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Democratising EO Intelligence: CORSA and Major Tom Now Live on Terrascope

Bart Beusen 24.06.2025
EO Data, AI, data compression, CORSA

WorldCereal: Empowering Global Crop Mapping with Custom Data and Cloud Tools

Kristof Van Tricht 19.06.2025
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Earth Observation, Food Security, WorldCereal, Crop Mapping

EvoLand: Sneak Peek into Three CLMS Prototypes

Wai-Tim Ng 13.06.2025
Land Use, Agriculture, EO Data, Copernicus, Sentinel, AI, Land Cover, Machine Learning, OpenEO

Simplify and scale your EO workflows with CDSE and openEO

Pratichhya Sharma 11.06.2025
Image Processing, Copernicus, Cloud Processing, OpenEO, Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, CDSE

High-Resolution Land Degradation Neutrality Monitoring: Achievements of the ESA SEN4LDN Project

Carolien Toté 06.06.2025
Earth Observation, Copernicus, Sentinel, Land Cover, land degradation

New Copernicus High-Resolution Layer on Croplands Launched for Europe

Kasper Bonte 28.05.2025
Agriculture, Crop Monitoring, Copernicus, OpenEO, High Resolution, Crop Mapping

Unlocking Insights from Space: How VITO’s CalibrEO and IPT Elevate Satellite Data Quality

Iskander Benhadj 26.05.2025
calibration, small satellites

Advanced Land-Use Simulation for Sustainable Urban Planning With GeoDynamiX

Karolien Vermeiren 06.05.2025
Remote Sensing, Land Use, Geospatial, Policy Support

Future Climate Data for Today’s Decisions: Introducing the CLIMTAG Toolbox

Francisco Vilela Pereira 25.03.2025
Climate, Agriculture, plant breeding, climate change

Drones and Agricultural Insurance: Transforming Crop Damage Assessments

Dries Raymaekers 10.12.2024
Agriculture, MAPEO, Drone Innovations, agro-insurance, drone data

CORSA Unlocked: Hyperspectral Data Compression, AI Analytics, and Jetson-Driven Edge AI

Andreas Luyts 18.11.2024
EO Data, AI, data compression, self-supervised learning, CORSA

Leveraging satellite data and AI for environmental policy support

Lisa Landuyt 22.10.2024
Remote Sensing, Satellite, deep learning, AI, water quality monitoring, Flanders

Drone Sampling - Boosting efficiency for drone applications

Dries Raymaekers 13.08.2024
Agriculture, MAPEO, precision agriculture, Drone Innovations

Flexible habitat mapping for biodiversity and ecosystem management

Lori Giagnacovo 17.07.2024
Biodiversity, ecosystem, Natural Capital Accounting, Habitat Mapping

How to improve flood response with EO data?

Lisa Landuyt 24.06.2024
Satellite, drones, flood monitoring, data fusion, flows, emergency response

Can ultraviolet cameras improve oil spill detection?

Daniel Iordache 06.05.2024
Camera & Sensor
FuseTS provides direct access to advanced data fusion and time series analytics capabilities. Where AI meets EO data!

AI4FOOD FuseTS: a toolbox for Sentinel Data Fusion and Analytics

Bram Janssen 27.03.2024
Sentinel, AI, AI4FOOD, FuseTS, data fusion

Towards mapping land degradation at high resolution

Ruben Van De Kerchove 21.02.2024
Sentinel, Land Cover, worldcover, SEN4LDN, land degradation
Our goal is to connect the dots and make sure everybody can benefit from EO services!

The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, a game changer in the world of EO

Dennis Clarijs 26.01.2024
EO Data, Copernicus, Terrascope, Ecosystem services, Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Making drone technology accessible to farmers

Stephanie Delalieux 04.12.2023
Agriculture, MAPEO, precision agriculture, drone data
Through the support from Finexpo and the Belgian government, our institute has received the EXPLORE-VN Platform. This is a great tool that helps us monitor surface water quality from satellite images. As remote sensing is an ever evolving domain, we look forward to continue our cooperation to further improve the indicators and the accuracy achieved. Thank you Nazka and VITO for building this product. We are grateful to the Belgian Government's support for Vietnam, through the Finexpo Grant. In the future, we hope to continue to receive your support and cooperation.

EXPLORE-VN: water quality information for Vietnam's inland & coastal waters

Ils Reusen 07.11.2023
Copernicus, Sentinel, water quality monitoring, EOData

Towards EU forest structure maps! First results over Flanders

Wanda De Keersmaecker 23.10.2023
Sentinel, Forest monitoring, ForestPaths, Forest Structure Mapping, GEDI

Waste Watchers enables citizens to detect and map litter with drones and AI

Klaas Pauly 19.10.2023
drones, AI, plastic pollution, Citizen Science, Waste Watchers

New CropSAR service provides Cloud-Free Time Series at Pixel Level

Kristof Van Tricht 16.10.2023
Time series, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, CropSAR

New plant level statistics for phenotyping vegetable crops with MAPEO

Sam Oswald 25.09.2023
AI, MAPEO, precision agriculture, seed breeding, drone based phenotyping

An AI foundation model for airborne change detection

Xenia Ivashkovych 21.08.2023
Infrastructure, Change detection, AI, Machine Learning, Digital Twin, foundation model

Climate-resilient agriculture in Flanders

Anne Gobin 17.07.2023
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, precision agriculture, climate change, WaterRadar, Klimrek

Simplify your processing with the WorldCover annual composites

Daniele Zanaga 21.06.2023
Sentinel-2, Land Cover, global land cover, Sentinel-1, worldcover

Collecting super high resolution drone data for crop monitoring

Dries Raymaekers 12.06.2023
Crop Monitoring, drones, MAPEO, drone based phenotyping, Crop Mapping

Desert locust monitoring in East-Africa

Roel Van Hoolst 30.05.2023
Crop Monitoring, Desert Locust, ESA GDA, crop damage mapping

New INCA tool to support ecosystem accounting in Europe

Bruno Smets 17.05.2023
Biodiversity, ecosystem, NCA, Natural Capital Accounting, Ecosystem services, INCA

WorldCereal releases global seasonal crop type maps

Sven Gilliams 20.04.2023
Agriculture, Food Security, WorldCereal

Do's and don'ts to collect accurate drone data

Johan Mijnendonckx 27.03.2023
MAPEO, drone management system, drone data, GCP, Ground Control Points
Initiatives like the WaterAtlas are supported by the Blue Deal to put policy into practice

Match water supply and demand with the WaterAtlas

Wim Clymans 22.03.2023
Water & coast, WaterRadar, water management, WaterAtlas

Streamline your drone operations with MAPEO

Dries Raymaekers 17.02.2023
drones, MAPEO, drone management system, drone data

CORSA, EO data compression and processing with AI

Bart Beusen 06.02.2023
EO Data, AI, data compression, self-supervised learning, CORSA

Recent trends in Earth Observation for agro-insurance

Roel Van Hoolst 19.01.2023
Agriculture, Index insurance, agro-insurance, EO4I

Towards continuous land cover mapping at high resolution

Wanda De Keersmaecker 03.01.2023
deep learning, AI, Land Cover, RapidAI4EO

Automatic fruit count to support crop management

Maria Culman Forero 12.12.2022
deep learning, AI, precision agriculture, automatic annotation, data labelling, proximal sensing

WorldCover taking it to the next level

Ruben Van De Kerchove 28.10.2022
Biodiversity, Sentinel, Land Cover, global land cover, worldcover

Habitat mapping with AI to preserve Europe's natural capital

Bruno Smets 17.10.2022
Biodiversity, EO Data, AI, Land Cover, Natural Capital Accounting

Monitoring tidal influence on algae with drones

Willem Boone 29.09.2022
Water & coast, drones, water quality monitoring, MAPEO Water

Automated plant and gap count to support seed breeding

Nick Gutkin 13.09.2022
Agriculture, MAPEO, precision agriculture, seed breeding, drone based phenotyping

Will our potatoes be fried before the yield?

Bart Deronde 11.08.2022
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, EO Data, Food Security, CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin
MAPEO is the perfect template to kickstart your remote sensing operations.

MAPEO, remote sensing data to create your digital twin

Jan Biesemans 23.06.2022
Water & coast, Land Use, Agriculture, Infrastructure, MAPEO, Digital Twin
By removing the operational, financial and administrative burden, we can easily operationalize the services that don't have the budget.

A new collaboration platform for EO data and services

Hande Erdem 23.05.2022
Sentinel, Terrascope, EO services
To reach this ‘Earth-like Metaverse’, many stars need to be aligned

Destination Living Planet

Dennis Clarijs 19.05.2022
EO Data, Copernicus, Terrascope, worldcover, WorldCereal
The real return on investing in space is down on Earth. To you.

Spreading the EO word!

Steven Krekels 20.04.2022
Earth Observation, space technology

Drone and satellite data in the world of seed breeding

Jürgen Decloedt 28.03.2022
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, MAPEO, precision agriculture, drone based phenotyping

Citizen science in potato fields: what did it teach us?

Joris De Wolf 25.03.2022
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, climate change, CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin
Innovative technologies like AI allow us to develop objective tools for marine plastic litter detection.

Artificial Intelligence to detect marine plastic litter

Els Knaeps 17.03.2022
drones, EO Data, AI, artificial intelligence, marine litter, plastic pollution
After successfully demonstrating the WorldCereal System and products over the demonstration areas to the users, the next step is to role out the system at global scale.

Global Seasonal crop mapping: from validation to demonstration

Sven Gilliams 08.02.2022
Agriculture, Crop Monitoring, WorldCereal
Because we want to accelerate the implementation of Natural Capital Accounting

Transition to a sustainable planet through Natural Capital Accounting

Bruno Smets 16.01.2022
Biodiversity, SDGs, Geospatial, Natural Capital Accounting, Ecosystem services

Demolition Guide: from waste management to circular materials stock management

Tanja Van Achteren 02.12.2021
deep learning, AI, circular economy, urban mining, Demolition Guide

WatchITgrow, creating a digital twin of every field

Jürgen Decloedt 25.11.2021
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, Crop Monitoring, European Green Deal

High precision ship positioning with drones

Pieter-Jan Baeck 28.10.2021
drones, Port of Antwerp, ship positioning, mooring policy

Release of the 10 m WorldCover map

Ruben Van De Kerchove 20.10.2021
Land Use, Biodiversity, Sentinel, global land cover, worldcover

The impact of extreme weather on the cultivation of potatoes

Bart Deronde 29.09.2021
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin
Mapping crops globally requires a careful workflow design taking into account quality, technical feasibility and ground truth reality

Mapping crops at a global scale! What works and what doesn’t?

Kristof Van Tricht 19.07.2021
Agriculture, Crop Monitoring, WorldCereal
The release of the on-demand parcel based harvest detector service allows us to monitor the harvest dates of our fields anywhere in the world.

What happens on the fields? Monitoring the crop calendars

Kasper Bonte 07.07.2021
Agriculture, Food Security, e-shape, eurogeo, geo
Bringing together satellite and in situ data in a user-specific platform to monitor water quality supporting the digital transition in environmental agencies.

Space technology for monitoring water quality

Ils Reusen 01.07.2021
Water & coast, iCOR, water quality monitoring, WaterMonitor
The early detection of each individual pine tree suffering from the Pine Wilt Nematode disease is possible in a very early stage, before any visual symptoms appear, using affordable remote sensing techniques.

Early & automated detection of Pine Wilt Nematode to safeguard European forests

Nicolas Lewyckyj 21.06.2021
AI, MAPEO, Machine Learning, Disease detection, Forest monitoring
A key element to stimulate the uptake of EO data is an open dialogue between the EO industry and agro-insurance sector

Earth Observation best practices for the agro-insurance

Roel Van Hoolst 03.06.2021
Agriculture, EOData, agro-insurance
Combining 20 years of expertise and new technological developments to develop the best operational services and improve water quality monitor.

Water quality monitoring! From knowledge to operational services

Els Knaeps 27.05.2021
Water & coast, iCOR, water quality monitoring, plastic pollution, WaterMonitor, MAPEO Water

Validation of iCOR for Sentinel-3 over land surfaces and new SNAP plug-ins

Erwin Wolters 10.05.2021
Image Processing, atmospheric correction, iCOR, Sentinel-3, SNAP
The use of both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data allows us to not only improve resolution to 10 m but also to update the global land cover map almost in real time!

Towards a global land cover map at 10 m resolution

Ruben Van De Kerchove 22.04.2021
Land Use, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Sentinel, global land cover, worldcover
By combining EO data, remote sensing technology and agricultural experience we can truly enhance the potential and support the entire agri-food sector!

Remote sensing for agriculture! A history with a bright future

Laurent Tits 01.04.2021
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, AI, MAPEO, CropSAR
Availability & quality determine which water is used where and when.

Effluent to the rescue?

Anne Gobin 22.03.2021
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, smart farming, drought monitoring, irrigation, WaterRadar
Terrascope CropSAR - Finally, a global satellite mission service that is fit to supply intelligence data for local operational land and infrastructure management.

Supporting land and infrastructure management with CropSAR

Jan Biesemans 16.03.2021
Land Use, Infrastructure, Sentinel, Terrascope, CropSAR
I believe ensuring EO data quality is the key to democratize the use of EO for creating and unlocking new opportunities

Safeguarding EO data quality using vicarious calibration

Iskander Benhadj 10.03.2021
Hyperspectral, Cubesat, calibration, validation, Hyperscout

Object detection for plant phenotyping with Phase One and MAPEO

Carsten Wieser 12.02.2021
Agriculture, drones, AI, MAPEO, phenotyping, Phase One, object detection
GlobDiversity has made the first steps towards monitoring global biodiversity using remote sensing, a key effort in protecting our planet from further biodiversity loss

Large scale mapping for biodiversity monitoring

Ruben Van De Kerchove 09.02.2021
Biodiversity, Sentinel-2, global land cover, vegetation, GlobDiversity
Times are changing. Long periods of heat and drought are getting common in springtime and summer.

CurieuzeNeuzen in de tuin: citizen science towards heat and drought

Bart Deronde 25.01.2021
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, climate change, potato industry
Unravelling the spectral signals of sugar beet plants captured by drones

Searching for disease-resistant sugar beet varieties

Stephanie Delalieux 05.01.2021
Agriculture, drones, MAPEO, phenotyping, Machine Learning, Beetphen
By simplifying the running and sharing of algorithms on our cluster, users can focus on their own specific research instead of the requirements for processing EO data.

Automated Service Builder on Proba-V MEP

Jeroen Dries 18.12.2020
PROBA-V, MEP
Technological progress and globalization offer tremendous opportunities for innovation, job creation and growth.

Skills development and capacity building in EO/GI

Hande Erdem 14.12.2020
Copernicus, Terrascope, GEO skills, EO4GEO
We can do more with the wealth of information drones provide us about our field trial plots than simple averaging.

Applying spatial models to better examine plant traits

Joris De Wolf 07.12.2020
Agriculture, drones, MAPEO, phenotyping
Global crop type mapping, a community effort

WorldCereal, mapping global agriculture at field scale

Sven Gilliams 16.11.2020
Agriculture, Crop Monitoring, ESA, WorldCereal, Crop Mapping
The guaranteed availability of both optical and radar time series offers previously unexplored possibilities for crop monitoring and yield estimation in support of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

CAPSAT, quantifying yields with combined Sentinel data!

Jan Biesemans 08.10.2020
Agriculture, Sentinel, AI, CropSAR, CAPSAT
Land cover change is the corner stone to support the society in making informed decisions.

Annual 100 m land cover maps on a global scale!

Marcel Buchhorn 09.09.2020
Land Use, PROBA-V, Copernicus, vegetation
By integrating a versatile AI workflow into MAPEO we are speeding up the development of new plant trait products!

Developing an object detection workflow for drone imagery

Sam Oswald 17.08.2020
drones, AI, MAPEO, precision agriculture, phenotyping
To value our ecosystems capability, mitigate climate change and provide us with natural resources, it is crucial that we can accurately monitor how much carbon they absorb from the atmosphere and convert into biomass!

Monitoring ecosystem production at global scale

Roel Van Hoolst 08.07.2020
Land Cover, climate change, ecosystem, vegetation, Sentinel-3, CO2, Terra-P
Accurate air quality monitoring by Sentinel-5P TROPOMI is a very important step towards a future cleaner air

Air quality before, during and after COVID-19 lockdown

Erwin Wolters 22.06.2020
Terrascope, air quality, air pollution, Sentinel-5P, NO2
It's so cool to be able to combine our land cover classification workflow with the Landsat satellite archive!

A first look at historical land cover changes over the Sahel

Niels Souverijns 17.06.2020
Land Use, Copernicus, global land cover, UTURN
Improving agricultural services for sustainable agriculture, a work in progress

e-shape to support sustainable agriculture in Europe

Sven Gilliams 08.06.2020
Agriculture, Food Security, e-shape, eurogeo, geo

Belgian test sites to support EO missions

Bart Bomans 02.06.2020
drones, EO Data, validation, BELAIR
By implementing image processing techniques based on deep learning we can leverage the potential of remote sensing data and support pest management

Palm tree mapping using deep learning on aerial images

Maria Culman Forero 12.05.2020
Agriculture, EO Data, deep learning, AI, Red Palm Weevil
The final goal is to find a dedicated hyperspectral sensor for marine plastics monitoring that can be used on a small drone or satellite platform.

Detecting marine plastics! An experiment

Els Knaeps 23.04.2020
Water & coast, plastic pollution, marine environment
From mass production to mass customization, from satellite images to user-centric solutions

End of PROBA-V’s operational lifetime! What’s next?

Dennis Clarijs 09.04.2020
PROBA-V, global land cover, vegetation, Sentinel-3
Spectral data support farmers to optimize fertilization and irrigation practices and deal with environmental challenges

Satellites and drones for variable rate irrigation and fertilization

Pieter Janssens 26.03.2020
WatchITgrow®, Crop Monitoring, precision agriculture, POTENTIAL
Drones provide a tool for automated flower counting in the orchard which is useful to optimize flower thinning processes in order to increase fruit size and promote return bloom in the following season.

Drone-based flower count in fruit orchards

Stephanie Delalieux 04.03.2020
Agriculture, drones, MAPEO, fruitculture
MISTER provides a fast and efficient access to the most recent but also historical bathymetric data, delivered as a seamless data layer, completely hiding the complexity of the data management for the-end user.

Safeguarding the access to the Port of Antwerp using GIS

Bart Deronde 17.02.2020
Remote Sensing, dredging, GIS, Port of Antwerp
With our 20 Copernicus Global Land layers in the GEE you not only have the possibility to view the data in the highest resolution, but also to perform custom-made analysis and visualizations.

Copernicus global land cover maps now available in Google Earth Engine

Marcel Buchhorn 04.02.2020
Land Cover, global land cover, land cover viewer, Google Earth Engine
We quickly realized straight away that we could play a part in integrating young people with autism into a daily working environment – and thus into society as well

Tailored placements for students from De Lift Education

Bart Beusen 27.01.2020
Remote Sensing, deep learning, AI, Passwerk, De Lift

Towards mapping annual land cover changes

Marcel Buchhorn 07.01.2020
Land Use, Copernicus, Land Cover, land cover viewer
Drone-based phenotyping helps us to understand in what plant developmental stage(s) and in what magnitude, our products can stimulate plant growth

How Aphea.Bio is using drones to evaluate biostimulants

Marcelo Labra 10.12.2019
Agriculture, drones, MAPEO, phenotyping

APEX, from simulator to operational hyperspectral system

Bart Bomans 25.11.2019
Hyperspectral, Camera & Sensor, APEX, calibration, validation
Ecosystem services need protection for our well being! Natural capital accounting is the tool to do so.

Natural Capital Accounting to protect ecosystem services

Bruno Smets 18.11.2019
Biodiversity, SDGs, ecosystem, Natural Capital Accounting
If you have a clear vision, technology is never an obstacle! Use it, find the right partners, and you can really make a difference.

AVR and WatchITgrow support the potato industry

Koen Uyttenhove 25.10.2019
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, AVR, potato industry
openEO allows you to use multiple cloud based EO data and processing platforms in an easy and flexible way

Flexible cloud processing with OpenEO

Jeroen Dries 03.10.2019
Image Processing, Data Cubes, Cloud Processing, OpenEO
Unburden yourself from EO pre-processing chains

Stop downloading satellite data! Use a Virtual Machine instead

Jurgen Everaerts 16.09.2019
Image Processing, PROBA-V, Sentinel, Terrascope, Virtual Machine
Make your own integration kit and capture multispectral data with a low-cost drone.

How to integrate a multispectral camera under a low-cost drone

Robrecht Moelans 03.09.2019
drones, Camera & Sensor, MAPEO, multispectral
Using satellite data to monitor water quality is a major step forward in our ability to protect lakes around the country!

Keeping an 'eye' on our European waters

Gary Free 03.07.2019
Sentinel-2, Copernicus, water quality monitoring, Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency
WaPOR makes it possible to identify those areas where a further optimization is needed of the crop production system.

Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East

Laurent Tits 17.06.2019
Agriculture, Land Cover, irrigation, FAO, WaPOR
CropSAR lets us guard our crops from space, even when they're hiding beneath the clouds!

Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!

Kristof Van Tricht 03.06.2019
Time series, Agriculture, Sentinel-2, EO Data, deep learning, AI, Sentinel-1
The main reason for plastic debris is our misuse of (disposable) plastic. We need to map the plastic flux from land to sea, so that we can draw up efficient mitigation measures.

Plastic debris. Time to turn the tide ...

Lisa Devriese 23.05.2019
Water & coast, plastic, zwerfvuil, VLIZ

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019
Land Use, PROBA-V, Copernicus, Land Cover, fractional covers
Being part of the TRUSTEE Innovative Training Network allows VITO to continue to aspire for excellence in research

Training our future scientists and ecosystem modellers

Ils Reusen 02.05.2019
Remote Sensing, ecosystem, training, TRUSTEE
C3S provides the necessary data to derive the objective information on which policies can be built.

Copernicus monitoring the state of the world’s climate

Iskander Benhadj 24.04.2019
EO Data, Copernicus, climate change, essential climate variables, C3S

Artificial intelligence to detect asbestos in Flanders

Jan Biesemans 26.03.2019
AI, artificial intelligence, Actieplan Asbestafbouw, asbestos
Use IT technology to create eyes in the sky

IT developer in a world where the sky is not the limit

Bram Janssen 18.03.2019
Image Processing, IT developer
Drone technology for water quality gets out of its infancy. Use it wisely to enhance monitoring capacity.

Drones and dredging! Is there a match?

Liesbeth De Keukelaere 26.02.2019
drones, dredging, Jan De Nul, MONOCLE, water quality monitoring

Atmospheric correction software for Sentinel-3

Sindy Sterckx 11.02.2019
atmospheric correction, Sentinel, iCOR
It was amazing to show the LUMEN service operating successfully in real life conditions

Can we use drones in disaster management?

Jan Dries 24.01.2019
drones, airborne, maritime surveilance, flood monitoring
PROBA-V clearly shows the Earth’s surface natural and anthropogenic dynamics and urges further action for climate change mitigation.

The dynamic nature of our planet

Erwin Wolters 21.12.2018
Remote Sensing, PROBA-V, EO Data, Land Cover
Space is the place to really know a planet

Remote Sensing, beyond the science

Steven Krekels 18.12.2018
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, circular economy, space technology
Smart software solutions are crucial for small hyperspectral imaging systems

Small things count in the hyperspectral jungle

Stefan Livens 06.11.2018
Image Processing, Hyperspectral, Camera & Sensor, WHISPERS
Satellite data, automatically interpreted with agronomic insights, supports timely alerts on production and food security shocks worldwide.

ASIS, the tool for global agriculture drought monitoring

Roel Van Hoolst 16.10.2018
Agriculture, EO Data, Food Security, drought monitoring, ASIS
Copernicus satellite data produce each day a wealth of information not yet exploited to its full extent.

Sentinel-2 to support dredging activities

Robrecht Moelans 09.10.2018
Water & coast, dredging, Sentinel, Terrascope
Roll up your sleeves, dive into Terrascope!

Terrascope hits the road!

Dennis Clarijs 03.10.2018
Image Distribution, EO Data, Copernicus, Sentinel, Terrascope
Monitoring rangelands from space helps Namibian livestock farmers cope with climate variability

PROBA-V data for timely livestock management in Namibia

Cornelis van der Waal 06.09.2018
Agriculture, PROBA-V, cattle management, Land Cover
Remote Sensing makes it possible to move from point observations to spatially-explicit occurrence maps. A big step towards a better management of invasive alien species.

When aliens are coming!

Ruben Van De Kerchove 21.08.2018
Climate, Land Use, Biodiversity, DIARS
Remote sensing supports the transition towards a more resilient and sustainable agriculture.

When the heat gets tough ...

Bart Deronde 06.08.2018
Agriculture, WatchITgrow®, Crop Monitoring, EO Data, Terrascope
Creating a crop map requires data and tools to come together, from Sentinel to deep learning

A Sentinel shake for early crop mapping

Kristof Van Tricht 17.07.2018
Agriculture, Multitemporal image analysis, Sentinel, Food Security, deep learning, radar, optical
MapEO gives us a deeper insight in how our crops grow so we can provide an even better advice on varieties for cereals to the farmers.

Image analytics for objective plant variety assessment

Esther Monard 20.06.2018
Agriculture, drones, MAPEO, phenotyping, plant breeding
Improved atmospheric characterization sharpens our view on the Earth’s surface and its changes over time

Atmospheric correction for better surface reflectance information

Erwin Wolters 12.06.2018
Data harmonisation, Image Processing, PROBA-V, Sentinel-2, atmospheric correction
How a compact camera can give you a large hyperspectral view

A shoebox size hyperspectral imager with extreme performance

Joris Blommaert 04.06.2018
Earth Observation, Hyperspectral, Camera & Sensor, Cubesat, CHIEM
Don’t waste time on time series retrieval, jump straight into the analysis by using tools provided on the PROBA-V MEP.

Creating time series plots in a few steps

Jeroen Dries 31.05.2018
Time series, Data harmonisation, Multitemporal image analysis, PROBA-V, MEP, notebooks
Our goal? Making Sentinel data even more valuable for Belgium

Full, free and open data access! But then what?

Jurgen Everaerts 19.04.2018
Data harmonisation, Image Processing, EO Data, Sentinel
It's interesting to see the value and potential of PROBA-V, a global vegetation mission, for coastal monitoring

A vegetation satellite for coastal turbidity monitoring?

Els Knaeps 10.04.2018
Data harmonisation, Water & coast, Land Use, coastal resources management
From mass production to mass customization, and from satellite images to user-centric solutions

20 years of vegetation monitoring! What's next?

Dirk Van Speybroeck 24.03.2018
Time series, Land Use, Image Processing, Earth Observation
It’s important to bring remote sensing to daily management practices

Monitoring water quality in your backyard

Robrecht Moelans 19.03.2018
Water & coast, in situ observations, Horizon 2020, optical monitoring
Remote sensing is crucial for agricultural risk management

EO data for agricultural insurance

Francesco Rispoli 06.03.2018
Agriculture, EO Data, Food Security, Index insurance, SDGs
Let us maximize the use of all the freely available EO data

Cape Town waiting for Day Zero

Dirk Van Speybroeck 09.02.2018
Remote Sensing, Water & coast, Climate, Land Use, Cities
HyperScout: a mini box but with a revolutionized brain

HyperScout! A small box with a big brain

Iskander Benhadj 02.02.2018
Multitemporal image analysis, Image Processing, Hyperspectral, Cubesat
Deep learning techniques help us find small ditches, even in wooded areas

Deep learning keeps your feet dry

Bart Beusen 30.01.2018
Image Processing, deep learning, AI
Remote Sensing as a key instrument to preserve valuable landscapes

Understanding Landscapes: the case of Voeren

Anne Gobin 10.01.2018
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Image Processing
Let's take a step back! To see how far we've come and truly notice the potential of the future.

2017 through the eyes of remote sensing

Steven Krekels 21.12.2017
Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, EO Data
We need new and emerging technologies to better monitor the SDG’s at global scale

Supporting food security from space

Erwin Goor 15.12.2017
Time series, Agriculture, Multitemporal image analysis, PROBA-V, Sentinel-2, Food Security
EO Data lets humanitarians plan for difficult dry seasons across West Africa

How EO data is used for humanitarian response

Alex Merkovic-Orenstein 01.12.2017
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, PROBA-V, EO Data
Reliable crop statistics are essential to take fair and adequate decisions on commodity prices, farmer support and food security

Celebrating 25 years of agricultural resources monitoring

Herman Eerens 27.11.2017
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, EO Data
What fascinates me is how smart algorithms can push the limits of imaging

Spatiospectral processing, the key to high resolution hyperspectral imaging

Stefan Livens 21.11.2017
Agriculture, EO Data, Hyperspectral, ButterflEYE LS
We made Land Cover mapping simple for you, so that you can focus on your application.

Land cover maps tailored to your needs

Marcel Buchhorn 16.11.2017
Climate, Land Use, Image Processing, EO Data, Copernicus
Unusual weather events make farming a risky business and necessitate big data analysis to elucidate solutions

Weather impacts on agriculture

Anne Gobin 06.11.2017
Climate, Agriculture, EO Data, smart farming
Terrascope bundles quite some remote sensing know-how to serve the best available Sentinel-2 images over the Belgian territory

Going the extra mile for Sentinel data

Dennis Clarijs 24.10.2017
Image Distribution, EO Data, Copernicus, Sentinel, Terrascope
To enable Global Food Security, a more efficient water use in agriculture is needed

Monitoring water use in agriculture from space

Laurent Tits 16.10.2017
Remote Sensing, Land Use, Agriculture, EO Data
Mangroves are the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics, so it’s crucial to monitor these in detail

Mangroves & remote sensing – a perfect match!

Ruben Van De Kerchove 09.10.2017
Land Use, Biodiversity, Image Processing, EO Data
Never stop trying to make a difference

My motivation to do research

Laura Paladini 29.09.2017
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Crop Monitoring
Land policies require to think global and to act local

Africa mapped in unprecedented detail

Bruno Smets 21.09.2017
Time series, Data harmonisation, Land Use, Biodiversity
Investing in space boosts our Earth economy

Space Economy

Steven Krekels 14.09.2017
Remote Sensing, EO Data, Copernicus, space economy
Which image products you need is your decision. Make and check them, before you download

On-demand image processing made easy

Dirk Daems 12.09.2017
Image Processing, PROBA-V, MEP
The strength of iCOR is that it is scene generic and easily configurable

iCOR, atmospheric image correction made accessible

Sindy Sterckx 18.08.2017
Sentinel-2, EO Data, atmospheric correction, image quality
With MAPEO we support plant breeders in their quest to the next generation of wheat varieties

New technologies help plant breeders make a leap forward

Jürgen Decloedt 12.07.2017
Agriculture, Image Processing, drones, EO Data
Hyperspectral remote sensing reveals a wealth of information about the variety of ecosystems that surround us

Taking hyperspectral science to the sky

Kristin Vreys 27.06.2017
Image Processing, airborne, APEX
Our goal is to give you an objective overview of the state of your infrastructure

Wind turbine blade inspections, going beyond the marketing story

Pieter-Jan Baeck 15.06.2017
Image Processing, Infrastructure, drones
The focus is not always on the data, it is about getting the information out for you

Copernicus to maximize the benefit of EO data

Ils Reusen 06.06.2017
EO Data, Copernicus, Sentinel
Remote sensing supports growers in taking sustainable fruit management decisions

Drones for early fire blight detection

Stephanie Delalieux 23.05.2017
Remote Sensing, Agriculture
Hyperspectral imaging is like seeing colour in a black-and-white world

Hyperspectral imaging reinvented

Bavo Delauré 11.05.2017
EO Data, Hyperspectral, Camera & Sensor
Combined with the SPOT-VEGETATION time series, PROBA-V shows a huge potential for climate change monitoring.

PROBA-V raises the bar

Dennis Clarijs 05.05.2017
Time series, Image Processing, PROBA-V, MEP, EO Data
Watching the Earth from a distance unravels features, patterns and dynamics that cannot be seen on the ground.

Remote Sensing for Water & Coast

Liesbeth De Keukelaere 27.04.2017
Water & coast, Biodiversity, dredging, EO Data
Remote Sensing data will evidence global sea level rise impacts in vulnerable coastal areas world-wide

Monitoring global sea level rise using satellite data

Erwin Wolters 18.04.2017
Water & coast, Climate, Earth Observation
Excited to see how EO data, easy access, interactive programming and processing power come together.

PROBA-V MEP takes it one step further with the Notebooks

Jeroen Dries 10.04.2017
Image Distribution, Image Processing, PROBA-V, MEP
A drone flying at 120m altitude measures the water quality for an area equal to two soccer fields in one shot.

Drones to monitor water quality

Dries Raymaekers 06.04.2017
Water & coast, drones, dredging, sediment concentration
”Satellite observations deliver proof of climate change”

The Copernicus Climate Change Service

Else Swinnen 30.03.2017
Time series, Climate, Land Use, Earth Observation
Is solar power a possibility for you? In Flanders, Zonnekaart will tell you all you need to know!

Solar power to the people!

Bart Beusen 22.03.2017
Data harmonisation, Remote Sensing, Infrastructure, Change detection, Socio-economic indicators
"With watchITgrow® the Belgian potato sector can strengthen its position as world leader."

WatchITgrow® for the future of the Belgian potato chain

Jürgen Decloedt 16.03.2017
Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Sentinel-2, WatchITgrow®, Earth Observation, Crop Monitoring, Yield forecasting
"With the PROBA-V MEP Time Series Viewer, you can view the PROBA-V time series for a user-defined pixel or polygon."

PROBA-V MEP brings you closer to the data

Erwin Goor 13.03.2017
Land Use, Agriculture, Image Distribution, Image Processing, PROBA-V, MEP
“This edition of MultiTemp will focus on applications, discussing how different methodologies help deliver better information.”

MultiTemp 2017: prepare to meet in Bruges

Bart Deronde 01.03.2017
Time series, Data harmonisation, Remote Sensing, Climate, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Event, Multitemporal image analysis
"Satellite data like that of the Sentinel-2 can be used for a wide variety of applications."

Clicks, not weeks: sustainable waterway management with satellite data

Els Knaeps 22.02.2017
Satellite, Water & coast
"Geo data and insights can be a benefit for companies, authorities and the general public."

See the bigger picture on PRISM

Steven Krekels 15.02.2017
Remote Sensing