25th April 2025

Sentinel-6: Monitoring Ocean Changes from Space

Read an article about Copernicus Sentinel-6. It is a satellite mission carried out within the Copernicus programme. Its task is to monitor changes in sea and ocean levels with unique accuracy. The satellite is equipped with advanced altimetric instruments, enabling precise measurements of water surface topography. The data obtained by Sentinel-6 are crucial for studying climate change, analyzing ocean dynamics, and predicting extreme weather phenomena such as hurricanes.

31st March 2025

Using CREODIAS for oil spills monitoring

While object detection algorithms can be effective for detecting oil spills in satellite images, in this project a U-Net convolutional neural network was chosen for semantic segmentation, this approach produces binary masks that predict where an oil spill may be present.

26th February 2025

Satellite-based wildfire monitoring in California using EO data on CREODIAS

See a use case carried out on CREODIAS, where Copernicus Sentinel-2 data was used for analysing wildfires in Los Angeles.

20th December 2024

2025 - a year of EO embeddings?

Looking forward to 2025, we anticipate more concrete advancements in Earth observation, particularly through the integration of AI foundation models and embeddings. Foundation models, powerful AI systems trained on extensive datasets are being adapted to interpret satellite imagery with promising results. 

29th November 2024

Monitoring inland water quality in Poland using Python and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery

With the growth of cities and industry, more and more pollutants have started to find their way into Polish waters. According to many reports, poor condition of water concerns 91.5% of river resources, around 88% of lakes and nearly 100% of transitional and coastal surface waters.

31st October 2024

Monitoring Vegetation Using Sentinel-1 Data: the RVI Calculator 

The most popular approach to monitoring vegetation involves analyzing optical data. However, this method has limitations - optical data cannot be used during high cloud cover or nighttime.

27th September 2024

Potential of the Copernicus data in flood prediction and monitoring 

Flooding is one of the most destructive natural disasters, causing fatalities and damage in infrastructure and ecosystems. With observed intensification of extreme events with climate change, the need for effective flood monitoring becomes critical.

30th August 2024

Monitoring surface changes of the Pizol glacier in Switzerland using Landsat-5 and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery

Read an article that analyses the surface changes of the Pizol glacier in Switzerland using Landsat-5 and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and in particular, Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI). A comparison of satellite images from different years shows how the area of the Pizol glacier has been gradually decreasing over the past 39 years.

31st July 2024

How to use CREODIAS repository for analysing water areas with NDWI indicator

In this article, we talk about how you can access products from the CREODIAS repository and obtain information analysing original data. We focus on Sentinel-2 images, aiming to get water-oriented data.