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    The desert that ate a sea

    The desert that ate a sea

    Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite views efforts to stabilise a newly formed desert and salvage the shrinking Aral Sea
    The drying of Europe

    The drying of Europe

    An at-a-glance comparison of European vegetation from May to July 2018, as seen from ESA's Proba-V Earth-observing minisatellite, produced by VITO in Belgium
    Olympian view

    Olympian view

    Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite surveys the site of the Winter Olympics
    Flat land

    Flat land

    Technology image of the week: Proba-V captures the world’s largest salt plain, so flat that it is used to check satellite instruments
    Africa grows green

    Africa grows green

    Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite shows vegetation bloom across the African Sahel with the coming of the rainy season
    Earth? An app for that

    Earth? An app for that

    Access imagery from ESA's Earth-watching Proba-V minisatellite with a new app available from Google Play and the Apple App store
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    Catching the world in a box15 February 2019

    Catching the world in a box15 February 2019 The rapid evolution of Egypt’s Nile Delta over the last four years, as viewed from ESA’s Proba-V microsatellite. Think of it as a small token of our love for planet Earth: just a cubic metre in size, Proba-V maps land cover and vegetation growth acros...

    Public competition to sharpen views from Proba-V minisatellite12 October 2018

    Public competition to sharpen views from Proba-V minisatellite12 October 2018 ESA is challenging ‘citizen scientists’ to apply the latest AI and image processing techniques to upscale images acquired by the Earth-watching Proba-V minisatellite.

    One plant at a time 27 July 2017

    One plant at a time 27 July 2017 Precision farming is set to become even more precise with a new camera drawing on satellite imaging.   Thanks to research with ESA on new cameras, hyperspectral cameras flying on drones are now able to see details as small as 4–5 cm.  

    Pandora measures fire fumes over Rome28 June 2017

    Pandora measures fire fumes over Rome28 June 2017 While a fire at a rubbish depot was detected from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-3A and ESA’s Proba-V satellites, pollutants in the plume of thick smoke were measured by instruments that will be used to validate information from the upcoming Sentine...

    Proba-V images Portuguese forest fire21 June 2017

    Proba-V images Portuguese forest fire21 June 2017 ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite has captured the forest fire raging in central Portugal, revealing blackened scars and columns of smoke as well as pinpointing active fire hotspots.

    Proba-V eyes Bolivia’s vanishing lake08 February 2016

    Proba-V eyes Bolivia’s vanishing lake08 February 2016 Monitoring Earth’s surface every day, ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite has had a ringside seat as the second largest lake in Bolivia gradually dried up. Lake Poopó has now been declared fully evaporated.

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