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Carbon Monoxide

December 10, 2019July 14, 2020 Salvatore Tarchini

Carbon Monoxide is a gas that can be found in our Atmosphere and its presence is mainly due to the burning of fossils fuels and biomass (e.g forest or bushfires) and human activities in general. It is considered a pollutant … Continue reading Carbon Monoxide

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Aerosols

October 13, 2019March 29, 2020 Salvatore Tarchini

In the frame of air quality monitoring the Copernicus Sentinel-5p mission has been designed to identify the concentration of several atmospheric compounds and species in our atmosphere: one of those data is the Ultraviolet Aerosol Indexes (UVAI). Aerosols are a … Continue reading Aerosols

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Land Surface Temperature

August 29, 2019January 3, 2020 Salvatore Tarchini

“Land Surface Temperature (LST) is the radiative skin temperature of the land derived from solar radiation. It is a basic determinant of the terrestrial thermal behaviour, as it controls the effective radiating temperature of the Earth’s surface” [1]. LST is … Continue reading Land Surface Temperature

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Formaldehyde

July 7, 2019December 10, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Formaldehyde is an organic compound widely used in many industrial applications, such as the manufacturing of resins, production of disinfectants and biocides or like a tissue fixative. It is present in our atmosphere as a gas and its distribution in … Continue reading Formaldehyde

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The Ozone Hole

June 11, 2019October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

All life on Earth depends on the existence of a thin shield of a poisonous gas high in the atmosphere: the ozone layer. (Ozone Secretariat, UNEP, “Action on Ozone”) The ozone layer is a region of our atmosphere widely known for … Continue reading The Ozone Hole

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Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

May 13, 2019October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Nitrogen Dioxide is one of the atmospheric gas species retrieved from the data acquired by Sentinel-5P multispectral imaging spectrometer: TROPOMI. Sentinel-5P is the umpteenth spacecraft belonging the the Sentinels constellations and conceived in the framework of the Copernicus Programme. The main goal … Continue reading Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

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Mappamondo: Copernicus Natural Color World

January 16, 2019October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Since we started to publish Sentinel-3 Level 2 world maps via our EO browser we took the challenge to process a land worldwide cloud free image of the Earth with an RGB natural colour composition. Indeed with a proper tailoring of … Continue reading Mappamondo: Copernicus Natural Color World

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Time Series of Sentinel-3 Data

December 4, 2018October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

One of the mission needs of Sentinel-3 constellation is directly related to the evaluation of climate change effects on Earth. Indeed the spacecrafts and their payloads haven’t been designed to identify small objects on the ground but to revisit the … Continue reading Time Series of Sentinel-3 Data

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Oceans Mapping with Sentinel-3

June 21, 2018October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Our third step in the framework of World health monitoring and evaluation of climate changes effects on Earth stands on oceans and seas mapping. Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, as already described for land products, systematically delivers to the community a large … Continue reading Oceans Mapping with Sentinel-3

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World Land Mapping with Sentinel-3

June 8, 2018October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

The last week we have advertised our new born project aiming to reach a global land and marine monitoring of the World with Sentinel-3. Indeed this mission offers a large dataset of geophysical data really usefull in the framework of … Continue reading World Land Mapping with Sentinel-3

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