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MAPEO, remote sensing data to create your digital twin
  • Water & coast,
  • Land use,
  • Agriculture,
  • Infrastructure,
  • MAPEO,
  • Digital Twin

MAPEO, remote sensing data to create your digital twin

By Jan Biesemans 23.06.2022

Data driven resource and asset management, and situational awareness applications force governmental organizations and companies to arrange their own..

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Release of the 10 m WorldCover map
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel,
  • global land cover,
  • worldcover

Release of the 10 m WorldCover map

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 20.10.2021
In 2019 we kicked-off ESA’s WorldCover project. An ambitious project set up to develop a new global land cover map at 10 m resolution to provide valuable..
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Towards a global land cover map at 10 m resolution
  • Land use,
  • Agriculture,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel,
  • global land cover,
  • worldcover

Towards a global land cover map at 10 m resolution

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 22.04.2021
The goal of ESA’s WorldCover project was clear! Develop a new global land cover map at 10 m resolution in less than 2 years to provide valuable..
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Supporting land and infrastructure management with CropSAR
  • Land use,
  • Infrastructure,
  • Sentinel,
  • Terrascope,
  • CropSAR

Supporting land and infrastructure management with CropSAR

By Jan Biesemans 16.03.2021

The Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites continuously provide new high-quality Earth observation (EO) data. This means that for Flanders we can access new..

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Annual 100 m land cover maps on a global scale!
  • Land use,
  • PROBA-V,
  • Copernicus,
  • vegetation

Annual 100 m land cover maps on a global scale!

By Marcel Buchhorn 09.09.2020
At the beginning of 2020, we already showed you how we use PROBA-V observations to map annual land cover changes. After sharing these promising annual..
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A first look at historical land cover changes over the Sahel
  • Land use,
  • Copernicus,
  • global land cover,
  • UTURN

A first look at historical land cover changes over the Sahel

By Niels Souverijns 17.06.2020
For those who already know us or follow us for quite some time it is no big surprise, we have a big interest and expertise in global land cover monitoring..
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Towards mapping annual land cover changes
  • Land use,
  • Copernicus,
  • land cover,
  • land cover viewer

Towards mapping annual land cover changes

By Marcel Buchhorn 07.01.2020

In May 2019, at the ESA Living Planet Symposium, we released the first Global Land Cover Layers, at 100 m resolution (for the year 2015) in the context of..

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Time to release the new and improved land cover maps
  • Land use,
  • PROBA-V,
  • Copernicus,
  • land cover,
  • fractional covers

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

By Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019

Whether you're active in agricultural monitoring, studying climate change impact or even modelling green energy installations, there’s an important..

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When aliens are coming!
  • Climate,
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity,
  • DIARS

When aliens are coming!

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 21.08.2018

Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are one of the most important drivers of biodiversity loss. Either introduced deliberately (e.g. through fish farming or..

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A vegetation satellite for coastal turbidity monitoring?
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Water & coast,
  • Land use,
  • coastal resources management

A vegetation satellite for coastal turbidity monitoring?

By Els Knaeps 10.04.2018

Coastal waters, including bays and estuaries, contain a wide variety of species and habitats. However, coastal waters are also extensively exploited for..

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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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Cape Town waiting for Day Zero
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Water & coast,
  • Climate,
  • Land use,
  • Cities

Cape Town waiting for Day Zero

By Dirk Van Speybroeck 09.02.2018

Recent news on the situation of the South African metropolis Cape Town underlines the gravity of drought as one of the most destructive environmental..

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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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Monitoring water use in agriculture from space
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Land use,
  • Agriculture,
  • EO Data

Monitoring water use in agriculture from space

By Laurent Tits 16.10.2017
Agriculture is one of the main water users in the world. In order to achieve food security in the future, it is essential that the water resources are..
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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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Africa mapped in unprecedented detail
  • Time series,
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Land use,
  • Biodiversity

Africa mapped in unprecedented detail

By Bruno Smets 21.09.2017
Land is an essential natural resource for humanity and all terrestrial ecosystems, but human demands exceed available resources. This leads to..
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service
  • Time series,
  • Climate,
  • Land use,
  • Earth observation

The Copernicus Climate Change Service

By Else Swinnen 30.03.2017
Understanding our planet and the impact of climate change: a vexing question for several years now. How is Europe actually facing climate change and its..
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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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