
Italy imaged by Proba-V
A false-colour image of Italy, as seen in infrared by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, with vegetation shown in red, mountain area in red–brown and built-up areas as green. Proba-V is a miniaturized ESA satellite (launched on 7 May 2013) smaller than a cubic meter with the objective to map land cover and vegetation growth across the