Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
The Copernicus Browser, Europe's free satellite imagery service, has added a dedicated 'wildfires' visualization layer for Sentinel-2 data, making it easier for anyone to spot active fires, burned vegetation, and scorched landscapes. The layer, which went live on August 4, uses a script by remote sensing expert Pierre Markuse that combines visible, near-infrared, and short-wave infrared bands. Previously, users had to manually paste the script; now it's a default option, thanks to ESA mission scientist Simon Proud. This comes amid a record wildfire season, with fires raging in the US Pacific Northwest, Canada, France, and Spain.
That makes it arguably the best free and publicly available tool for delivering higher-resolution satellite imagery of everything from wildfires to war zones.
- vdfs
An other intesting use for this data is OSNIT about war, like recent conflicts it's used to confirm hits on specific places and sort validation for state-media reports
- tombrossman
Do any European space agencies make live weather imagery available at high resolution? I'm looking for a direct link to JPEGs that update regularly, to use with a cron script to use as desktop wallpaper.
I can easily do this for North America using imagery here, for example: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus.php?sat=G16 (bonus, imagery is Public Domain).
This direct link provides an updated image every five minutes, with even higher resolution available if you like: https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2...
Every time I revisit this idea and look for western Europe, I find nothing. Or, very low resolution, or some clunky, proprietary "viewer" forced on users. Is there really nothing similar for Europe?
- maelito
In case someone wants NASA firms wildfire 7 day vector tiles : http://serveur.cartes.app/pmtiles/MODIS_C6_1_Global_7d.pmtil...