A swirl with an eye and a nose? Nope, not weather—just river sediment in Yana Bay, seen by Sentinel-2. Nature sketches its own cartoons in one of the Arctic’s remotest deltas. Explore the full story in our new #BCEarthGallery article! #Sentinel2 #YanaBay #LaptevSea #Arctic 👉 bit.ly/4n6ne67

Let's introduce our gapfilled Surface Soil Moisture data set! Data gaps can arise from missing satellite overpasses and are an obstacle for machine learning analysis. Based on multi-satellite observations, researchers produced long-term gap-free climate data records, enabling holistic analysis.

Zoom in on your climate data 🎯 Try these Toolbox functions and focus on what matters to you: 📈 Time Series Analysis: Track changes at specific points ✂️ Region Cutting: Focus on custom areas for instant visuals Explore now: esa-climate-toolbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ap...

Cloud dynamics over the Sahara: Sentinel-2 captured a vast convective system (≈42,000 km²) with a 380 km outflow boundary. These arcs can even trigger dust storms like haboobs. #Sentinel2 #Sahara #Clouds #RemoteSensing #Haboob Read more in our new #BCEarthGallery blog post: 👉 bit.ly/3JYqcL4

Created 55 years ago, Iraq’s Lake Razzaza now tells a vivid story in colour — changing shades, exposed sands, and seasonal extremes. Explore its beauty and see how its colours and shape shift through time in our new #BCEarthGallery article! #EarthObservation #Lakes #WaterColour 👉 bit.ly/4pfyL4c

Nature’s own beauty generator: tides, winds and coastal shapes combine off Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula, creating breathtaking swirls captured by Sentinel-2. 🌀🌊 #EarthObservation #Sentinel2 #EarthArt #PlanetBeauty Find out more on our new #BCEarthGallery blog! 👉 bit.ly/4mJjVRP

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

🌍 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

🌊 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

Save the date! 💦 21 August at 13:00 CEST: the four sister @ec.europa.eu projects FutureLakes, ProCleanLakes, EUROLakes and @ferroproject.bsky.social will host a webinar on "Innovations in #LakeRestoration". 💦 Register here and join us online for a great webinar forms.office.com/e/XrSgXJNrzD

The 2025 @esa.int #LivingPlanetSymposium was in Vienna, with 6500+ registrations! We showcased our progress in cloud-native processing, modular workflows & scalable analysis-ready EO data services through tutorials, demos, oral and poster presentations. 🛰️ www.brockmann-consult.de/lps25-event-...

Fostering circular management of eutrophication by integration of hydrobiology, remote sensing, biotechnology, engineering and agriculture to #restorelakes in Europe. This is the @horizoneu.bsky.social @ferroproject.bsky.social - watch our video on YouTube! 🎬 www.youtube.com/@FERROProject

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

A nearly perfect 8 km ring of rock in Russia’s Far East – Kondyor Massif is no crater or volcano, but the frozen top of an ancient magma plume. See how Sentinel-2 captures its snow-covered peaks. Read about its mineral-rich core in our new #BCEarthGallery blog post! 👉 bit.ly/44woGaY

🌊🌍 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

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

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

Ralf Quast’s paper presented at #LPS25 has now been published in Remote Sensing of Environment! Title: "Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from TOA reflectance to plant functional type distributions" Free access via this Share Link (valid till Aug 22, 2025): 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lN5Y7qzT7...

Thank you to ESA and the entire #EO community for making #LPS25 such an inspiring event! 🌍 We're grateful for the opportunity to share our work and connect with so many brilliant minds. Let's continue to collaborate for the benefit of our planet! 💚 #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #ClimateAction

Carolien Toté (VITO Remote Sensing, Belgium) showed at #LPS25 how the #Sentinel3 Synergy product supports the ESA #ClimateChangeInitiative. It improves key Essential Climate Variables like Land Cover and Burnt Area — boosting long-term climate monitoring. #EO #RemoteSensing #ECV #LPS25

🛰️ Ralf Quast presents work on an end-to-end uncertainty budget for ESA’s MR Land Cover product, using Sentinel-3 OLCI over Africa’s Sudano-Sahel zone. His paper on Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis is accepted in Remote Sensing of Environment! 📈 #LPS25 #LandCover #EOScience #Uncertainty #Sentinel3

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.

🧬🌊 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

🌍🛰️ 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

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

☁️ Clouds in the spotlight at #LPS2025! The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing. Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors. #CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation

Dagmar Müller presented EnSAD – Satellite-based algae detection for Copernicus and Downstream Services at #LPS2025. Powered by over 3 years of hyperspectral EnMAP data, EnSAD supports water quality and bloom monitoring.

📈 From pixels to trends! At #LPS2025, Jorrit Scholze presents DASIF – using Earth observation to generate indicators for the German Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change (DAS). Turning satellite data into actionable insights for climate resilience. #DASIF #ClimateAdaptation #EO4Climate

💧 How clean is the water in our cities? At #LPS2025, Kerstin Stelzer gave a live SNAP demo on urban water quality monitoring—featuring the case of Hamburg City. Using EO data to track pollution and protect urban waterways. #SNAP #WaterQuality #UrbanEO #RemoteSensing #Hamburg #EarthObservation

Pia Laue, our colleague and Project Manager of the ESA Global Development Assistance Programme for Public Health, speaks at #LPS25 about how Earth Observation (EO) can strengthen health systems in international development.

🌱 Seagrass matters—for biodiversity, carbon storage, and coastal resilience. At #LPS2025, Kerstin Stelzer presented how #Sentinel-2 is being used to map seagrass in the German Wadden Sea (Schleswig-Holstein). A great example of EO data supporting marine ecosystem monitoring. #Seagrass #WaddenSea

In this #LPS2025 talk, Gunnar Brandt shared Brockmann Consult’s user perspective on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE), a strong foundation for EO innovation. 👉 dataspace.copernicus.eu #CDSE #Copernicus #EarthObservation #EO4All #OpenData

🔍 Related to Gunnar’s talk, Thomas Storm introduced xcube geoDB—a powerful geospatial DB in the xcube ecosystem. It reads features, processes them via a PostgreSQL DB (by Brockmann Consult & #EDC), and exposes the results through a REST API with full query support. More EO power, made accessible.

🌆 Urban Heat Islands are a rising challenge in climate adaptation. At #LPS2025, Carsten Brockmann presented HEATWISE—a project using upcoming #Sentinel missions data from CHIME & LSTM to create 3 new info products for urban resilience. Smart EO for smarter cities. #EO #Climate

🛰️ At this year’s Living Planet Symposium, our colleague Gunnar Brandt presented xcube during the #DataVisualisation session. xcube is our open-source software package that simplifies the exploitation of Earth observation data cubes to provide analysis-ready EO data. #xcube

🌍 At this year’s Living Planet Symposium, our colleague Konstantin Ntokas gave a live demo on how to leverage Sentinel Zarr data for ESA's Earth Observation Processing Framework.

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of #Sentinel2, a real game changer. Antonio Reppuci from the Copernicus Marine Service presents the High Resolution Ocean Colour Service developed by Brockmann Consult and RBINS.

Jorrit Scholze presents the Oder-So project at the Living Planet Symposium.

Kerstin Stelzer and Gunnar Brandt are presenting the xcube Viewer at the Living Planet Symposium.

Simonetta Cheli, ESA's Director of Earth Observation, thanks all the supporters of the #LPS25 and ESA, including Brockmann Consult. We would like to express our sincere thanks to ESA in return, and we are proud to be part of this successful European team.

Simonetta Cheli, ESA's Director of Earth Observation, presents an impressive overview of past, current and future Earth Observation (EO) satellites at the Living Planet Symposium.

ESA's Director General, Josef Aschbacher, gives the opening talk at the Living Planet Symposium in the impressive large hall. ESA's success in numbers! 📈

We’re excited to be at the ESA Living Planet Symposium all week (23–27 June) in Vienna! 🌍 Come visit us at Booth D8 on Level 0 to learn more about what we do at Brockmann Consult! Great talks, great people, and a great chance to connect! 👉 lps25.esa.int

The C3S Land Biosphere Products were discussed at the C3S General Assembly. The good questions and discussion demonstrate the importance of these products within the set of ECVs. #ClimateChange #Copernicus #ECMWF #EarthObservation

Great to see the 8th General Assembly of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) starting today in sunny Valencia! 🌞🌍 Lots of exciting talks and discussions ahead about climate data, services, and the future of #C3S. You can still catch the livestream starting at 2pm CET — worth tuning in!

A rare sight near South Georgia Island: #Sentinel-2 captured a triangular iceberg surrounded by a ring of melting ice. Calm seas allowed freshwater currents to gently arrange fragments into a rare, striking wreath pattern. A fleeting, beautiful sign of melting in motion. 🌊🧊 #Iceberg 👉 bit.ly/3T51vxK

A perfect rectangle floating over the Indian Ocean? 🔶 A single high-altitude cloud and its shadow fooled the eye. Nearby: a strikingly regular hexagonal cell, shaped by Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Cloud physics at its most geometric. 🌥️ To learn more, visit our #BCEarthGallery blog: 👉 bit.ly/4kjK20Q

🌊 CWSS, together with Brockmann Consult & Ubilabs, has improved access to Wadden Sea data: a new platform makes #TMAP (Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Programme) environmental data of three countries easily accessible – supporting the protection of this unique ecosystem. 🌍 #OpenData #WaddenSea

New #BCEarthGallery blog post: Stunning Sentinel-2 imagery reveals the little-known Aj Mountains of central Iran. Two extinct volcanic cones near Dehaj with circular landforms, visible in Sentinel-2 and 3D terrain views. The Persian-sourced info is a must-read for geology fans! 👉 bit.ly/435q43J