1]. Many satellite images of the burning areas were posted in social media, and not only by the official communication outlets of the space agencies [2]. One example is this stunning MODIS image, which was tweeted by @anttilip a few hours after its acquisition by Terra.

28.01.2017

Sentinel-2A unveils two new lakes in Borneo

The remote sensing company Planet has published images, which were captured by its fleet of nano-satellites, of Lake Bakun on the island of Borneo [1]. Planet tells us that this artificial lake is the largest lake in Southeast Asia since its flooding in 2011. Yet it is not visible on mapping web services like Bing […]

26.01.2017

Release of Theia Sentinel-2 L2A data over la Réunion

=> Because of the little issues we stumbled upon when producing Sentinel-2 level 2A data over France with MUSCATE, we had not yet demonstrated an end-to-end production, with a distribution on the operational server. While waiting for the end of the production of data over metropolitan France, we did this test the processing of Réunion […]

21.01.2017

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