European Facility For Airborne Research

Are you interested in using drones - Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) - to study water quality? VITO is inviting brief proposals for new demonstration cases within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOCLE project. Successful applicants will have access to a fully-supported one-day observing campaign over their area of interest. You can find more detail including the ...

Imaging spectroscopy from an airborne platform brings a lot of advantages. One of which is the ability to cover larger areas compared to ground measurements and the ability to simulate and validate satellite images.

APEX, the airborne imaging spectrometer developed for ESA and operated by a Swiss Belgian consortium, RSL (University of Zurich) and VITO ...

Sentinel-5P (S-5P) is the first mission of the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme, Copernicus, dedicated to the monitoring of air quality, climate and ozone. The instrument on-board S5-P is the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) nadir-viewing spectrometer. The tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) product, with a spatial resolution of 3.5 x 7 km^{2 ...}