Tag Archives: Earth observation

Xarray-sentinel: Open source library to easily explore and access the Sentinel data products​

Xarray-sentinel: Open source library to easily explore and access the Sentinel data products Project reference period: 2021 -­ on going Open Source (sponsored by B-Open) Project Description The aim of xarray-sentinel is to enable interferometric processing of Sentinel-1 SAR IW and SM images with Xarray and Dask and provide support for other Sentinel products in […]

Sarsen: Open source library for SAR satellite image processing

Improvements in SAR image after gamma flattening with SarSen

Sarsen: Open source library for SAR satellite image processing Project reference period: 2016 -­ on going Open Source (partially sponsored by Microsoft) Project Description Sarsen is a collection of Open Source algorithms to process Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data in Python by B-Open. It currently supports geocoding and gamma flattening Sentinel-1 data on any DEM, […]

Hot cities: an analysis of the Urban Heat Island of Rome using MODIS data and Google Earth Engine

Hot cities: an analysis of the Urban Heat Island of Rome using MODIS data and Google Earth Engine Very soon web and TV news will be flooded with suggestions on how to cope with heat waves which will inevitably strike Italy in the summer months. Such heat waves deal a hard blow not only to […]

Terrain displacements after the central Italy earthquakes as measured by Sentinel-1 satellite

Terrain displacements after the central Italy earthquakes as measured by Sentinel-1 satellite The strong earthquakes which have struck Center Italy on the 26th (epicenter near Visso, magnitude 5,9 Richter) and the 30th of October 2016 (near Norcia, magnitude 6.5) have produced major dislocation on a wide extent. An accurate way to measure such displacements is […]

Gokturk / Prisma Image Simulator

Göktürk: Data simulator for space-­borne multi­spectral sensor Project reference period: 2013 on goingFounded by: Turkish National Security Regulations, as eGEOS’s supply. Technologies The simulator front­end relies on Javascript (OpenLayers), Xquery and ExtJS. The back­end uses modules and services written in Python (together with GDAL libraries and Pyramid framework) and interacts with a geographical extended database management system […]