Muldrow Glacier (McKinley Glacier) is a large glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, USA. It is now moving 100 times faster than normal, which means that it is undergoing a « surge ». The abrupt acceleration of the glacier movement is clearly visible in the recent series of Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter images (animation below). […]
Update 17 June 2021: these images were used in a study published in Science by Shugar et al. (2021) A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya, doi:10.1126/science.abh4455. The Indian Space Agency (ISRO) activated the International Charter « Space and Major Disasters » to image the area of the disater in […]
Mise à jour 22 février 2021 : la campagne est terminée ! Merci aux participantes et participants, nous avons ~60 échantillons que nous allons analyser dans les mois qui viennent. [la suite est ici] Un dépôt de poussières sahariennes a recouvert la neige des Alpes et des Pyrénées. Avis aux amateurs de montagne : nous […]
Sur une image Pléiades acquise le 15 janvier, Etienne a remarqué une fracture qui traverse une bonne partie de la langue du glacier de l’Astrolabe auprès de la base Dumont-d’Urville en Antarctique. On peut reconstituer l’ouverture de cette crevasse à partir d’une série d’images Sentinel-1 (une année complète de janvier 2020 à janvier 2021) D’après […]
In the previous post, Olivier advocated for the open data policy in remote sensing. Although Oliver is facing some actual resistance because the Sentinel-HR mission would step on the toes of industrial champions, my feeling is that there is now a large consensus on this issue. The economic and social benefit of the open data […]
Assuming that you have downloaded from Theia and unzipped several products in the same directory. Assuming that you have a Linux OS with GNU Parallel, GDAL and OTB command line utilities installed.. Then, in your terminal, type: # Get the color table wget https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/remote_modules/let-it-snow/-/raw/75-lis-color-table-for-otb-not-updated-after-changed-nodata/hpc/LIS_SEB_style_OTB.txt # reproject all SNW raster products to a common […]
Snow and ice products are now available at high resolution (20×20 m) for all Europe in near-real time. However, Magellium is also processing the Sentinel-2 archive since September 2016. About 70% of Sentinel-2 observations have already been processed and 50 % are already published. This huge computation is being done on the CNES HPC […]
« Give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able to spell it. » Jimmy McGill I haven’t seen the « Breaking Bad » series but I’m a huge fan of « Better Call Saul ». Both series take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With its dry, sunny weather, Albuquerque is the perfect place for a modern-day Western. Vince Gilligan, the […]
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 […]