=> Do state-of-the-art deep learning techniques allow for individual delineation of each cropland, as suggested by this recent article? In the context of an internship at CESBIO, we tried to evaluate the performance of Mask R-CNN architecture for this task. In this post, we summarize what we learned. Mask R-CNN principles To sum up, Mask […]
The Israeli and French VENµS satellite is a small research satellite designed to test two innovative missions : an optical mission with a frequent revisit on the French side, and an experiment of a Ion Thruster to maintain the satellite at a low altitude on the Israeli side. Of course, we did not manage to […]
=> When the summers were hot and dry during the past years, our monthly cloudfree syntheses of surface reflectances from Sentinel-2 for the month of July interested the media. It will probably not be the case in 2021, as France thankfully kept its green colour in July. Because of the cloud cover that […]
=> Depuis quelques années, lors de chaque été sec en France, nos synthèses mensuelles de réflectances de surface issues de Sentinel-2 pour le mois de juillet ont été reprises dans les médias. Ce ne sera probablement pas le cas cette année, car la France est restée bien verte en juillet 2021. En raison de […]
A CNES colleague, member of the Sentinel-2 quality working group, just warned us of coming changes to the Sentinel-2 Level 1C format. From what I have heard, there will be two main changes : the reflectance will be coded with an affine law, with an offset and a gain, instead of the current linear law […]
A few years only after its worst drought in 1,200 years (2011-2016), the drought returns to California. Lake Oroville is both a witness and a victim of the extreme hydro-meteorological variability in the Golden State. It provides water to « homes, farms, and industries in the San Francisco Bay area, the San Joaquin Valley and Southern […]
Malgré des chutes de neige tardives en mai, la durée d’enneigement est déficitaire dans les Pyrénées cette année comme on peut le voir sur cette synthèse d’images satellitaires: On se souvient aussi de la tempête Filomena qui a blanchi le piedmont pyrénéen le 10 janvier, bien visible sur le graphique ci-dessous. Suivant une suggestion de […]
=> Après qu’un premier tracteur s’est approché trop près de notre station ROSAS, le suivant est passé un peu trop loin. Même si on n’est jamais contents, c’est bien mieux comme ça ! Ce tracteur a semé le maïs sur la parcelle sur laquelle nous avons construit la station. S’il est acceptable de laisser un […]
=> After a first tractor came too close from our ROSAS station, the next one passed by a little too far. Even if we’re never satisfied, it is much better ! This tractor sowed the maize on the plot on which we have built the station. If it is acceptable to leave a two meter circle […]