Digital Earth: Big Earth Data Concepts
Exploring the Copernicus Data Space Browser
The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, launched in 2023, is the current portal to access the Copernicus satellite data. It possesses countless functionalities, some of which deserve their time on the spotlight.
The possibilities to explore the different bands provided by Sentinel-2 alone are worth a report on the subject. And that’s what I aim to do today!
I start by "playing around" with the band-substitution feature and then I explore the index creation feature.
Download ReportInteractive Earth Observation App
Google is a behemoth in the world of technology, so it’s no surprise that they have a part in the Earth Observation field. Their Google Earth program is quite famous, but their less famous (or, at least, less commonly used) Google Earth Engine can be quite useful too.
With access to Landsat and Sentinel-2 data, Google Earth Engine is a powerful tool for anyone dedicated to Earth Observation, and here I showcase a very simple example of what can be accomplished with it.