December 18, 2016
by chris
0 comments
As most people know satellites generally have a limited life time. Space is a harsh environment, even for machines specifically designed to operate there. Satellites sometimes also fail because of construction and operation mistakes. But the most universal reason why … Continue reading
December 13, 2016
by chris
0 comments
Based on my initial look at the Sentinel-3 data (see part 1, part 2 and part 3 for the details) here some comparitive assessments relative to the existing MODIS/VIIRS systems. As indicated in the title this is for OLCI, i.e. … Continue reading
December 12, 2016
by chris
0 comments
I am happy to announce that reduced waterbody data for low zoom level rendering of OpenStreetMap based maps is now available on a regular basis on openstreetmapdata.com (link removed because no more active). This is produced using the methods i … Continue reading
December 11, 2016
by chris
0 comments
This post in the third and likely last part of a report on the recently released Sentinel-3 level 1 data from the OLCI and SLSTR instruments. The first part provided general context, the second part discussed the data distribution form … Continue reading
December 6, 2016
by chris
0 comments
I know this has been a long time coming but today ESA rolled out another change in their Sentinel-2 data distribution form. While the previous change was moving from multiple tile scenes to single tile packages – which i discussed … Continue reading
December 5, 2016
by chris
6 Comments
This post in a continuation of the first look report on the recently released Sentinel-3 level 1 data from the OLCI and SLSTR instruments. The first part provided general context and discussion of the general data distribution form, this second … Continue reading
December 2, 2016
by chris
4 Comments
When i recently wrote about the start of public distribution of Sentinel-3 data i indicated that i was going to write about this in more detail once SLSTR data is also available. This has happened several weeks ago already but … Continue reading