earth observation

Image from the EO4OG webpage (accessed July 2016)

Use of Earth Observation Data for Oil and Gas

GIS Contributor

Andrew Cutts, owner of ACGeospatial, discusses the role of GIS and earth observation data in the oil and gas industry in this guest article.

Acquired on 27 June 2015 at 10:25 UTC (12:25 CEST), just four days after launch, this close-up of France’s southern coast from Nice airport (lower left) to Menton (upper right) is a subset from the first image from the Sentinel-2A satellite. This false colour image was processed including the instrument’s high-resolution infrared spectral channel.

First Satellite Images from Sentinel-2 Delivered

Caitlin Dempsey

Four days after its launch, the first images from Sentinel-2 have been delivered.  Covering an area from central Europe and the ...

Free and Open Access to Sentinel Satellite Data

Caitlin Dempsey

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that free and open access to Sentinel satellite data will become available during ...

Artistic view of the Proba-V satellite. Source: ESA.

Tracking Global Vegetation with Micro-Satellite Proba-V

Rebecca Maxwell

The ESA, also known as the European Space Agency, has managed to do a lot of amazing feats in the ...

Envisat Satellite Malfunctioning

Caitlin Dempsey

Envisat, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) earth observation satellite, has stopped functioning properly.  Communication with the satellite was lost on ...