A sunny Sunday just after an exceptional late-September snowfall… That’s already a stroke of luck. But the passage of Sentinel-2 on the same day makes this weekend even more special! The snow cover map was immediately processed and distributed by the new Copernicus Snow & Ice monitoring service powered by Cesbio’s algorithms! You can explore […]
L’estimation du rendement La connaissance du rendement agricole, que ce soit en prévision (avant la fin de la saison) ou en rétrospective (après la récolte) a beaucoup d’intérêt applicatif. On peut par exemple devenir riche en spéculant sur les marchés, et on peut prévoir des crises alimentaires (et aussi devenir riche en spéculant sur les […]
=> A few days ago, the Theia land data centre released the July 2020 monthly cloud free synthese of surface reflectances from Sentinel-2, for France, but also Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, the Northern part of Maghreb and Madagascar, and a large part of Sahel The distribution site of Theia products at CNES now provides […]
=> Le centre de données Theia a produit en début de semaine la synthèse mensuelle des données Sentinel-2 pour le mois de juillet 2020 (avec nos chaines WASP et MAJA). Pour la troisième année consécutive, celle-ci est sans nuages et montre une forte sécheresse. Et celle-ci s’est probablement aggravée au cours du mois d’août. […]
Update (18/08/2020): all the issues have been corrected, MUSCATE production and distribution have resumed. Update (17/08/2020): production has resumed, but it will take us a couple of days to catch the backlog up. The download site is still offline, but this should be solved quickly. Following the failure of an equipement which hosts the […]
The European Union is planning a new generation of the Sentinel-2 mission in 2030 or soon after. The main request from users is to improve the revisit frequency from 5 days to 2 to 3 days. There are two ways to improve the revisit: According to ESA and Airbus, the second solution is cheaper, and […]
This is the final post of a series of studies we did to find out how far we can extend the field of view of next generation of Sentinel-2 satellites. I hope I did not lose most readers in the length of the previous posts. For the readers who land on this page, which […]
Introduction To perform a correction of directional effect, directional models are required. A large number of directional models have been developed, such as the ones of Roujean [1] or Ross-Li [2], that try to reproduce the directional variations as a function of viewing angles and solar angles, with a rather good accuracy for most types […]
Le CNES a publié sur LinkedIn ces jolies photos du Centre Spatial de Toulouse après le confinement. Grâce aux satellites d’observation de la Terre, les ingénieurs du CNES sont capables d’étudier la végétation aux quatre coins du globe. Mais, les cordonniers sont souvent les plus mal chaussés… Pourraient-ils étudier leur propre pelouse par satellite ? […]