PROBA-V, ready to close its eyes

The end of a beautiful mission. When the PROBA-V mission was launched in 2013, we knew that there was going to be an inevitable end to the mission. PROBA-V was one of the last European satellites that was launched without any propulsion, resulting in a decrease in overpass time.

While the operational lifetime of the global PROBA-V mission already ended on 30 June 2020, the vegetation instrument remained capturing the European and African land mass in experimental mode. As already mentioned in previous communications, we sadly have to reconfirm the closure of PROBA-V’s eyes on the 31st of October 2021.

However, there is good news as well. We still have new datasets coming up in 2022! We are reprocessing the entire global PROBA-V archive (16 October 2013 – 30 June 2020) as we speak. This Collection 2 dataset will contain quite some important product and quality upgrades. More details about this reprocessing campaign can be found on the PROBA-V website.

In case of any specific questions, please contact our helpdesk at helpdesk [at] vgt.vito.be (helpdesk[at]vgt[dot]vito[dot]be).

The VITO team
 

PROBA-V's companion satellite launched succesfully

The PROBA-V CubeSat Companion (PVCC) was launched with a Vega launcher from the ESA launch base.

Phase out of PROBA-V Collection 1

Following the release of the improved PROBA-V Collection 2 data, we remind you that the PROBA-V Collection 1 will be phased out from March 29th, 2023.

Release of PROBA-V Collection 2

Today marks the release of the highly anticipated new collection of PROBA-V data, namely Collection 2 (C2) after almost a year of processing.

Changes in the PROBA-V NDVI S10 TOC 300 m time series layer

The PROBA-V S10 TOC 300 m NDVI (V3) layer was applying an additional mask on waterbodies instead of returning the actual proba-v ndvi.

PROBA-V Collection 2 Reprocessing Campaign

The PROBA-V Collection 2 reprocessing campaign is finished!

PROBA-V Level-3 TOC-NDVI Data

PROBA-V Level-3 TOA Data

PROBA-V Level-3 TOC Data

PROBA-V Level-2 Data

PROBA-V Level-1 Data

PROBA-V, ready to close its eyes

The end of a beautiful mission. When the PROBA-V mission was launched in 2013, we knew that there was going to be an inevitable end to the mission.

SPOT-VEGETATION data collection migration

We are currently in progress of phasing out legacy portals step by step.