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  • Pléiades 4 Urban Flood: start-up in situ

    P4UF is exploring the potential of Pleiades monoscopic imagery to assess the susceptibility of an urban environment to flooding and report on this via risk maps. The first step is to go out into the field and talk to future users.

  • Transition for Cartovege

    Dedicated to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, the Cartovege project has produced the very first description of the habitats of the Crozet Islands and is now successfully completing the corresponding mapping. So much so that the SCO is extending its label to cover the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands, thereby consolidating the tool for the long term.

  • XtremQuality, space technology for detecting water quality

    In order to take a comprehensive and effective approach to water, we need to consider both the quantity and quality of the resources available. As only the main reservoirs are instrumented for this purpose, the XtremQuality project is developing a method for satellite monitoring of the thousands of small bodies of water in France for which no information is available.

  • SCO Portfolio: the 2024 edition is here!

    To all SCO projects and team spirit aficionados, the new SCO Portfolio is now available. It compiles all the projects accredited from 2020 to 2023 and has a new section: services that are operational and available! Download or order.

  • GreenSpace: choose carefully trees species

    Dedicated to (re)greening cities to reduce urban heat islands and urban pollution, the GreenSpace project offers two major innovations. Welcome behind the scenes of this particularly instructive project on the close links between global warming and air pollution.

  • "Coping with natural disasters", soon the 12th SCO France Quarterly Meeting

    Fires, cyclones, mud, rain, snow, wind... Whatever their form, nature's wrath is intensifying. On Thursday 14 March 2023, tune in to the twelfth "SCO France Quarterly Meeting" to find out about three SCOlutions using satellite data to protect against destructive phenomena.

  • 10th SCO France meeting

    Emblematic of the satellite data at the heart of the SCO's activities, the Toulouse Space Centre hosted the 10th Committee meeting of the SCO France on 24 January 2024. After a morning of exchanges, the members present were able to visit three major space programmes, a remarkable opportunity to get a close-up view of uncommon activities.

  • Littosat: 2 demonstrators online

    How can we assess the impact of climate change and human activities on coastal habitats? And how can we assess public policies aimed at protecting biodiversity in these areas? With the Littosat dashboards, the two demonstrators of which are already online.

  • WACA-VAR : two workshops and a publication

    While all coastlines suffer from rising sea levels and coastal erosion, some are under particular threat, such as the West African coast, which is the focus of the WACA-VAR project. The team is particularly active, publishing scientific papers based on satellite data and organizing conferences.

  • GeoHaTACC or satellite optical data to detect geo-hydrological hazards

    The pioneering GeoHaTACC project is proving that it is possible to use optical remote sensing time series to automatically detect geo-hydrological hazards (landslides, sediment flooding) over very large areas, with a particular focus on areas where there is a lack of information. Find out more about the first 12 months of work.