Auckland, June 6, 2016

Tagged by: Sentinel

PlanetScope Imagery Reveals that COVID Lockdown Reduced Sediments in Waters of Venice

Paper

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity noted several effects of lockdowns on the Earth system from orbit, including vacant highways, and reductions in air pollution. People affected in Venice reported that the local waters were clearer than they had been in decades. Milad Niroumand-Jadidi and colleagues at the University of Trento and […]

Fusing PlanetScope & Sentinel-2 for Daily, High-resolution Leaf Area

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Improving crop yields, vigor and health, can be facilitated by better monitoring of the cross-sectional area of vegetation—i.e., Leaf Area Index or LAI. However, measuring LAI on the ground is time consuming and expensive. Sentinel-2, operated by the European Space Agency, publishes a global LAI product; but at 10m resolution and a […]