Thursday, June 11 2026

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Ports of Departure of the Global Sumud Flotilla

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Satellite imagery acquired by Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-2 provides a detailed view of the ports from which the Global Sumud Flotilla (https://globalsumudflotilla.org/) is scheduled to depart: Genoa (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Tunis (Tunisia), and Sicily (Italy). The mission is organized in two phases: 31 August 2025: vessels will depart from Genoa and Barcelona. 4 September 2025: additional

Chile on Fire

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 of land with thousands of people evacuated from their homes. Sentinel 3-A mission managed to

Larsen C

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 one of the largest Iceberg ever discovered is breaking from the ice shelf: its size

Synergy Storm

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) images. The OLCI image is the last of the duty cycle, before the eclipse period, indeed

Iraq-Mosul: Oil wells fires

Sentinel-2 image animation (Visible and SWIR RGB composites) acquired the 3rd November over Iraq-Mosul. ISIS militants had set the wells on fire hoping to obscure the view of Iraqi and coalition air forces. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37891389 Credits: SardegnaClima Onlus Products from: https://scihub.copernicus.eu

Amazon river estuary

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 carries the world’s greatest water data flow (more than any other river) and it is

Himalaya to India

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 1.61 µm, where only the first band belongs to the visible spectrum (the other ones

Great Barrier Reef

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

Italy: interferogram earthquake 30/10/2016

Interferogram with S1 show more narrow fringes around Castelluccio. Details: Products from :  https://scihub.copernicus.eu S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20161020T051118_20161020T051145_013569_015B9D_5855.SAFE  S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20161101T051118_20161101T051145_013744_0160F4_D5C1.SAFE Elaboration with SNAP.

Cyclone off the Mexican coast

OLCI L1 RGB image showing a cyclon in the Pacific Ocean, near the Mexico, on October 25th. In the eye of the storm the wind speed reached almost 150 km/h (credit to https://earth.nullschool.net) S3A_OL_1_EFR____20161025T175424_20161025T175724_20161025T193404_0179_010_155_2700_SVL_O_NR_002.SEN3 https://scihub.copernicus.eu Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016

Africa Atlantic Coast

African West Coast from Sentinel-3A 4 images mosaic, OLCI L1 full resolution. The RGB is processed considering a Near IR band for the red channel (wavelength 868 nm). S3A_OL_1_EFR____20161022T104201_20161022T104501_20161023T151526_0179_010_108_2340_LN1_O_NT_002.SEN3 S3A_OL_1_EFR____20161022T104501_20161022T104801_20161023T151555_0179_010_108_2520_LN1_O_NT_002.SEN3 S3A_OL_1_EFR____20161022T104801_20161022T105101_20161023T151625_0179_010_108_2700_LN1_O_NT_002.SEN3 S3A_OL_1_EFR____20161022T105101_20161022T105401_20161023T151654_0179_010_108_2879_LN1_O_NT_002.SEN3 https://scihub.copernicus.eu Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016

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