Iceland is one of the world's most active volcanic regions. On 14 January, an eruption occurred on the Reykjanes peninsula near the town of Grindavik, which had been evacuated earlier due to increased seismic activity and the threat of a volcanic eruption. This image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites at 13:10 UTC, a couple...

Project results were shared at the 13th Nordic National and Mapping Agencies Meeting on Aerial Photography & LiDAR Scanning in Gävle, Sweden.

The Seoul (Korea) metropolitan area, visible in this image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 3 December 2023, is home to 26 million people.  A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on air quality in the metropolis has revealed that, in 2005, the levels of harmful air pollutants, such as...

The San Bernardo Archipelago, visible in this image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 6 January 2024, is located in the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Colombia.  Consisting of 10 main islands, the archipelago is renowned for its pristine white sand beaches, crystal clear turquoise waters and rich marine...

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has just released its annual climate summary for 2023.These data visualisations, based on CS3 and the EUMETSAT’s Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSISAF) data, illustrate the monthly sea ice extent around Antarctica in 2023. It reached an all-time minimum extent in February 2023 (33%...