=> The first thing we do in the morning at CESBIO is a break : the coffee break. This is the perfect time to gather field information on the state of the snow cover in the Pyrenees. This year everyone agrees that snow is rare … Can we check this using remote sensing?
=> As said in a previous post, we are testing various methods of level 3A production, using SPOT4 (Take 5). The Theia Land Data Center will the use these methods to process Sentinel 2 data. In case you did not click on the link above, let’s recall that the level 3A products are monthly composite […]
=> At CNES, the prototype MUSCATE production facility of THEIA land data centre will soon start the production and distribution of Level 2A Landsat 5 and 7 data, and shortly after of LANDSAT 8 data covering the entire surface of France. For Landsat 5 and 7, we use data from both USGS and ESA : […]
=> Three and a half months after the first release of SPOT4 (Take5) products, we can draw a first analysis of the SPOT4(Take5) data downloads (from THEIA distribution website : http://spirit.cnes.fr/take5/) We have also obtained a ranking of the 45 sites versus the number of downloads, and notice that all 45 sites where at least […]
=> We are currently preparing a data reprocessing of all SPOT4 (Take5) data, to be released before the end of 2013. For this, I tested several aerosol models and compiled all the validation results for our multi-temporal Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) estimation method named MACCS. Our estimates are compared to AERONET in-situ AOT measurements.The MACCS […]
=> The CNES teams of the THEIA Land Data Center have reprocessed the SPOT4 (Take5) data, in order to take into account a large number of images that were not processed in the first place, because some data had not been yet received or because their processing had failed due to a few little bugs. The […]
=> We have now received all the L1A images of the SPOT4(Take5) experiment taken between January the 31st and March the 10th, for which at least some part of the surface is visible. We ortho-rectify these images to obtain level 1C products, but sometimes, the cloud cover is still too high to process the image. […]
=> Now that you know almost everything on our cloud detection method and on our shadow detection method, we can show you the first results obtained by Mireille Huc (CESBIO) with SPOT4(Take5) time series. As the method is multi-temporal, it needs an initialisation phase, and we had to wait until we had a sufficient number […]
(aerosol images have been added at the end of the post)=> The verification of the various steps of our SPOT4(take5) processing scheme is going on. On Thursday, we received our first time series, I orthorectified them on Friday, and we were then able to start testing our level 2A processor with the first time series. […]