Large Area Monitoring

Images from Landsat, Spot and other medium resolution satellites that find application in studies and analisys of Large Areas.

South Korea’s oil spill

Crude oil from the wrecked Hebei Spirit tanker is seen polluting the sea off South Korea in this image acquired on 11 December 2007 by Envisat`s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument. (1,5 Mb)

Credits: ESA

San Pietroburgo, satellite Envisat

St. Petersburg MERIS, 19 August 2002. St. Petersburg is clearly visible, on this Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer(MERIS) image, on the eastern extremity of the Gulf of Finland. (2200x2200 2,6 Mb)

Lethbridge, Canada

Irrigation in the region of Lethbridge, Canada - Spot 5 - 2.5 m colour (courtesy of SpotImage)

Landsat Foresta Umbra

Landsat satellite image of Foresta Umbra over Gargano ness, Puglia, Italy. (1600x1200 1,6Mb)