By Charlotte Eberz | 18. December 2018 | Category blog,
Panama Canal The satellite image of the month shows a section of Panama and the Panama Canal. The scene is based on Sentinel-2 data from the Copernicus programme and shows a vegetation analysis with a resolution of 20 meters. The vegetation analysis colours healthy vegetation in bright green tones and can easily be distinguished from […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 8. November 2018 | Category blog, General,
Athens, port of piraeus The satellite image of the month November shows the Greek capital Athens and the port of Piraeus which is about about five kilometers from the city center. The image taken by the Sentinel 2A satellite displays a land-water combination with a spatial resolution of 20 meters. On the right half of […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 23. October 2018 | Category blog, General,
Hambach Forest The satellite image of the month October shows the Hambach opencast mine in the middle, the Hambach forest itself bordering to the south and the villages of Elsdorf and Sindorf to the east. The entire region shown in the picture is located in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The image is based […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 5. September 2018 | Category blog, General,
Bavaria – Munich The satellite image for the month of September shows the Bavarian capital Munich as well as the surrounding country and a couple of lakes. The scene shows a composition of different bands based on Sentinel-2 data from the Copernicus program. With free software the image was atmosphere-corrected and a land-water composition was […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 8. August 2018 | Category blog, General,
Tanzania – Ngorongoro The satellite image of the month August shows a section of the Ngorongoro nature reserve in Tanzania. The image is based on Sentinel-2 data of the Copernicus program and shows a true color combination. After downloading the scene an atmospheric correction was carried out with free software and a color composite was […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 4. July 2018 | Category blog, General,
Australia – Eighty Mile Beach The satellite image of the month July shows a true color composition of the “Eighty-Mile-Beach” on the west coast of Australia. The image is based on Sentinel-2 data of the Copernicus program. Sentinel-2 data are multispectral satellite images which are free to obtain. After downloading the scene an atmospheric correction […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 30. May 2018 | Category blog, General,
Russia – Murmansk The satellite image of the month June shows a section of Western Russia and a part of the coast to the Barents Sea in the north. This „natural color“ band combination is as close to „true color“ as you can get with a Sentinel 2 image. Because the three visible bands are […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 2. May 2018 | Category blog, General,
Morocco, Atlas Mountains The satellite image of the month May shows a section of the southern Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Despite the blaze of colors, the image is a true-color-composite and was created from different bands, based on Sentinel-2A data from the EU Copernicus program. The resolution provided is 10 meters. The different colours of […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 10. April 2018 | Category blog,
Halong Bay, Vietnam The satellite image of the month April shows a section of the north coast of Vietnam with numerous island formations. Among other things, many islands belonging to the famous Halong Bay can be identified well. The chosen colour combination for this image is a false colour composite, which offers good possibilities for […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 7. March 2018 | Category blog,
Southwest coast, South Korea The satellite picture of the month shows a false-color-composite of the southwest coast of South Korea and a part of the Yellow Sea. The image was created from different tapes based on Sentinel-2A data from the EU Copernicus program. The land-water combination is useful to identify the different island formations and […]
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