Satellite Missions

MUSCATE news : 50000 L2A products from Sentinel-2A and 2B

Since it became operationnal in December last year, MUSCATE has produced 50 000 level 2A products from Sentinel-2A. Let’s recall what has been processed so far :    See full screen Map of the 650 tiles currently processed in near real time (in red). The blue tiles will be added beginning of next year.  All […]

15.11.2017

La mission Sentinel-2 va vraiment bientôt fournir des données tous les 5 jours, partout !

=>Mise à jour : L’ESA progresse rapidement, les acquisitions de toutes les terres ayant défilé sous S2B étaient disponibles sur PEPS le 12 Novembre. La mission Sentinel-2, qui se compose de deux satellites jumeaux, S2A et S2B, a été déclarée opérationnelle par l’ESA au début du mois d’Octobre, même si chacun des satellites n’observait en fait […]

12.11.2017

Sentinel-2 mission close to start observing all lands every 5th day, really !

=> Update : ESA is progressing fast. All lands overflown by Sentinel-2B were available in PEPS on November 12th, thanks to EDRS relay satellites.The Sentinel-2 mission, made of two twin satellites S2A and S2B, has been stated « operational » since beginning of October, even if each satellite was only observing on one orbit out of two […]

11.11.2017

[MUSCATE News] Processing of Sentinel-2B L2A products begins

=> ESA declared Sentinel-2B operational at the beginning of October, although preliminary data were already available. Since this morning, MUSCATE is producing and distributing Sentinel-2B Level 2A products using the MAJA processor (the L2A products are expressed in surface reflectance after atmospheric correction and are provided with a good quality cloud mask). The current production […]

26.10.2017

Enneigement des Deux Alpes en octobre 2017

Le 13 octobre on apprenait que le glacier des 2 Alpes n’ouvrira exceptionnellement pas à la Toussaint. Une décision prise en raison de précipitations insuffisantes et des températures élevées cet automne. J’ai fait tourner la chaîne Let-it-snow pour jeter un coup d’œil aux conditions d’enneigement. Hier Theia a mis à disposition l’image Sentinel-2A acquise mardi […]

20.10.2017

Yellow skies look grey from above

You must have seen, in the press or social networks, images like these ones, showing yellow skies ( Loup de Bretagne said « Blade Runner skies »). Such a coloured sky was seen in the west of France, then later in England, and further East in the next days.The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which keeps track of […]

19.10.2017

Validation et amélioration des produits Theia Surfaces Enneigées à partir d’images haute résolution

Post préparé par Marine Bouchet pour le blog Kalideos Alpes (version originale) Les séries temporelles d’images optiques des satellites Sentinel-2 permettent un suivi de la surface enneigée à une résolution spatiale de 20 m tous les 5 jours (en l’absence de nuages). Le CNES et le CESBIO développent, depuis 2015, une chaîne Let It Snow […]

18.10.2017

[Muscate news] temporary slowlyness

Update : MUSCATE is back on track for the real time production, thanks to PEPS return to nominal production, and a better stability of our platform.Some of you will have probably noticed that Theia production of Sentinel-2 L2A data is quite slow these days, and is not producing all the data it should in real […]

14.10.2017

Hot N Cold: Villarrica Volcano

Villarrica volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A colleague of mine (Esteban Alonso) told me that last week he went ski touring up there and when he reached the summit he could see the bubbling lava in the bottom of the crater, and could even feel its heat…

09.10.2017

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