ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION WITH SENTINEL-3
A series of four initial deadly wildfires erupted across central Portugal in the afternoon of 17 June 2017 within minutes of each other. An intense heat wave preceded the fires, with many areas of Portugal, …
Tutorials
CROP MAPPING WITH SENTINEL-2 USING R
In this tutorial, we will employ RUS to run a supervised pixel/object based classification using the Random Forest algorithm and Sentinel-2 as input data over an agricultural area in Seville, Spain.
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URBAN MAPPING WITH SENTINEL-1
As the world is facing a large increase in population, reliable information on urban areas is required to assist and help in the decision-making process. Different methods can be…
CROP MAPPING WITH SENTINEL-2
The Guadalquivir Marshes represent one of the last territories occupied by man in the Spain’s region of Andalucía. Settlements were not definitive until the 1940 decade, when …
FRESHWATER QUALITY MONITORING FROM SPACE
Freshwater is a fundamental resource for human civilization, the availability or unavailability of it is directly linked to water security, food security, economic productivity a…
AIR QUALITY MONITORING WITH S5-P
Air pollution is a major environmental health problem that affects people in developed and developing countries alike. With millions of people dying prematurely every year as a d…
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT WITH SENTINEL-1 & SENTINEL-2
On 4 August 2020 in Lebanon, at around 17:55 local time (14:55 UTC), a fire broke out in Warehouse 12 at the Port of Beirut, where a cargo of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was…
OIL SPIL MAPPING WITH SENTINEL-1
Ocean pollution due to oil spills remains a major environmental hazard. Although oil tanker accidents are well known, they are not the main cause for this type of event. Illegal …
LITHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION WITH SENTINEL-1 & SENTINEL-2
Geologists can employ both SAR and optical remote sensing data in order to extract geological information, depending on the geological setting of area of interest. The use of SAR…