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Europe Under Snow
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 14, 2005 Spring gets off to an unseasonal start across Europe: this Envisat image from last week shows the continent covered by snow all the way down from Sweden down to Italy. The image was acquired on the first Saturday of the month, at the end of a week of snowfalls across the continent and some near record low temperatures. In particular there was a record cold snap in the Netherlands: the temperature dropped overnight to �20.7�C, unprecedented for the month of March. Many air flights were cancelled all over Europe and numerous schools were closed in France and the UK. In Italy, farmers estimated that some �650 million of damage has been caused to their crops by the cold spell. Rome suffered its coldest March day for 18 years while in the north of the country police advised that only essential journeys should be made. In Spain, both Madrid and Barcelona were blanketed by snow. The cold snap was the coldest for this time of year for the last three decades or more. The one country the snows did not extend to is Portugal, which is currently undergoing a serious winter drought. The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) aboard Envisat acquired this image on 5 March 2005. This Reduced Resolution Mode image has a spatial resolution of 1200 metres and a swath of 1283 kilometres. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Envisat SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Earth Observation News - Suppiliers, Technology and Application
New Legislation Initiated To Support Commercial Remote Sensing Industry
New York NY (SPX) Jan 11, 2006The importance of remotely sensed data and technologies to support natural disasters has prompted attention and action in Washington. New initiatives and legislation authorizing appropriations to the remote sensing industry will be discussed at Strategic Research Institute's U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Industry conference, scheduled for February 9-10, 2006 in Washington D.C. |
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