snow

State of the snow cover in the Pyrenees in January 2016

=> 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?

Ice breaker

=>  Among the sites observed by SPOT5 (Take5), there was the Baffin Island, in the North of Canada. The cloud cover was very high on that site, but it still let us observe the snow melt over land, and the sea ice disappear. As you will see below, it is fascinating to see how the […]

Take5 goes to the movies

=> How to go from 1 image every 5 days to 24 images per second ?It was possible, thanks to CNES funding, thanks to an imaginative producer, Gérard Dedieu (who does not smoke cigars yet), thanks to a talented film director and scenarist, Thierry Gentet (the only film director who understands space mechanics), and thanks […]

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