(Click image for complete view.) This image, which was caught by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 objective on March 16, 2017, takes us over Barcelona – the 2nd biggest city in Spain. Credit: Contains customized Copernicus Sentinel information (2017), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 objective takes us over Barcelona – the 2nd biggest city in Spain.
On the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, Barcelona inhabits a low plateau along the Mediterranean seaside plain. The city and its red roofings contrast with the forested hills and the sea that surround it.
The popular Avinguda Diagonal opportunity can be seen in the right of the image. The roadway is among Barcelona’s broadest opportunities and cuts the city diagonally in 2, for this reason its name. The circular Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes was suggested to be the town hall in the initial city strategy, however nowadays is utilized mostly as a roundabout.
Dominating the left side of the image are the Garraf Massif mountains, their cliffs reaching the Mediterranean coast. Its acme on the seaside side is La Morella – practically 600 m above water level.
The Llobregat River can be seen getting in the image in the leading left. The river increases in the eastern Pyrenees and streams southeast prior to clearing into the Mediterranean Sea. Before reaching the sea, the river forms a little delta, which utilized to supply a big extension of fertile land however is now mostly urbanised. Barcelona-El Prat airport can be seen to the left of the river. Along the coast, the port of Barcelona, among Europe’s leading 10 biggest container ports, shows up.
Barcelona is house to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – the biggest engineering university in Catalonia. In 2017, the university won ESA’s Small Satellite Challenge and the leading reward at the Copernicus Masters competitors with its Federated Satellite Systems (FSSCat) job. The FSSCat objective includes 2 little CubeSat satellites, each about the size of a shoebox, and will utilize modern double microwave and multispectral optical sensing units.
Ф-sat-1 – an improvement of FSSCat continued among the 2 CubeSats – is set to introduce quickly from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou. It will be the very first experiment to show how expert system can be utilized for Earth observation. Ф-sat-1 will have the capability to filter out less than ideal images so that just functional information are gone back to Earth. This will permit the effective handling of information so that users will have access to prompt details – eventually benefiting society at big.
Ф-sat-1 will obtain a huge variety of images that will permit researchers to find city heat islands, display modifications in greenery and water quality, along with perform experiments on the function of evapotranspiration in environment modification.
