Great news, we can announce that the operational production of the Theia snow collection has started well. It means that maps of the snow cover area are now constantly added to the Theia portal. These maps are automatically generated from Sentinel-2 observations and have a spatial resolution of 20 m. The Snow collection will progressively […]
Update January 31st, 10h00 : Distribution was just restarted, a few hundreds of images will be added today, and meanwhile, data are processed in Near Real Time.This January was a nightmare for MUSCATE. Following database issues to send data to the distribution server, our production system was stopped during the Christmas break and unstable the […]
You probably remember Simon Gascoin’s story about the Aru glacier avalanches, which started from Simon’s observations of the twin avalanches using the Sentinels. It was one of the big buzz pages of the blog in 2016. The first images were published here, then spread out in many scientific websites and the social networks. It seems […]
Sentinel-2 a acquis cette belle image de la campagne autour de Notre-Dame-des-Landes le 17 janvier 2018, le jour même où le Premier ministre annonçait que le projet d’aéroport du Grand Ouest était abandonné. Pour fêter l’occasion le ciel breton s’était éclairci !
Sorry for those of you waiting for our real time products, MUSCATE production is stalled these days. The teams are working hard to put it back in production.Update: it seems that the issues happened when sending products to the distribution server. A data base request became infinitely long, and the system waited for it. […]
Land cover map validation is a complex task. If you read French, you can check this post by Vincent Thierion which shows how the 2016 LC map of France produced by CESBIO stands with respect to data sources independent from those used for its production. But this is only one aspect of the validation. A […]
As you have probably noticed, our production rate has been very low these days and we are more than 10 days late in our delivery of L2A and snow cover products.This seems to be due to an intervention on CNES cluster end of December to add new nodes and disk space. MUSCATE sometimes loses communication […]
The Sentinel-2 mission status document, edited by ESA, is a very interesting reading. On its last edition of 2017, ESA announced very discretely that the spectral bands of Sentinel-2 had been revised, following a review of the pre-flight measurements. Very few details are provided on the nature of the error contained in the previous version, […]
=>Que cette nouvelle année vous apporte joie et bonheur, et pas seulement dans l’utilisation de séries temporelles ! Sans aucune originalité, ce début d’année est l’occasion de faire un petit bilan de l’année 2017. Voici, dans notre domaine, quelques uns des faits que je retiendrai : Le démarrage de la production des données de niveau 2A […]