International Day for Biological Diversity
The United Nations proclaimed May 22, 2017 as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. In celebration thereof, PROBA-V brings you this 100 m false-colour image of Ethiopia, captured in April 2017.
Located in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has a fast-growing population and economy, renowned for its coffee production on the fertile Ethiopian Highlands. These highlands are bisected by the Great Rift Valley that starts from the Afar Triangle, a depression with saline lakes, salt mining and important wildlife refuges, that is partly shown in this image.
While the highlands enjoy a more temperate climate than usual so close to the Equator, the recent drought in Eastern Africa reminds us of the importance of protecting the diversity of wildlife and local crop varieties to the effects of climate change and other threats.
SPOT-VEGETATION data collection migration
Dear user,
We are currently in progress of phasing out legacy portals step by step. This means the current data distribution system www.vito-eodata.be will be replaced by a new catalogue, named OSCARS (Open Search Catalogue for Remote Sensing data). A complementary user interface will be updated as well using todays technologies and a modern and intuitive user interface.
All our Copernicus Sentinel collections can already be found using the Terrascope viewer application in which you can browse, view, compare, export the different collections. The next step is to add the entire archive of SPOT-VEGETATION data to the new catalogue system for further exploration in parallel to the existing collection, expected to be exposed around the end of June 2021. The existing SPOT-VEGETATION collection on the www.vito-eodata.be portal will be entirely phased out on September 30, 2021.
In a following step the newly reprocessed PROBA-V Collection 2 data will be ingested as well in the new catalogue. Finally, the www.vito-eodata.be portal will be completely phased out, expected 2022.
In case of any specific questions, please contact our helpdesk at helpdesk@vgt.vito.be.
The VITO team
