Dave Petley wrote a nice article in the AGU’s Landslide blog about a massive landslide in Glacier Bay, Alaska. This huge avalanche of debris was spotted by a local pilot Paul Swanstrom on June 28. When Paul was above it, « dust was still flying ». Later, based on earthquake records in Alaska, the experts figured out […]
=> Over the last months, we worked a lot on our method for Land Cover map production. Three main topics (1) were studied with Arthur Vincent and David Morin at CESBIO : porting and validating the iota2 processor on the CNES High Performance Computing facilities (HPC); enhancing the method for reference data preparation. Reference data […]
=> Sample products The validation of the operational MUSCATE ground segment, within the THEIA Land Data Center is going on, and we are starting to deliver a few sample products so that you may start to prepare your softwares to use them. The sample products were acquired by Sentinel-2 over Provence and the Alps, during the […]
=> The Sen2Agri System, funded by ESA, is now on its pre-operational phase. It has just completed its first mass production and in this context, we just obtained our first Level 3A syntheses obtained with Sentinel-2A. Level 3A products are monthly syntheses of non cloudy pixels. Syntheses The monthly syntheses are produced by the Sen2Agri system. They use […]
The SPOT(Take5) project had a one day session at the living planet symposium ! If it looked nice when we decided it, it turned out that it was not a true good idea. Most of the LPS 2016 sessions were thematic sessions (forest, agriculture, coasts, inland waters…), while the SPOT (Take5) sessions were jumping from […]
=> A few colleagues replied to our campaign to explain some of the dangers of Google Earth Engine. They said : As most (…) of these colleagues are quite sensible, I am not worrying too much. But as far as I am concerned, I would have some chances to be a victim of Mrs-Armitage-on-wheels Syndrom […]
Exceptional rainfall in May caused heavy flooding in the Paris region. Newspapers and TVs reported that the Seine flood forced the Louvre staff to move away from rising waters the art pieces that were stored in their cellar. But they did not tell you that about 50 km east of the Louvre museum, the flood […]
Don’t worry, I have not been converted to a football fan, it is still giving me allergies ! But after a post about sex ratio, we are still trying to increase the amount of connexions to this blog. However, the title of this post is partly true, since, simultaneously, we are engaged to two competitions to […]
The last time I showed this post on the front page, in March, I thought the special issue about SPOT4 (Take5) was complete, but we were lacking a paper about snow cover, which came a little late, but still on time to join the special issue. The paper by Jean-Pierre Dedieu and colleagues was just […]