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PROBA-V

Automated Service Builder on Proba-V MEP
  • PROBA-V,
  • MEP

Automated Service Builder on Proba-V MEP

By Jeroen Dries 18.12.2020

For the last 1.5 years, we have been working on a proof of concept to simplify running your algorithms on our 100+ node cluster, and more easily share..

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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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End of PROBA-V’s operational lifetime! What’s next?
  • PROBA-V,
  • global land cover,
  • vegetation,
  • Sentinel-3

End of PROBA-V’s operational lifetime! What’s next?

By Dennis Clarijs 09.04.2020

Unfortunately, all good stories come to an end, even so for PROBA-V.  What started as a “gap-filler” mission between SPOT-VEGETATION and the Sentinel-3..

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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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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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The dynamic nature of our planet
  • Remote Sensing,
  • PROBA-V,
  • EO Data,
  • land cover

The dynamic nature of our planet

By Erwin Wolters 21.12.2018

Launched in 2013 and more than 5 years of observations, ESA’s miniature satellite PROBA-V monitors the evolution of our planet’s vegetation every day. We..

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PROBA-V data for timely livestock management in Namibia
  • Agriculture,
  • PROBA-V,
  • cattle management,
  • land cover

PROBA-V data for timely livestock management in Namibia

By Cornelis van der Waal 06.09.2018

Namibia is the most arid country in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the high variability in rainfall there is widely fluctuating forage production from..

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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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Creating time series plots in a few steps
  • Time series,
  • Data harmonisation,
  • Multitemporal image analysis,
  • PROBA-V,
  • MEP,
  • notebooks

Creating time series plots in a few steps

By Jeroen Dries 31.05.2018

How is the Earth’s vegetation evolving? To find out, you extract all observation data of your area of interest over time from the EO data archive (a time..

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Supporting food security from space
  • Time series,
  • Agriculture,
  • Multitemporal image analysis,
  • PROBA-V,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • food security

Supporting food security from space

By Erwin Goor 15.12.2017

For a food secure world, agriculture needs to get digital, i.e. we need “smart” agriculture to ensure food for all. Combining and analyzing this “Big..

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How EO data is used for humanitarian response
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Agriculture,
  • PROBA-V,
  • EO Data

How EO data is used for humanitarian response

By Alex Merkovic-Orenstein 01.12.2017
VITO Remote Sensing distributes processed Earth Observation data to users worldwide. In this blog, we are giving the word to Action Contre La Faim (ACF)..
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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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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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