Congratulations to Henrik Fisser, whose Truck detection – Sensing trade from space has been awarded the first prize for the Euro Data Cube COVID-19 edition of the custom script contest. The idea exploits reflectance patterns of long moving vehicles, such as trucks, in Sentinel-2 images. While trucks are essentially too small to be recognised as …
Capturing video from Earth Observation (EO) is one of the most exciting innovations to hit the remote sensing world in recent times. High-resolution, full-colour EO video is enabling fundamental and disruptive changes for the Geospatial Intelligence and Earth Observation industries. EO Video provides several advantages over still imagery, for example: it enables faster and more …
One of the biggest entry level hurdles for integrating SAR data into modern earth observation analysis chains, is still the complexity of the data itself. Opposed to optical or multi-spectral data, which relates much more directly to the way human vision works and is hence more natural to interpret, SAR registers signals that are not …
Innovative approaches to distribute services to both public and private markets, being more automated and interoperable, are expected to support EO companies in getting the best return on investment. Micro geo-services based on the use of satellite data, delivering very focused earth measurements (e.g. burnt area map/index, NDVI, land use, etc..), address potentially a wide …
In just a few weeks we have already received some great ideas and see that a large community can contribute significantly with this tool – a BIG THANKS for that !!! The European Space Agency (ESA), in coordination with the European Commission, has decided to offer an additional opportunity for some selected ideas by European …
The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has virtually paralyzed daily life as we know it. Even when the spread of this highly infectious disease has been halted, the world will face huge challenges getting back to ‘normal’. European Space Agency (ESA), in coordination with the European Commission, is launching a special edition of Custom Script Contest, focused …
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 …
Euro Data Cube is a one-stop-shop for browsing, analysis and processing of EO data, from source up to the final product: Access to complete and global EO archives from main all open missions (e.g. Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, etc.), commercial satellites (PlanetScope, Pleiades, SPOT, WorldView, etc.) as well as Level 3 products (Copernicus Land Monitoring Services, …
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 …
