Accessing Landsat and Sentinel-2 on Amazon Web services
The cloud has made it easier to process large amount of data, and satellite imagery processing benefits from cloud processing too. One of the cloud services that offers…
Author: Annekatrien
I'm a geogeek with a passion for satellite images. I studied earth observation in university, graduating with a master's degree in 2009. I then worked as a trainee at ESA (aka spacegeek heaven) for a year, and then moved on to develop information services from satellite images at a company in Norway. I now work fulltime as a consultant telling people about GIS and remote sensing.
Using Sentinel-2 for crop monitoring
Sentinel-2 is the optical satellite of the Copernicus programme. It can be compared to Landsat, although it has a better resolution, of 10 to 20 meters. We’ll be…
Extracting information from Sentinel-1
SAR images can see through clouds and in darkness, and are therefore very useful for operational monitoring of our seas. Detecting ships, icebergs, wind patterns, and oil spills…
Downloading Sentinel satellite imagery
Sentinel is the buzzword for a series of Earth observation missions like Sentinel-1 (Land and Ocean monitoring,launched in April 2014), Sentinel-2 (land monitoring, launched in June 2015) and…