November 2017 – Swiss Data Cube

First scientific publication on the Swiss Data Cube

by sdcadminUncategorized November 30, 2017November 30, 2017No Comments

We are happy to announce that our scientific paper entitled “Building an Earth Observations Data Cube: lessons learned from the Swiss Data Cube (SDC) on generating Analysis Ready Data (ARD)” has been published today in the inaugural issue of Big Earth Data journal. You can find the article at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20964471.2017.1398903 Citation: Giuliani G., Chatenoux B., De Bono …

Urbanization – Basel 2000/2016

by sdcadminUncategorized November 13, 2017November 13, 2017No Comments

The Basel Region (North-western Switzerland) is an economically active region of Switzerland and urbanisation is changing rapidly the landscape of this area. We run the Urbanization algorithm to compare year 2000 and 2016 using Landsat 7 data. We can clearly see important changes in a short period of time over several parts of the region.

Urbanization – Bulle 2000/2016

by sdcadminUncategorized November 10, 2017November 13, 2017No Comments

In recent years, the city of Bulle (in the Fribourg canton) is an economically active region and knows an important urbanization. We used the Swiss Data Cube to try to see the urban expansion of this city. The result below allows comparing year 2000 and 2016. We clearly see the expansion of Bulle (even if it …