🛰️ A spectacular phytoplankton bloom covered parts of the Gulf of Maine in June and July. Two major bloom zones developed: a greenish southern bloom of likely diatoms, dinoflagellates and other, and a much larger, milky-blue bloom along the coast. Visit our new #BCEarthGallery: 👉 tinyurl.com/mrxekce8

Today is the first #WorldLakeDay, designated by the United Nations to raise awareness of the importance of #lakes. Discover just how vital these ecosystems are to life as we know it on Earth, & some of our work at PML using #satellite data to monitor & protect them: pml.ac.uk/news/celebra...

Celebrating the first World Lake Day

Today – 27th August – is the first World Lake Day, designated last year by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness of the importance of lakes, and the need to ‘preserve, conserve,

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Over the last 30 years, lakes globally have warmed by ~0.22°C per decade. In Europe, the rate of warming is faster, at ~0.33°C per decade. On #WorldLakeDay, take a closer look at the findings on European lakes in the European State of the Climate 2025. ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025/l...

💧 Today is #WorldLakeDay! Lakes are changing - and satellites help us see it. Over the last 30 years, lakes globally have warmed by ~𝟬.𝟮𝟮°𝗖 per decade, and in Europe by ~𝟬.𝟯𝟯°𝗖. Read more: bit.ly/CCI_LSWT How we can measure lake restoration? Listen to the new FutureLakes podcast: bit.ly/FutureLakes

🌊 A wave in the sky? This #Sentinel2 image shows a compact packet of trapped gravity waves over the Baltic Sea, with unusual hair-like cloud bridges between the wave bands. A comparable structure has only been observed over the Yellow Sea in 2022. Read more in our #BCEarthGallery: 👉 bit.ly/4xfJcIM

🌊 𝗘𝗹 𝗡𝗶ñ𝗼 is active right now, with a strong event forecast through year's end. Our C3S tutorial shows how to compare El Niño years using Ocean Colour & Sea Surface Temperature data from the Climate Data Store, to spot Chl and SST anomalies: download, visualise, aggregate, analyse: 👉 bit.ly/4xEOYDy

🌊 Low tide in Saint John Harbor: The Bay of Fundy is famous for its extreme tides, with tidal ranges of up to 17 m. But its powerful tidal currents also create fascinating oceanographic phenomena. Visit our #BCEarthGallery to explore the full story: 👉 bit.ly/4bVcHHg #Sentinel2 #RemoteSensing #Ocean

💧 New Sentinel-3 atmospheric data from EUMETSAT! Near-Real-Time Total Column Water Vapour products use Sentinel-3 OLCI observations. We’re particularly pleased that Brockmann Consult’s IdePix cloud classification is directly implemented in the operational COWA processing software. 👉 bit.ly/TCWV-H2O

Khar Nuur, in western Mongolia, is a shallow lake with a remarkable underwater landscape. Satellite images show stable sandbanks and sharp stripes that become visible after the ice breaks up in spring. Discover more in our new #BCEarthGallery blogpost: 👉 bit.ly/4hkzHD5 #Sentinel2 #EarthObservation

After Europe’s recent heatwave, here’s something refreshingly different. 🧊 This #Sentinel2 image shows the ice-covered Kane Basin and Peabody Bay, where cracks, trapped icebergs and remarkable circular ice formations create stunning Arctic patterns. Visit our #BCEarthGallery post: 👉 bit.ly/3RF30Wx

A spectacular Sentinel-3 image captures a sediment plume stretching over 1,200 km across the North Sea-from the Thames Estuary to near Gothenburg. Rivers, tides and currents create an impressive natural pattern… or maybe a little dragon. 🐉🌊 Visit our new #BCEarthGallery article: 👉 bit.ly/3TYtaEd

In our next webinar on 22 July, Emilio Chuvieco will present the aims and key results of ESA's Climate Change Initiative Fire project, which produces burned area datasets at up to 250 m resolution, providing one of the most detailed and consistent long-term records of fire activity: t1p.de/xuyrj

🌊🛰️ Spring transformed the Mid-Atlantic Bight into shades of green, turquoise and milky blue. Sentinel-2 captured a large phytoplankton bloom shaped by upwelling, warming waters and nutrient-rich river inflow. Read the story in our new #BCEarthGallery blog: 👉 bit.ly/4fppHqG #OceanColour

Algae bloom in the Mid-Atlantic Bight - Brockmann Consult

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@esa.int #BIOMASS mission carries a P-band SAR sensor for #forestbiomass and #forestheight mapping. The long P-band wavelength enables analysis in densely vegetated areas. 💻The @esa-snap.bsky.social #SNAP Microwave Toolbox supports the first generation BIOMASS products. medium.com/@esa.snap/na...

🛰️ What looks like the remains of a huge building is in fact a 170 km² agricultural complex in eastern Bolivia. From space, the regular grid of fields and patches of woodland shows how human land use is reshaping entire landscapes. Check out our new #BCEarthGallery post: 👉 bit.ly/4vPtWSd

Agriculture in Eastern Bolivia - Brockmann Consult

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Long June days and unusually high temperatures fueled this year’s algal bloom in the Baltic Sea. 🌊 Sentinel-3 captured the bloom across the central Baltic, while a Sentinel-2 image revealed stunning details between Gotland and Saaremaa. Check out our new #BCEarthGallery article! 👉 bit.ly/4fjxaHE

Multiple von Kármán vortex streets emerge downstream of the Kuril Islands as cold air flows through the island chain. Satellite imagery beautifully reveals the hidden dynamics of atmospheric flow. Explore the full story on our #BCEarthGallery blog! 👉 bit.ly/4apHkno #EarthObservation #Meteorology

A natural neural network? Not quite. 🌍 This striking pattern in southern #Namibia is the result of rare rainfall, shallow depressions, and vegetation growing alongside channels that retain moisture in the Kalahari sands. Read more in our #BCEarthGallery: 👉 bit.ly/4w6L71t #RemoteSensing #Copernicus

The wind blowing across Bornholm generated atmospheric gravity waves, whilst eddies formed in the boundary layer above the sea. Together, they created a fascinating checkerboard-like pattern, clearly visible from space. Visit our new #BCEarthGallery blog: 🛰️ 👉 bit.ly/4e9hV3F #BalticSea #Sentinel2B

New webinar: Join Abigail Waring to learn about land surface temperature: what it is, how satellites measure it, and why it is important for climate research. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An almost perfectly semicircular wave formed in Colombia’s Golfo de Morrosquillo. Under sunglint conditions, a wave with a radius of 5.3 km became visible – and its centre points directly towards a mooring buoy and a 215-metre-long ship. Read more in our new #BCEarthGallery blog: 🛰️ 👉 bit.ly/4vB3Ku5

The Sunset Mountains in Arizona 🇺🇸 reveal more than geology. Millions of years of erosion shaped these colourful plateaus, while from space their outlines resemble mythical creatures. One even looks like a winged horse.🛰️ #Sentinel2 Find out more in our new #BCEarthGallery blog post: 👉 bit.ly/4fgfqNZ

Kashagan in the northern Caspian Sea is one of the world’s largest recent oil discoveries. #Sentinel2 imagery reveals artificial islands, ship traffic, and submerged pipeline structures beneath the shallow water surface. #EO #SatelliteImagery Visit our new #BCEarthGallery blog post: 👉 bit.ly/4fIBy3z

#Sentinel2 captures remarkable tidal patterns in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia. The bay’s huge tidal range creates extensive mudflats and fascinating eddy structures near shallow sandbanks. Read more in our new #BCEarthGallery blog post: 👉 bit.ly/3Rjs0SA #RemoteSensing #Copernicus #Oceanography

We are in Seville this week for the 3rd EO commercialisation forum, meeting entrepreneurs, innovators, space agencies and many others! 👉https://commercialisation.esa.int/event/esa-3rd-eo-commercialisation-forum/ @esa.int @esaclimate.bsky.social #EarthObservation #innovation

ESA 3rd EO Commercialisation Forum - ESA Commercialisation Gateway

Held in Seville (Spain), from 12 to 14 May 2026, the 3rd ESA Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum (ESA CommEO) will bring together the global Earth observation ecosystem for three days […]

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📣Eozilla 0.1.0 is out! #OpenSource Eozilla is a #Python tool suite for #EarthObservation processors, workflow orchestration, and #OGCAPI - Processes, incl. tools for Docker/Airflow packaging, and API/CLI/GUI clients. Available on PyPI & conda-forge. 👉https://github.com/eo-tools/eozilla

GitHub - eo-tools/eozilla

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These aren’t craters. Satellite images reveal large ring-shaped structures in Antarctica’s meltwater basins, some of which persist for decades. Find out more about this rare and yet little-documented phenomenon in our new #BCEarthGallery: 👉 bit.ly/4tbpz1B #Sentinel2 #RemoteSensing #Cryosphere

Flood, drought, refill: the Menindee Lakes in Australia are constantly changing. New Sentinel-2 data reveals how fast water, colour and vegetation patterns shift in this highly dynamic lake system. Visit our new #BCEarthGallery blog post: 👉 bit.ly/4vUNRzI #EarthObservation #Sentinel2 #Hydrology

Lake Magadi (Kenya) shines deep red – and it’s completely natural. Extreme salinity fuels algae & archaea producing protective pigments. Captured by #Sentinel2. A striking example of life in extreme environments. Read more in our #BCEarthGallery: 👉 bit.ly/4c8WeQo #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

Bright orange coastlines in Indonesia? This Sentinel-2 image reveals a large nickel deposit — a key resource for steel and EV batteries. Barges offshore are waiting to transport the ore. Check out our new #BCEarthGallery blog post: 👉 bit.ly/4c881wT #Sentinel2 #EarthObservation #EnergyTransition