Stephan Meißl

RACE dashboard

June 5, 2020June 25, 2020Stephan MeißlEOX General, Euro Data Cube

The Rapid Action coronavirus Earth observation dashboard, otherwise known as RACE, presents the results of the joint cooperation between ESA and the European Commission on Covid 19 and EO. The RACE platform demonstrates how the use of Earth observation data can help shed new […]

COVID-19 Custom Script Contest

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020Stephan MeißlEOX General

The Euro Data Cube partners have designed a custom script contest focused on the COVID-19 crisis to collect ideas on how EO data can help society to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and predict its mid- and long-term impacts. The COVID-19 […]

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 […]

Nautical EOXploration

May 6, 2016February 23, 2017Stephan MeißlEOX General

The EOX team went on an inspiring sailing trip to southern Croatia. Enjoy some impressions we don’t want to hide from our dear readers. The next post will be more technical again, promised. Thanks to everybody for the great days […]

Videos in 3D

November 19, 2015December 2, 2015Stephan Meißlmapalupa

Video, on a globe? in 3D? interactive? in the browser? Yes we can! Best in Chrome. NASA last year released a video (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) showing how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe from […]

Top 5 trends in EO data usage

September 12, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

In the following I’m going to summarize and present my personal view on current trends in today’s access and usage of Earth Observation (EO) data. As this is a subjective analysis I invite you, dear reader, to share your thoughts […]

ESA’s Spot 1-5 via SM-Cat

September 1, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

The Static Map Catalogue introduced by Fabian in the last post is now used by ESA to also show their Spot 1-5 collections. The other available collections are ESA’s Landsat TM and ETM archives. Please read Fabians excellent intro if […]

FOSS4G-Europe 2015

July 21, 2015August 19, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

Last week the second FOSS4G-Europe conference took place in Como, Italy following two FOSS4G-CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) in Prague and Bucharest. It was a huge success with over 400 participants which means sold out already weeks in advance. Can […]

Sentinel-2

July 7, 2015December 22, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

Just two weeks ago the European satellite Sentinel-2 has been launched into orbit. Sentinel-2 is going to observe the Earth’s surface with an optical camera. In fact the first images have already been acquired and sent down to Earth just […]