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Sentinel-2

New CropSAR service provides Cloud-Free Time Series at Pixel Level
  • Time series,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • Sentinel-1,
  • CropSAR

New CropSAR service provides Cloud-Free Time Series at Pixel Level

By Kristof Van Tricht 16.10.2023
In 2019 we released CropSAR, a service that combines both optical data from Sentinel-2 and radar data from Sentinel-1 to be able to look through the..
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Simplify your processing with the WorldCover annual composites
  • Sentinel-2,
  • land cover,
  • global land cover,
  • Sentinel-1,
  • worldcover

Simplify your processing with the WorldCover annual composites

By Daniele Zanaga 21.06.2023

During the development of ESA WorldCover 2020 and 2021, the first global land cover maps at 10 meters resolution based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, we..

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Large scale mapping for biodiversity monitoring
  • Biodiversity,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • global land cover,
  • vegetation,
  • GlobDiversity

Large scale mapping for biodiversity monitoring

By Ruben Van De Kerchove 09.02.2021

Last year, the European Space Agency finalized the GlobDiversity project, the first large-scale effort set up to develop and engineer remote sensing-based..

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Keeping an 'eye' on our European waters
  • Sentinel-2,
  • Copernicus,
  • water quality monitoring,
  • Ireland,
  • Environmental Protection Agency

Keeping an 'eye' on our European waters

By Gary Free 03.07.2019

Nineteen years after the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, a framework to guarantee that there is enough good-quality water for its..

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Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!
  • Time series,
  • Agriculture,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • EO Data,
  • deep learning,
  • AI,
  • Sentinel-1

Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!

By Kristof Van Tricht 03.06.2019

For the past decades now, remote sensing has been increasingly contributing to many agricultural monitoring services by providing worldwide systematic..

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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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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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iCOR, atmospheric image correction made accessible
  • Sentinel-2,
  • EO Data,
  • atmospheric correction,
  • image quality

iCOR, atmospheric image correction made accessible

By Sindy Sterckx 18.08.2017

When you look at a satellite image, although you may not see it, every pixel in the image is subtly contaminated by the atmosphere. If you want to derive..

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WatchITgrow® for the future of the Belgian potato chain
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Agriculture,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • WatchITgrow®,
  • Earth observation,
  • Crop monitoring,
  • Yield forecasting

WatchITgrow® for the future of the Belgian potato chain

By Jürgen Decloedt 16.03.2017
How on earth can space technology help farmers and the potato industry grow their business? Knowing what happens on every single field is the first step...
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