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Image Processing

Validation of iCOR for Sentinel-3 over land surfaces and new SNAP plug-ins
  • Image Processing,
  • atmospheric correction,
  • iCOR,
  • Sentinel-3,
  • SNAP

Validation of iCOR for Sentinel-3 over land surfaces and new SNAP plug-ins

By Erwin Wolters 10.05.2021

After releasing the iCOR plug-in for Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Imager (iCOR4S3) in 2019, a thorough validation was performed using among others the..

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Flexible cloud processing with OpenEO
  • Image Processing,
  • Data Cubes,
  • Cloud Processing,
  • OpenEO

Flexible cloud processing with OpenEO

By Jeroen Dries 03.10.2019

While more and more platforms to process EO data become available, it is getting increasingly hard to choose which platform is best suited to process your..

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Stop downloading satellite data! Use a Virtual Machine instead
  • Image Processing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • Sentinel,
  • Terrascope,
  • Virtual Machine

Stop downloading satellite data! Use a Virtual Machine instead

By Jurgen Everaerts 16.09.2019

Thanks to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth Observation programme, we have full, free and open access to massive amounts of data. But how do we use..

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IT developer in a world where the sky is not the limit
  • Image Processing,
  • IT developer

IT developer in a world where the sky is not the limit

By Bram Janssen 18.03.2019

Hi, I’m Bram, 28 years and passionate about IT, developing online platforms and discovering new technologies nonstop. It's not always easy to explain my..

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Small things count in the hyperspectral jungle
  • Image Processing,
  • Hyperspectral,
  • Camera & Sensor,
  • WHISPERS

Small things count in the hyperspectral jungle

By Stefan Livens 06.11.2018

The WHISPERS conferences promote hyperspectral image processing to solve remote sensing challenges. This aligns very well with the "full value chain”..

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Atmospheric correction for better surface reflectance information
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Image Processing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • atmospheric correction

Atmospheric correction for better surface reflectance information

By Erwin Wolters 12.06.2018

When you look at a satellite image, you are not thinking about reflectance, solar radiation or any other atmospheric disturbance, and you shouldn’t need..

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Full, free and open data access! But then what?
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Image Processing,
  • EO Data,
  • Sentinel

Full, free and open data access! But then what?

By Jurgen Everaerts 19.04.2018

In April 2014 Sentinel-1 was launched, as the first of a fleet of European satellites developed to deliver Earth observation data for the Copernicus..

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20 years of vegetation monitoring! What's next?
  • Time series,
  • Land use,
  • Image Processing,
  • Earth observation

20 years of vegetation monitoring! What's next?

By Dirk Van Speybroeck 24.03.2018

Today we travel back in time, to March 24th 1998. It is exactly 20 years ago that the first VEGETATION instrument was launched on board the SPOT 4..

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HyperScout! A small box with a big brain
  • Multitemporal image analysis,
  • Image Processing,
  • Hyperspectral,
  • Cubesat

HyperScout! A small box with a big brain

By Iskander Benhadj 02.02.2018

CubeSats, standardized spacecraft platforms which consist of a number of cubes of 10x10x10 cm3, provide practical, reliable, and cost‐effective launch..

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Deep learning keeps your feet dry
  • Image Processing,
  • deep learning,
  • AI

Deep learning keeps your feet dry

By Bart Beusen 30.01.2018

There’s no way around deep learning anymore. Since deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have started dominating the ImageNet Large Scale Visual..

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Understanding Landscapes: the case of Voeren
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Agriculture,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Image Processing

Understanding Landscapes: the case of Voeren

By Anne Gobin 10.01.2018

Landscapes evolve and the drivers behind the changes relate socio-economic activities to their bio-physical environment. Regions that have international..

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Land cover maps tailored to your needs
  • Climate,
  • Land use,
  • Image Processing,
  • EO Data,
  • Copernicus

Land cover maps tailored to your needs

By Marcel Buchhorn 16.11.2017

Static land cover maps are often hard to use in different applications. But with a wide range of user groups, we need more elastic land cover mapping..

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Mangroves & remote sensing – a perfect match!
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Image Processing,
  • EO Data

Mangroves & remote sensing – a perfect match!

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 09.10.2017

Mangroves are somewhat strange, exotic ecosystems, but they are crucial to our planet. Monitoring mangroves is therefore essential in understanding..

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On-demand image processing made easy
  • Image Processing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • MEP

On-demand image processing made easy

By Dirk Daems 12.09.2017

Earth observation missions produce huge quantities of data. But getting the right information at the right time is still often a challenge. Try the ..

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New technologies help plant breeders make a leap forward
  • Agriculture,
  • Image Processing,
  • drones,
  • EO Data

New technologies help plant breeders make a leap forward

By Jürgen Decloedt 12.07.2017

Imagine a field, where 10000 variaties are growing in tighly, regularly spaced plots. Welcome to the daily live of plant breeders. Plant breeders observe,..

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Taking hyperspectral science to the sky
  • Image Processing,
  • airborne,
  • APEX

Taking hyperspectral science to the sky

By Kristin Vreys 27.06.2017

Airborne remote sensing is more than just ‘put a sensor on a plane and fly’. A successful airborne data acquisition campaign relies on recurrent..

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Wind turbine blade inspections, going beyond the marketing story
  • Image Processing,
  • Infrastructure,
  • drones

Wind turbine blade inspections, going beyond the marketing story

By Pieter-Jan Baeck 15.06.2017

Drones pop up everywhere. Even in the world of wind turbine inspection. But to set up an automated inspection process however, we need more than a flying..

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PROBA-V raises the bar
  • Time series,
  • Image Processing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • MEP,
  • EO Data

PROBA-V raises the bar

By Dennis Clarijs 05.05.2017

ESA’s miniature satellite PROBA-V may only be as large as your average dishwasher, its potential in Earth Observation is inversely proportional. Providing..

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PROBA-V MEP takes it one step further with the Notebooks
  • Image Distribution,
  • Image Processing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • MEP

PROBA-V MEP takes it one step further with the Notebooks

By Jeroen Dries 10.04.2017

Have you ever read a paper showing nice graphs, without giving a clear explanation on how they were produced? Or do you want to share your code and..

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PROBA-V MEP brings you closer to the data
  • Land use,
  • Agriculture,
  • Image Distribution,
  • Image Processing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • MEP

PROBA-V MEP brings you closer to the data

By Erwin Goor 13.03.2017
PROBA-V’s Mission Exploitation Platform (MEP) complements the PROBA-V user segment by building an operational Exploitation Platform on the data and..
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