12 January 2022Wolf volcano on the island of Isabela, which is one of the Galápagos islands, erupted last Friday (January 7, 2022). The data from Europe’s Copernicus satellite Sentinel-5P that were processed by EOC show significant sulphur dioxide emissions (up to 9,000 tons) at altitudes up to 4 km coming from the eruption. The SO2 cloud is currently spreading westward over the Pacific Ocean. The volcano is the highest summit on Isabela island and the highest mountain of the Galápagos islands. Among other animals, very rare, rose-coloured iguanas, of which only a few specimens exist, live on the slopes of this volcano.
15 December 2021A team of students from the University of Würzburg's international Eagle master's program has won this year's DLR Copernicus Masters Challenge. With their UrbanSens concept, the prize winners aim to provide better living conditions in cities by deriving high-resolution information on temperature and air quality, among other things, from satellite data and making it available to the general public. Hot summers and poor air quality are already claiming many lives in major European cities. The proposed application therefore convinced the jury members from the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Stadtwerke München, BayWa, the University of Environmental Medicine Augsburg, ESA and DLR.
18 November 2021An EOC-led consortium of 15 European partners was commissioned by the Copernicus Climate Change Service to generate for two-and-a-half more years time series of data on atmospheric ozone, aerosol particles and the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane. This satellite-collected data allows systematic, global monitoring as well as regional comparisons.
12. November 2021Flood disasters require rapid intervention by crisis response teams and rapid information about affected areas. This is now provided by a freely available flood service developed for the European Commission in a consortium with the participation of the EOC.
12. November 2021On November 11, 2021, the Society of Friends of DLR (GvF) awarded the Manfred Fuchs Prize to Dr. Pablo d'Angelo from the EOC. The DLR scientist earned the GvF award with his innovative development and continuous improvement of the "CATENA Multistereo" processor and its commercially successful use in industry for over 10 years.
27 September 2021 On Sunday, September 19 at 15.12 o’clock local time (14:12 UTC), Cumbre Vieja, a volcano located in El Paso municipality on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, started to erupt. As soon as eruption began, Europe’s Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) satellite detected and recorded the resulting sulphur dioxide (SO2) cloud forming over the islands The S5P measurements are continuously processed at EOC and thereby constantly reveal the volcanic emissions as they evolve.