Latest Blog Posts

Explore GeoTIFFs like Landsat 8 scenes with COG-Explorer in the browser

May 9, 2018Fabian SchindlerEOxC

In our previous blog post about visualizing raster data we demonstrated a use case for client side browser based visualization of GeoTIFFs using modern web techniques and the geotiff.js library. The application uses GeoTIFFs derived from Sentinel-2 data and visualizes either single […]

Sentinel-2 Product Density Maps

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018Petr ŠevčíkEOX Maps

Big things have small beginnings, working with Earth observation data is no exception. Providing, distributing, visualizing, interpreting, and much more are only a few activities connected to the topic. It takes numerous steps to create a comprehensible output out of […]

mapalupa – Publish Your Data With Style

February 10, 2018Silvester PariEOX General

How it all started It all started with an observation: There was and still is a lot of satellite data floating around in the internet, much of it freely and openly accessible through initiatives like the Copernicus Programme. Scientists from […]

Visualizing GeoTIFF Tiles with OpenLayers

January 30, 2018Bernhard BaumrockEOX General

This blog is about visualizing raster data like elevation models or multiband satellite products as Web maps. It builds upon concepts developed at EOX IT Services GmbH and presented in an earlier post. Unlike using just single source data files […]

Browse open satellite data with EOxC

January 25, 2018Stephan MeißlEOxC

We made the Open Source tool EOxC to intuitively browse satellite data. Try it yourself and view, search/filter, and download Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 products directly in your browser. EOxC connects to OpenSearch and WMS services which in the above link are provided by Sentinel […]

s2maps.eu stumbling into half a million visitors

September 25, 2017Stephan MeißlEOX General, EOX Maps

How it happened and what we learned. On Friday, August 18, thanks to Joachim’s great work, we announced our worldwide Sentinel-2 cloudless map and were quite happy about a couple of hundreds of visitors over the next days. First global […]

Sentinel-2 global cloudless mosaic

August 18, 2017JoachimEOX Maps

Good news everyone: The first global, (almost) cloudfree mosaic of the world is released! Have a look at https://s2maps.eu. In March during the Sentinel-2B launch we released a cloudless mosaic covering Europe. The initial release helped us to identify weak […]

FOSS4G Europe 2017

July 21, 2017JoachimEOX General

This week the third FOSS4G-Europe conference took place in Paris, France. #foss4ge group shot pic.twitter.com/pI6SW7dzaw — Jody Garnett (@jodygarnett) July 20, 2017 Stephan presented the EOxC client for CODE-DE: Your browser doesn’t seem to support iframes. Please find the slides […]

Sentinel-2 cloudless: original tiles available

March 28, 2017JoachimEOX General

The original GeoTIFF files used to create the Sentinel-2 cloudless layer are now available on an AWS S3 bucket. The bucket uses the “requester pays” setting which means you need to access it using your AWS credentials. Bucket ID: eox-s2maps […]

EOX @ Swarm & CryoSat Science Meetings in Banff, Canada

March 21, 2017DanielEOX General, VirES

EOX is showing off a VirES for Swarm poster at location #72 as well as giving two VirES for Swarm Introduction & Training Sessions one on Tuesday at 11:30 and the other on Thursday at 9:45 both local time and […]