There has been a period of very sunny weather recently in large parts of the eastern United States allowing for this view of Autumn colors in the Appalachian Mountains as recorded by Sentinel-3:
November 14, 2021
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September 3, 2021
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Green Marble version 2.1
I am pleased to announce an update to my global satellite image product Green Marble. The Green Marble is a medium resolution whole earth image offering an unsurpassed uniformity in quality across the whole planet surface on both water and … Continue reading
January 28, 2021
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Snow in Europe
Compared to the previous years this winter seems to turn out to be relatively snow rich in many parts of Europe. On this occasion here a few satellite image impressions of that. First a view of snow in the lower … Continue reading
December 16, 2020
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Iceberg A-68 meets South Georgia
The large iceberg that has broken off the Antarctic peninsula in 2017 and that has slowly drifted across the Drake Passage during the past year – i showed some pictures from the beginning of that journey already – has now … Continue reading
June 10, 2020
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Satellite image recording limits
When i announced the Green Marble mosaic version 2 mosaic recently i mentioned that the land coloring is based on MODIS data while the water color is created from Sentinel-3 data. There are multiple reasons for this choice of data … Continue reading
June 1, 2020
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Spring in Scandinavia
During the last few days there has been very sunny weather in large parts of northern Europe – here an unusually clear view from Sentinel-3 for the Scandinavian peninsula.
April 18, 2020
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Introducing the Green Marble version 2
Like almost everyone else i have been constrained in my work and life during the past weeks due to the global pandemic we are experiencing and the measures enacted to counter its spread. I used parts of this time to … Continue reading
February 14, 2020
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Journey of an Iceberg
Two and half a year ago i showed pictures on a large iceberg calving in the Antarctic producing a more than hundred kilometer long iceberg east of the Antarctic peninsula. The iceberg has since then slowly moved away from its … Continue reading
October 28, 2019
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Satellite image news
The ESA recently made an interesting announcement about extending Sentinel-2B image recordings to lower sun positions in the northern hemisphere winter. A bit of background on that: For the past years Sentinel-2 image recordings have traditionally been made only with … Continue reading
October 18, 2018
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Sentinel-3 L2 data – an introduction
Back in July 2017 when the first Sentinel-3 Level-2 data was released i did not write a detailed report like i did for the Level-1 data because i wanted to wait for the rest of the products – which are … Continue reading
January 1, 2018
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Happy New Year 2018
A happy 2018 to all readers – with two recent images from the last year. From the southern hemisphere a Sentinel-3 OLCI image of the Falkland Islands And from the north a Landsat winter image of southern Iceland
November 18, 2017
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More dust and ice
Here another view of the dust cloud from the previous post from a few days later as seen by Sentinel-2: And another remarkable situation from the other side of Earth – an impressive assembly of big tabular icebergs near Elephant … Continue reading