By 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 […]
Read MoreBy Charlotte Eberz | 6. February 2018 | Category blog,
Venice, Italy The satellite image of the month February shows a true-colour-composite of the european cultural metropolis and the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site of Venice at the Adriatic Sea. The image was created from different bands based on Sentinel-2A data from the EU Copernicus program and provides a resolution of 10 metres. The historical […]
Read MoreBy Carmen Tawalika | 12. January 2018 | Category blog, EO-me, Landsat, Sentinel
EO-me – the Earth Observation Metadata Enhancer platform developed by mundialis enriches the footprints of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 scenes with new metadata including scene characterisations like average temperature, precipitation sums, land cover classes and human population of each tile and even dynamic values like the average NDVI at overpass time. Furthermore, EO-me allows users to […]
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