ESA's Copernicus programme is developing data sets for Earth monitoring, using their Sentinel satellites. Here is a recent image from Sentinel-2 of Sardinia, Italy. All of the red is surprising for such an agricultural island, but in this false-color image shades of red are showing vegetation.


Mona Evans
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