A record-breaking #phytoplankton bloom formed an elliptical ring around Chatham Island in Jan 2026. Sentinel-3 captured the structure 90 minutes before the widely shared NASA/VIIRS image. The bloom reached its peak in at least a decade. Check out our new #BCEarthGallery blog post:
👉 bit.ly/40zm9tI
A striking cloud formation over Lake Baikal: cold air flowing out of a river valley meets warmer, moist air, creating wave-like oscillations in the lower troposphere – and a cloud formation resembling a fluffy dandelion.Check it out in our new #BCEarthGallery blog post!
👉 bit.ly/4ahjUQ7
Curved surf lines and foam fields off the East Frisian Islands reveal how wind, waves and seabed topography interact. Sentinel-2 scenes highlight how coastal dynamics and seabed structure become visible from space.
#WaddenSea #CoastalDynamics
Find out more in the #BCEarthGallery:
👉 bit.ly/3LMr3zN
Really an amazing image! So beautiful can #watercolour be!
A vast cloud-free region over the Southern Ocean: ~1150 km wide, formed by a strong high-pressure system. Its area is so large that entire Hurricane Melissa and Super Typhoon Fungwong (2025) would have fitted inside it.
Visit our new #BCEarthGallery post:
👉 bit.ly/4qNC17c
Season’s greetings from above the Arctic.
Fractured sea ice and snow-covered terrain in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.
Warm wishes to everyone in our community, and thanks for another year of collaboration, curiosity, and shared enthusiasm for Earth observation!
Windstreaks are common on Mars, but rare on Earth. Patagonia is one of those exceptions: dried-out volcanic maars in the Pali-Aike field act as sediment sources, forming long streaks shaped by persistent winds.
Visit the #BCEarthGallery to learn more:
👉 bit.ly/44rt76v
#Geomorphology #RemoteSensing
Mysterious Formations in Great Bahama Bank
Our 250𝘁𝗵 #BCEarthGallery post — still amazed by Earth’s artistry! 🌍 🎉
#Sentinel2 reveals mysterious milky-blue swirls on the Great Bahama Bank — a natural artwork still puzzling scientists. 🌊🌀
Beauty and mystery, seen from space. Read the full article:
👉 bit.ly/3JaL9T8
#EarthObservation #FromSpace
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🚀 SNAP v13 released!
Five months after v12 and SNAP’s 10th anniversary, ESA’s Sentinel Applications Platform gets a new major version.
👉 step.esa.int/main/downloa...
Try also SNAPISTA, the interactive environment for SNAP scripting with Python.
👉 bit.ly/3JDriMx
#SNAP #ESA #EO #Copernicus
From space, the lakes near Bluenose Lake in Nunavut gleam in shades of turquoise and deep blue. Remote yet stable, they offer scientists a rare glimpse into pristine Arctic ecosystems.
Visit our new #BCEarthGallery article:
👉 bit.ly/438EEXM
#Arctic #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #ClimateScience
Severnaya Zemlya Glaciers
High in the Arctic, the glaciers of 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗭𝗲𝗺𝗹𝘆𝗮 display banded patterns that record centuries of ice formation and atmospheric dust — a frozen chronicle of climate history, seen from space. Visit our new #BCEarthGallery post:
👉 bit.ly/443pcfN
#Glaciers #Arctic #EarthObservation #Cryosphere
Autumn leaf colors
As chlorophyll fades, autumn paints the forests in gold, orange, and red — pigments revealed and created by nature’s chemistry. See how Sentinel-2 tracks this change across Alaska’s boreal landscape.
Read more in the full #BCEarthGallery post:
👉 bit.ly/4nWdKuq
#Sentinel2 #AutumnColors #EOData
Kerstin Stelzer presents Copernicus Land & Marine Services at the Sentinel-2 Validation Team Meeting at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati 🇮🇹 — sharing success stories of water quality products from Sentinel-2 data.
#Sentinel2 #Copernicus #WaterQuality #EO
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
This gallery is consistently one of the best things ever in remote sensing
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The Barnes Ice Cap, Canada’s last trace of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, is vanishing. Up to 20% of its mass are already lost in just 125 years. Ancient ice covering 6,000 km², 20,000 years old, melting away in real time.
Discover our new #BCEarthGallery blog!
👉 bit.ly/45ZWldM
#ClimateCrisis #Arctic
🌊 This July, an extensive algal bloom spread across the Baltic Sea, clearly visible from space thanks to fewer clouds than last year. Our #BCEarthGallery blog shows striking satellite images from 18 and 21 July. #BalticSea #AlgalBloom #EarthObservation #OceanColour
👉 bit.ly/4mvzJYE
🌍 Excited for #BiDS25 in Riga!
📅 29/09 Tutorial | 30/09 Hackathon
Supported by our colleague Konstantin Ntokas, the EOPF Zarr Hackathon dives deep into #CloudNative #EO with #Zarr, STAC, Dask, Julia & more.
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4oYOJ2P
Nature reveals its beauty: Sentinel-2 captured lenticular clouds encircling the towering Klyuchevskaya Sopka #Volcano in #Kamchatka. Soon after, Sentinel-3 observed a fresh Strombolian eruption breaking through dense cloud cover. Explore the sequence on our #BCEarthGallery blog!
👉 bit.ly/4lwINeh
New #BCEarthGallery blog post: Sediment dynamics in the Thames & Wash estuaries seen from space—how tides, rivers, and glacial history shape and what satellites capture as brown plumes, dark mudflats, or milky patches.
Read more here: 👉 bit.ly/3IXJzDn 🌊🛰️ #EarthObservation #Sentinel2
Bright red structures were spotted in Dongsha Atoll’s lagoon on 19 May, captured by #Sentinel-2. Likely an intense algal bloom—more vivid than any seen before. Similar features appeared faintly only three times since 2020. This year: four clear sightings. Visit our #BCEarthGallery:
👉 bit.ly/4nAOn1m
Sentinel-2 shows the Tłı̨chǫ Winter Road winding across frozen lakes to Gamèti — 80 km of ice through the boreal north. Near-infrared reveals what the eye can’t see: a seasonal highway linking remote lives in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Image & story in our #BCEarthGallery: 👉 bit.ly/3GIi7ZF
🌊🌍 Our colleague Jorge García is in Venice 🇮🇹 for the #FRM4SOC training on Ocean Colour Radiometry — 2 weeks of hands-on science at San Servolo Island + the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower 🌅
This training brings together experts from all over the 🌐
#OceanColour #RemoteSensing #Copernicus #Radiometry
Anne Hildagos Begrünung von Paris "zeigt in der aktuellen Hitzewelle erste, teils spektakuläre Resultate", schreibt der Standard: In den renaturierten Straßen und Vierteln ist es um bis zu vier Grad weniger heiß, auf den begrünten Dächern sind die Dachtemperaturen von 67,5 auf 35,7 Grad gesunken.
Our colleague Pontus Lurcock presents at the #LPS25:
“From notebooks to application packages with #xcube and #xcengine”
His talk shows how we use these open-source tools to move from Jupyter notebooks to scalable, cloud-ready EO applications.
#EarthObservation #WorkflowAutomation #OpenSource
🌍🛰️ Health meets Earth Observation!
Gunnar Brandt presented the EO4Health Virtual Observatory at #LPS2025 – using EO data to support early warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases.
#EO4Health #ClimateResilience #PublicHealth #ESA
🧬🌊 Carole Lebreton presents Life CYANOBLOOM at #LPS2025
A holistic, EO-based early warning system for cyanobacteria blooms—combining 🛰️satellite and hyperspectral data, 🌊 in-situ and lab measurements & 🧬genetic analysis. Toward more resilient water management.
#Cyanobloom #WaterQuality #EOForHealth
Those who missed the exchange session on ACIX, CMIX and RAMI will have another chance to gain insight into the status of CMIX-II, which will be presented by Jan tomorrow at 8.30am.
