{"id":231785,"date":"2015-07-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"001cc6694e7e7e6237d0fbd91dd68a91"},"modified":"2015-07-31T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T08:00:00","slug":"northern-italy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231785","title":{"rendered":"Northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/07\/northern_italy\/15524936-1-eng-GB\/Northern_Italy_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLakes on the southern side of the Italian Alps are pictured in this early acquisition by the Sentinel-2A satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProcessed using the high-resolution infrared channel of the satellite\u2019s multispectral camera, the image shows healthy vegetation in red, such as the hills and mountains in the upper part of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom the top of the image we see the southern part of Lake Maggiore. Straddling the border of Italy\u2019s Lombardy and Piedmont regions \u2013 with its northern end in Switzerland (not visible) \u2013 the lake covers an area of over 210 sq km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts outlet, the Ticino river, snakes south past Milan\u2013Malpensa Airport at the bottom of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNear the centre of the image is the glacial Lake Varese, appearing lighter blue compared to the other lakes in the image. This demonstrates Sentinel-2\u2019s ability to measure differences in the conditions of inland water bodies \u2013 one of the mission\u2019s main applications along with land cover, agriculture and forestry. &nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2015\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Northern_Italy\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, is a subset of Sentinel-2\u2019s very first acquisition on 27 June 2015, just four days after launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite is in its commissioning phase, which includes calibrating its multispectral imager. But the initial images from its first scan of Earth foreshadow the mission\u2019s land-monitoring applications in areas such as agriculture, the monitoring of inland and coastal waters and land-cover mapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/07\/northern_italy\/15524936-1-eng-GB\/Northern_Italy_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLakes on the southern side of the Italian Alps are pictured in this early acquisition by the Sentinel-2A satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProcessed using the high-resolution infrared channel of the satellite\u2019s multispectral camera, the image shows healthy vegetation in red, such as the hills and mountains in the upper part of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom the top of the image we see the southern part of Lake Maggiore. Straddling the border of Italy\u2019s Lombardy and Piedmont regions \u2013 with its northern end in Switzerland (not visible) \u2013 the lake covers an area of over 210 sq km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts outlet, the Ticino river, snakes south past Milan\u2013Malpensa Airport at the bottom of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNear the centre of the image is the glacial Lake Varese, appearing lighter blue compared to the other lakes in the image. This demonstrates Sentinel-2\u2019s ability to measure differences in the conditions of inland water bodies \u2013 one of the mission\u2019s main applications along with land cover, agriculture and forestry. &nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2015\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Northern_Italy\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, is a subset of Sentinel-2\u2019s very first acquisition on 27 June 2015, just four days after launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite is in its commissioning phase, which includes calibrating its multispectral imager. But the initial images from its first scan of Earth foreshadow the mission\u2019s land-monitoring applications in areas such as agriculture, the monitoring of inland and coastal waters and land-cover mapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}