Nature & Environment

Take a look at biodiversity and your environment from a distance

Our landscape blend has a major impact on biodiversity and the environment. Think of the balance between green and urban landscapes. And between living, nature and industry. Satellite imagery shows you the big picture. And they help to manage climate change.

Land use, green and climate in the blink of an eye

Easily zooming in on the entire land use

Belgium covers 30,688 km2 . 20% consists of forest. And 16% is built up. With our satellites, you can view land use within that entire space up to a resolution of 10 metres – with Sentinel-2.

Focusing on vegetation with all its facets

Our satellites provide you with a comprehensive insight into green spaces. What about photosynthesis activity? And how green are our municipalities? You will never lose sight of vegetation.

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Mapping out climate change

What is the impact of climate change on our environment? How does land temperature evolve? And how does drought impact our landscape? Our satellite images shape your view of climate..

How green is your municipality shows you the long-term usage statistics per municipality quickly and easily

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Satellites, the obvious choice

Revealing high-resolution surface Nitrogen Dioxide concentration with machine learning

Monitoring and improving our air quality is essential to protect our public health and safeguard the environment. Terrascope offers a series of air quality maps including a daily NO₂ surface concentration. Discover more about this groundbreaking NO₂ product derived with an advanced machine learning (ML) framework to integrate multi-source datasets.

Continental crop type mapping with openEO

This case explains how you can use openEO to produce continental crop type maps. Discover more about the possibilities, setup and challenges.

Satellites for Nature & Environment applications

Sentinel-1

Day and night. Rain or shine. The reliable Sentinel-1 always delivers usable radar data.

Observe Earth with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-2

Unprecedented insight into what is changing in our environment, from woods to coast and everything in between.

View the vegetation with Sentinel-2

Sentinel-3

Sentinel-3 delivers highly accurate and reliable optical, thermal and altitude data for marine and land use.

Explore Sentinel-3 data

Sentinel-5P

Sentinel-5 Precursor is designed to daily observe and monitor various atmospheric components and air quality.

Explore Sentinel-5P data

PROBA-V

Mini-satellite that monitored our Earth’s surface every day for more than 7 years.

Explore vegetation with PROBA-V

Satellite imagery for a well-balanced environment