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  • Each SCO project relies on satellite data, like this Sentinel-2 view of the Gironde estuary on March 22, 2024.
    SCO France: 2024 Edition

    SCO France: 2024 Edition

    The fifth call for projects of SCO France resulted in the approval of 11 projects covering several areas of climate change impacts. With water management still at the heart of our concerns, this year saw an increase in the number of digital twins and a clear focus on the African continent.

    Learn more    ➔
  • The 85 albedo tiles available on Theia. CSTB can now use these measurements for its national database of 22 million residential buildings in mainland France.
    Sat4BDNB, French National Albedo

    Cities: Sat4BDNB operationalizes albedo production on a national scale

    Modifying the albedo of urban environments is an interesting way of reducing the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. However, albedo is easy to measure from space. Thanks to the SCO Sat4BDNB project, this measurement is now automatically calculated from Sentinel-2 data and freely available on Theia.

    Learn more    ➔
  • From left to right: Fires in Gironde (France) in July 2022, cyclone Nigel over the Atlantic in September 2023, landslide in Rwanda in May 2023.
    Coping with natural disasters

    Coping with natural disasters

    Fires, cyclones, mud, rain, snow, wind... Whatever their form, nature's wrath is intensifying. On Thursday 14 March 2023, at the twelfth " SCO France Quarterly Meeting ", three projects presented their SCOlutions, using satellite data to anticipate the impacts of some of them.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Study area encompassing the town of Grabel and the Rieumassel catchment on a Pleiades image acquired 9 months after the 2014 flood.
    Pléiades 4 Urban Flood

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Aerial photograph of the Vallée des Branloires (Possession Island), taken from a height of 60 m.
    Cartovege

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • XtremQuality can locate water reservoirs as small as 1 ha and provides information on their quality.
    XtremQuality

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • The SCO Portfolio is a summary of the achievements, dynamism and energy injected into the SCO alliance over the last four years.
    SCO Portfolio 2024

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • GreenSpace services in Valencia, Spain's 3rd city by population (left), and Bucharest, Romania's capital (right).
    GreenSpace

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Discover the SWOT operations room, from which the satellite is launched and from which any evasive manoeuvres are carried out, for example if a piece of debris threatens to hit the satellite.
    10th SCO France meeting

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Sentinel-2 view on 11 January 2024 of the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, between Brittany and Normandy, with snow to the north.
    Littosat

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Each SCO project relies on satellite data, like this Sentinel-2 view of the Gironde estuary on March 22, 2024.
    SCO France: 2024 Edition

    SCO France: 2024 Edition

    The fifth call for projects of SCO France resulted in the approval of 11 projects covering several areas of climate change impacts. With water management still at the heart of our concerns, this year saw an increase in the number of digital twins and a clear focus on the African continent.

    Learn more    ➔
  • The 85 albedo tiles available on Theia. CSTB can now use these measurements for its national database of 22 million residential buildings in mainland France.
    Sat4BDNB, French National Albedo

    Cities: Sat4BDNB operationalizes albedo production on a national scale

    Modifying the albedo of urban environments is an interesting way of reducing the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. However, albedo is easy to measure from space. Thanks to the SCO Sat4BDNB project, this measurement is now automatically calculated from Sentinel-2 data and freely available on Theia.

    Learn more    ➔
  • From left to right: Fires in Gironde (France) in July 2022, cyclone Nigel over the Atlantic in September 2023, landslide in Rwanda in May 2023.
    Coping with natural disasters

    Coping with natural disasters

    Fires, cyclones, mud, rain, snow, wind... Whatever their form, nature's wrath is intensifying. On Thursday 14 March 2023, at the twelfth " SCO France Quarterly Meeting ", three projects presented their SCOlutions, using satellite data to anticipate the impacts of some of them.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Study area encompassing the town of Grabel and the Rieumassel catchment on a Pleiades image acquired 9 months after the 2014 flood.
    Pléiades 4 Urban Flood

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Aerial photograph of the Vallée des Branloires (Possession Island), taken from a height of 60 m.
    Cartovege

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • XtremQuality can locate water reservoirs as small as 1 ha and provides information on their quality.
    XtremQuality

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • The SCO Portfolio is a summary of the achievements, dynamism and energy injected into the SCO alliance over the last four years.
    SCO Portfolio 2024

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • GreenSpace services in Valencia, Spain's 3rd city by population (left), and Bucharest, Romania's capital (right).
    GreenSpace

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Discover the SWOT operations room, from which the satellite is launched and from which any evasive manoeuvres are carried out, for example if a piece of debris threatens to hit the satellite.
    10th SCO France meeting

    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.

    Learn more    ➔
  • Sentinel-2 view on 11 January 2024 of the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, between Brittany and Normandy, with snow to the north.
    Littosat

    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.

    Learn more    ➔