January 29, 2026
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There has been quite a bit of fuss in recent days and weeks about a public consultation of the European Commission regarding an initiative called Towards European open digital ecosystems. While the title does not in any way point towards … Continue reading
July 23, 2025
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The OSMF has recently extended the set of map layers on the OpenStreetMap website. And since none of the map designs of the two new layers has been discussed in my review of the state of map design in OpenStreetMap … Continue reading
September 14, 2023
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Supplementing the previous post about the extreme rain and resulting flooding in the eastern Mediterranean i also prepared an image from the other side of the sea at the north African coast in Libya, where the same storm that caused … Continue reading
September 12, 2023
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A few days ago a storm has brought extraordinarily intense rain to some parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, leading to substantial flooding in some regions. I prepared a rendering of a satellite image recorded on September the 10th of the … Continue reading
September 30, 2022
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As you maybe have already noticed this blog has moved to a new location – from blog.imagico.de to imagico.de/blog. This is mostly to support also https connections (for which a separate subdomain is inconvenient). The move was made difficult by … Continue reading
September 13, 2021
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The title of this section should be interpreted loosely this time – i have not discussed new developments in the domain in general for some time now so some of the news are more than a year old already. There … Continue reading
October 28, 2019
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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 13, 2018
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During the last days i updated this blog to a new WordPress version and a new PHP version which resulted in some unplanned downtime yesterday because of some messed up testing due to delayed configuration changes. But everything should be … Continue reading
June 5, 2018
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Quite a few things have happened in the world of open data satellite images since i last reported on satellite image news. The most significant change is that Sentinel-2 is now recording significantly more images in most parts of the … Continue reading
February 23, 2018
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Some news on open data satellite images: I updated the satellite image coverage visualizations. Here is the matching coverage volume plot over time: There are several important things you can see in that: With Landsat 8 the USGS has for … Continue reading