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\nSnow blankets much of this eastern part of Canada\u2019s Saskatchewan province, in this 28 November 2015 image taken by ESA\u2019s technology-testing Proba-V minisatellite.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Saskatchewan River can be seen flowing into Tobin Lake in the upper-left part of this 100 m-resolution image.\n<\/p>\n
\nLaunched on 7 May 2013, Proba-V<\/a> is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n \nIts main camera\u2019s continent-spanning 2250 km swath width collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands at 300 m resolution and down to 100 m resolution in its central field of view.\n<\/p>\n \nVITO, the Flemish institute for technological research, processes and distributes Proba-V data to users. VITO has produced an online gallery<\/a> highlighting some of the mission\u2019s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.\n<\/p>\n \nNext month sees a major symposium devoted to the minisatellite and its global output, taking place at Ghent in Belgium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \nSnow blankets much of this eastern part of Canada’s Saskatchewan province, in this 28 November 2015 image taken by ESA’s technology-testing Proba-V minisatellite.\n<\/p>\n \nThe Saskatchewan River can be seen flowing into Tobin Lake in the upper-left part of this 100 m-resolution image.\n<\/p>\n \nLaunched on 7 May 2013, Proba-V<\/a> is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n \nIts main camera’s continent-spanning 2250 km swath width collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands at 300 m resolution and down to 100 m resolution in its central field of view.\n<\/p>\n \nVITO, the Flemish institute for technological research, processes and distributes Proba-V data to users. VITO has produced an online gallery<\/a> highlighting some of the mission’s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n