sentinel-2 – Swiss Data Cube

5 new data products available

by sdcadminUncategorized October 6, 2022No Comments

Today the SDC team is pleased to release 5 new data products covering the entire Switzerland for a total data volume of 1.5TB. These data sets are directly available in the SwissEnvEO database. These products are time-series of: Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) Landsat [1984-2021]: https://geonetwork.swissdatacube.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/da78fa9f-a756-4538-a28a-8be7d53d4676 Sentinel-2 [2016-2021]: https://geonetwork.swissdatacube.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c491ef64-91b8-42ec-b317-27ce61b4f2c1 Leaf Area Index (LAI) Landsat [1984-2021]: https://geonetwork.swissdatacube.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c5bc0095-4b9d-4a50-9c17-a2e5c08c4c9c …

Climate Change in the Alps – Rhône Glacier Melting

by sdcadminUncategorized September 30, 2020September 30, 2020No Comments

The Rhône Glacier is located in the Swiss Alps (Valais) and is known for being the source of the Rhône river, the primary tributary of Lake Léman (the largest lake in Switzerland). This glacier is a perfect example of the ongoing impacts of climate change in the Alps. Increasing temperatures are gradually melting the ice …

Launch of the Atlas of Changing Switzerland

by sdcadminUncategorized September 27, 2019No Comments

Today, for the 10th anniversary of the Institute for Environmental Sciences of the University of Geneva, we are launching an interactive atlas allowing anyone to explore different sites across Switzerland looking at how the landscape has changed over the last two-three decades. This can help visualising and understanding how environmental changes such as climate, natural …

Drought impact on Lac des Brenets

by sdcadminUncategorized October 22, 2018October 22, 2018No Comments

Switzerland is currently knowing one of its most important drought of the last 40 years. Prolonged heat and dryness conditions during late spring, summer, and early autumn of 2018 has led to drought in most European countries (see). Different lakes in Switzerland are suffering from water shortages and their water levels are declining. This is …

ADC4SD: Supporting Armenia in Building the Armenian Data Cube

by sdcadminUncategorized September 28, 2018September 28, 2018No Comments

The Swiss Data Cube team has recently received a grant to support Armenian colleagues from the Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies (CENS) and the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) of the National Academy of Sciences in developing the first version of an Armenian Data Cube. The project is entitled “ADC4SD: Armenian Data Cube for …

SnowCover.CH: Monitoring Snow Cover changes over Switzerland using Earth Observations time-series

by sdcadminUncategorized July 19, 2018July 19, 2018No Comments

We have received the good news that the project “SnowCover.CH: Monitoring Snow Cover changes over Switzerland using Earth Observations time-series” has been accepted. This project jointly lead by UNIGE/GRID (Dr. Gregory Giuliani) & UZH/RSL (Dr. David Small) is supported by the UNIGE-UZH Joint Seed Funding. Since mid-December 2017 the University of Zurich and the University of …

Automated Sentinel-2 update

by sdcadminUncategorized June 15, 2018No Comments

The SDC team is pleased to announce that since June 10 the Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data archive is automatically updated every day to ensure that the latest Sentinel-2 A/B data are available in the Swiss Data Cube. We will soon also add a similar feature to the Landsat ARD archive.

Sentinel-2 available in the Swiss Data Cube

by sdcadminUncategorized February 7, 2018No Comments

Our team has successfully pre-processed and ingested the entire Sentinel-2 A/B archive for Switzerland. This corresponds to approximately 2400 images at 10m resolution covering the entire country for the last 2.5 years. Now, more than 2TB of Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data are available in the Swiss Data Cube and complement the already available 33 years …

First Sentinel-2 Snow Cover Map of Switzerland

by sdcadminUncategorized January 16, 2018January 16, 2018No Comments

Today, we have executed the Snow Observations from Space (SOfS) algorithm that our team is currently developing on the newly ingested Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data. The result is the first Sentinel-2 Snow Cover Map of Switzerland. This allows to identify different areas ranging from no snow cover to permanent snow cover during the period April-August …