Clouds are visible bodies of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere. The origin of term “cloud” can be found in the old english clod or clud, meaning a hill or a mass of rock. Around the beginning of the 13th century the … Continue reading Swimming in the Clouds
Kamchatka is a peninsula located in the far east of Russia basically known for hosting a considerable number of glacier and stratovolcano, most of them with no activity in the last century. A stratovolcano is built up by many layers … Continue reading Kamchatka: the land of volcanoes
In the middle of March mount Etna has been systematically erupting for several days. The first eruption has been recorded on Wednesday March 15th (11:30 am local time) and the activity has spread until a second outbreak on Saturday, with a … Continue reading Etna outbreak
Sentinel 3-A SLSTR thermal bands allow us to have an excerpt on the phenomenon of thermal inertia and heat transfer involving the land masses and oceans on our Planet. The thermal inertia is the propensity of heat to transfer between … Continue reading Dead Sea and thermal inertia
Some days ago Chile has faced the worst forest fire in its history (see https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/jan/25/chile-wildfire-worst-ever-in-pictures). First fires have been detected on January 19th, south off Santiago, and up to January 24th they spread southward, destroying more than 600 sq miles … Continue reading Chile on Fire
Larsen C is the remaining part of the giant Larsen Ice Shelf belonging to Antarctic Peninsula. Its extension is around 68400 km^2 and it is distant around 2000 km far from the southern part of South America. In the last years … Continue reading Larsen C
This Atlantic Ocean storm, south to Greenland, has been caught both by S1-B and S3-A on December 6th and 7th. Here below the S1-SAR image in interferometric wide swath mode, followed by S3-OLCI RGB (bands 10-6-3) and S3-SLSTR thermal (band 9) … Continue reading Synergy Storm
Two different images of Amazon river mouth. The RGBs are processed from two different observations of two different Sentinel 3-A instruments: October 20th per OLCI (RGB bands 10-6-3) and November 20th for SLSTR (RGB 5-3-1 band composition). The Amazon river … Continue reading Amazon river estuary
One of the first published images (publishing started on November 17th) of Sentinel-3A SLSTR L1 NRT products. Those images are mosaics composed by three consecutive SLSTR products. The first image is an RGB composition of three bands: 0.555, 0.865 and … Continue reading Himalaya to India
The southern part of the Australian Great Barrier Reef (hard to find uncloudy image covering all the barrier!). RGB image from a Sentinel-3A OLCI L1 product and correspondent geolocated kmz. https://scihub.copernicus.eu S3A_OL_1_EFR____20161101T232504_20161101T232804_20161102T010602_0179_010_258_3240_SVL_O_NR_002 Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 Continue reading Great Barrier Reef