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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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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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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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Level 3 Mosaics over Africa

May 23, 2018October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission has been designed and developed mainly to focus on the climate changes effects impacting on our planet and is carrying on board several instruments with medium-low resolution in order to pursuit this goal. From this perspective the … Continue reading Level 3 Mosaics over Africa

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Rainbow Mountains

October 2, 2017October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

On Earth there are a lot of natural wonders, some of them discovered only in the last decades and so become famous around the world only in recent times. This is the case of the colored mountains, aka rainbow mountains … Continue reading Rainbow Mountains

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