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2015

=> Dear reader,  may 2015 bring you health and happyness !2015 should be a great year for the time series of optical images at a high resolution, with the launch of Sentinel 2A in Mat, in less than four months ! We have been waiting for it for so long that we can hardly believe […]

04.01.2015

Slides from the second SPOT (Take 5) Workshop

Voici les présentations des Journées SPOT4 (Take5) du 18 et 19 novembre 2014.  Cette réunion a réuni une centaine de personnes au CNES pour faire un bilan des acquisitions et des produits distribués, prendre connaissance des travaux et résultats des utilisateurs et obtenir un retour d’expérience.J’en profite pour remercier chaleureusement les deux organisatrices, Sylvia Sylvander […]

28.11.2014

SPOT5 (TAKE5) call for sites is out

=> Two good pieces of news for those of you who would like to submit a site for SPOT5 (TAKE5): 

25.11.2014

[SPOT5 (Take5)] Ready, Steady… / A vos marques, prêts…

LANDSAT and Sentinel-2 are programs in the long run, while the SPOT (Take5) experiments are sprints. The mission decision is always taken very close to the start of the experiment, and everything must go fast. Users who want to submit a site must be fit and ready : I have seen a draft of ESA’s […]

15.11.2014

New papers using SPOT4 (Take5) data

Here are two new papers that used SPOT4 (Take5), data to monitor irrigation, both in Morocco. The second one in the list below had already been described in this blog :Please remember that we are preparing a special issue on SPOT4 (Take5) in remote sensing journal, deadline is February 28th.  Voici deux nouveaux papiers utilisant […]

12.11.2014

The good things with Sunday work

=> I am not the kind of person to give lessons or to blame my colleagues, but I have to tell that some of them do not work on Sundays. And their excuses are variable and numerous : family, errands, work in the flat/house or in the garden, the necessity to rest from stressful weeks, […]

03.11.2014

Demandez le programme des journées SPOT4 (Take5) au CNES

Voici le programme des journées SPOT4 (Take5) des 18 et 19 novembreembre.Nous acceptons encore des inscriptions, mais ne tardez pas trop à écrire à sylvia.sylvander@cnes.fr ou danielle.barrere@cnes.fr Here is the agenda for the SPOT4 (Take5) days of November the 18th and 19th. We still accept new inscriptions, but do it quickly by sending an email […]

21.10.2014

Premier article utilisant SPOT4 (Take5). SPOT4 (Take5) first article.

As far as I know, here is the first published paper that used SPOT4 (Take5) data (together with SAR data from Terra SAR-X and Cosmo SkyMed X band SAR data). Please remember that we are preparing a special issue on SPOT4 (Take5) in remote sensing journal, deadline is February 28th.  A ma connaissance, voici le […]

Posters and Presentations about SPOT4 (Take5) shown at RAQRS-IV

=> The fourth edition of the RAQRS (Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing) Symposium took place in Valencia (Spain) two weeks ago. This symposium happens every forth year, is perfectly organised by J.Sobrino and his colleagues at University of Valencia. It  aims at showing the last advances in remote sensing for land surfaces, in all […]

08.10.2014

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