The MAFIS project will develop and demonstrate at pre-operational level a service aimed at providing consistent and statistically reliable information on forests, by combining multi-spectral satellite data and SAR data, to monitor natural and planted forests growth and forest losses due to human activities or to natural phenomena. The project will develop a specific methodology …
The EO Network of Resources (NoR) initiative promotes the use of European resource and platform services to facilitate a simplified and efficient exploitation of EO data in cloud environments. The initiative incentivises providers to contribute to a common framework harmonising the access to their services and helping the user to work with the data. A …
The “European Data Cube Facility” service contract was Kicked-off on April 23 for a project duration of 3 years, focusing not just on development of innovative product, but mostly on an operational service to be used by millions of people around the world. An initial portfolio of services will be available after 6 months and …
The Sentinel Hub project started in 2016 as one of the ESA PECS-funded activities with the objective of making Sentinel-2 data accessible in an easier manner. Now, three years later, Sentinel Hub is widely used, and serves not only Sentinel-2 but also data from numerous other EO satellite missions. It is used not just by …
Within ESA’s Earth Observation Envelope Program the Network of Resources aims to stimulate the uptake of platform services by science and commercial users. Cloud providers hosting Earth Observation Data are invited to offer promotional free resources for research use that ESA will promote to its institutional and industrial research network of projects to test out …
The Open Science Earth Observation (OSEO) call aims to foster scientific and applications uptake of full archives of EO data, by offering third party services which exploit state of the art ICT. ESA is pleased to announce the opening of the new EOX Cloud Free Sentinel-2 map service as a 3rd-party service added to the …
The 4 competing DIAS platforms offer Sentinel data readily available on the cloud, just bring your algorithm and deploy it to process huge volumes of data. Learn more details on http://copernicus.eu/news/copernicus-dias-contracts-signed and follow the Copernicus news for the latest updates The service will be available from mid-2018.
Endless sunshine, eternal summer: the Sentinel-2 cloudless layer combines over 80 trillion pixels collected during differing weather conditions between May 2016 and April 2017, and merges them into a sunny homogeneous mosaic, (almost) free from atmospheric impacts. Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The OGC EO Interface Integration Service provides users with OGC web service API access to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, Landsat, MODIS and ENVISAT MERIS EO Data Repository, constantly updated with fresh products from Sentinel and Landsat satellites. Depending on the service type requested, such direct access and related functionality (e.g. cropping, masking, band selection, band math) allows …
