The Faroe Islands are dominated by glacial landforms, and due to the strong winds, the islands are practically treeless. Múlafossur is a spectacular waterfall on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands, dropping from a 30-meter cliff. The waterfall can be seen as a little white speck where the river in the first south-facing valley from the...

Wallis is an island and coral atoll in the South Pacific with a population of about 11,000 people under the jurisdiction of France.  Most of the residents sustain their livelihoods mainly through agriculture and fishing. Still, the unique location of the island also enables it to play a crucial role in the EU Space Programme. Wallis hosts a...

With the Hungarian EU Presidency beginning today, we have selected a scene from Hungary's most characteristic landscape, the Great Hungarian Plain.  This area is a low-lying sedimentary basin with topography dominated by fluvial landforms of low relief - a vast, flat area. This scene is a collection of landscapes typical for the region: on the...

Nyiragongo, one of the world's most beautiful and active volcanoes, is a large stratovolcano near Lake Kivu at the eastern border of DR Congo with Rwanda in the Virunga National Park. On June 25, 2024, Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured a small volcanic activity.  This is a Sentinel-2 image with a Wildfire visualization custom script. This...

On 23 June 2015, the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite was launched. It was the second Copernicus satellite sent to space, just a little over one year after the launch of Sentinel-1A. Copernicus’ first ‘colour-vision’ mission, Sentinel-2, aimed to improve our capabilities in monitoring land and vegetation cover as well as crop growth,...