Satellite Missions

Dozens of landslides after the 2018 Hokkaido earthquake

An earthquake with magnitude 6.7 occurred on 06 Sep 2018 in Hokkaido, Japan, killing at least 17 people and leaving nearly 3 million households in Hokkaido without electricity. The quake came two days after typhoon Jebi, « the strongest storm of 25 years« .  Below is an image comparison near Atsuma dam lake in the south of Hokkaido, […]

17.09.2018

A seamless and cloudless Sentinel-2 image of France in July 2018

=> UPDATE: resolution improved to 20m !  I had to tinker a couple of days with Theia’s Sentinel-2 monthly syntheses, in order to produce the mosaic below. For that, I used: This mosaic best resolution is 20m. It is already requiring 8 GB. We could have provided it at 10m resolution, but it would have […]

03.09.2018

La France sans nuages et sans coutures, vue par Sentinel-2 et Theia

=>UPDATE: résolution améliorée à 20m !Voilà, après quelques jours de bidouille, j’ai réussi à produire la mosaïque de la France à partir: La mosaïque vous est présentée à 20m de résolution, elle occupe déjà 8GO. Il aurait été possible de la produire à 10m, mais il aurait fallu 32 GO et quelques dizaines d’heures de […]

Sentinel-2 captured a jökulhlaup in Afghanistan

In the Landslide blog Dave Petley has analyzed Planet images of the Pashgor debris flow in Afghanistan (here and here). Here I used two Sentinel-2 images (before and after the event) to show the path of the debris flow from the high mountain area to the Panjshir Valley. Sentinel-2 images have a lower spatial resolution […]

Belgium at 10 m resolution in July 2018

Using the new L3A product in Theia it is possible to make nice cloud-free mosaics from Sentinel-2 imagery. Here is an example for Belgium and the script to do it in your terminal. Click here to view and pan in full screen.   # download L3A images over Belgium python theia_download.py -l ‘Belgium’ -d 2018-07-01 […]

30.08.2018

Les synthèses mensuelles de niveau 3A de Theia pour Sentinel-2

=> Heureusement que les biologistes animaliers ne sont pas censés passer sur ce blog, il pourriaent être choqués par ce qui suit. Bon, expliquons nous !

28.08.2018

Whitewhashing the Plastic Sea near Almería

Almería province in Spain is « one of the most recognisable spots on the planet from the lens of a passing satellite. The roofs of tens of thousands of closely packed plastic greenhouses form a blanket of mirrored light beaming into space. » (The Guardian). Greenhouses in Almería are typically made with transparent plastic to increase the […]

26.08.2018

Les conséquences de la sécheresse de l’an dernier en Provence sont toujours visibles en 2018 sur les images de Sentinel-2

=>En rentrant de nos vacances dans les Alpes, nous avons passé une journée près des gorges du Verdon, le grand Canyon européen (je sais, il y a une différence d’échelle avec l’Américain).  Ceci dit, le paysage était superbe, comme vous pouvez le voir dans le panorama ci-dessous.   Mais ne vous inquiétez pas, je ne […]

02.08.2018

Sentinel-2 sees a persistent degradation of forests near the Gorges du Verdon, after 2017 drought

=> Coming back from our stay in the Alps, we stayed one day near the Verdon Gorges, the European Grand Canyon (I know there is a difference in scale with the American one). Anyway, the landscape was gorgeous as you can seen on the panorama below.    But don’t worry, I will not tell you […]

01.08.2018

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