Downloading time series from Theia can take a while, depending on the area and the time period covered by the images. Also, it consumes a lot of storage locally, since all the archives in .zip format have to be downloaded (the GeoDataHub will probably distribute Cloud Optimized Geotifs). From my experience, a lot of people […]
iota2 is the large scale mapping software developed at CESBIO. iota2 takes high resolution satellite image time series (SITS), usually Sentinel (1 and 2) or Landsat, and produces maps over large areas. Maps of most usual variables of interest in remote sensing can be produced, since iota2 can compute user-defined functions at the pixel level, […]
In this article, ESA gave us some news of the time table for the coming launches of next Sentinel1 and 2 satellites. As you may have heard, we have these days a shortage of European launchers, due to the ending of Soyouz launches from Kourou, the delays in Ariane 6 delivery, and the initial uncertainties […]
=> Claire Pascal, PhD student at CESBIO, under the supervision of Olivier Merlin (CNRS researcher) and Sylvain Ferrant (IRD researcher) brilliantly defended her thesis on the monitoring of water resources by satellite on November 18. Claire’s work focused on the Telangana region of India where rainfed cotton and flooded rice farming dominate. The region has […]
=> Claire Pascal, doctorante au CESBIO, sous la direction d’Olivier Merlin (chercheur CNRS) et co-dirigée par Sylvain Ferrant (chercheur IRD) a brillamment soutenu sa thèse sur le suivi des ressources en eau par satellite le 18 novembre. Les travaux de Claire se sont focalisés sur la région du Telangana en Inde où la culture non […]
Due to Brexit, the ECMWF moved some of its computer infrastructure from Reading (UK) to Bologna (IT), and a 5 week interruption of service occurred for the production of Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. As our Level 2A production for Sentinel-2 uses this information to set the type or aerosols for the atmospheric correction, we had […]
=> What can we say, except that the vegetation situation in France has worsened significantly in July 2022 compared to an already alarming June. The monthly syntheses of Sentinel-2 for the month of July are available since a few days, and the comparison with previous years shows an exceptional drought on the whole territory. Only […]
=> While Italy or Morocco have been alarmed for months, the drought has spread in June to all southwestern Europe (calling Brittany « southwestern » is a bit risky, I admit). The surface reflectance syntheses from Sentinel-2 have been delivered for the month of June a few days ago (I was on holidays), and the comparison with […]
=> Alors que l’Italie ou le Maroc s’alarment depuis des mois, la sécheresse s’est étendue en juin à toute l’Europe du Sud Ouest (qualifier la Bretagne de « Sud Ouest » est un peu osé, je le reconnais). Nous disposons des synthèses de réflectances de surface issues de Sentinel-2 pour le mois de juin depuis quelques jours, […]