The main mission requirements of PROBA-V remote-sensing satellite are:
Data and service continuity: filling the gap between the SPOT-VGT and the Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions, with spectral and radiometric performance identical or better than SPOT-VGT.
Spatial resolution: 1 km mandatory, improved Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) is highly desirable: 300 m (VNIR bands), 600 m (SWIR band). Image quality and geometric accuracy, equal to or better than SPOT-VGT.
Provision of daily global coverage of the land masses in the latitudes 35° and 75° North and in the latitudes between 35° and 56° South, with a 90% daily coverage of equatorial zones - and 100% two-daily imaging, during day time, of the land masses in the latitudes between 35° North and 35° South.
PROBA-V principally addresses key observations in the following application domains:
General land use in relation to vegetation cover and its changes
Vegetation behaviour to strong meteorological events (severe droughts) and climate changes (long-term behaviour of the vegetation cover)
Disaster management (detection of burnt areas and water bodies)
Biophysical parameters for model input devoted to water budgets and primary productivity (agriculture, ecosystem vulnerability, etc.).
The minisatellite provides data to the instrument's worldwide user community of scientists and service providers within ESA's Earth Observation Programme. Vital uses of PROBA-V Vegetation data include day-by-day tracking of extreme weather, alerting authorities to crop failures, monitoring inland water resources and tracing the steady spread of deserts and deforestation.
View full image Lena Delta, Russia - PROBA-V takes us over the Lena Delta and the Ust-Lensky Reserve, Russia, with this 100m false colour image.
A unique Arctic landscape where the Lena River, one of Russia's five longest waterways, flows into the Laptev Sea, it forms a unique delta of three million hectares, 6,500 km river branches, more than 30,000 lakes of varying sizes and over 1,500 islands.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2019, produced by VITO.
View full image Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France - PROBA-V takes us over the city of Toulouse in this 100m resolution image taken on 05 July 2017.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2017, produced by VITO.
View full image Drakensberg Park, South Africa - This PROBA-V 100m image of 31 July 2014 shows Drakensberg Park, with the dark parts at the right of the image being shadows cast by mountain ridges. The upper left part shows the Malibamats' o River in Lesotho.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2014, produced by VITO.
View full image Southern Alps, New Zealand - In this May 2018 image, PROBA-V glanced at the snow-capped mountains of the Southern Alps, stretching over 500 km along New Zealand's South Island.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2018, produced by VITO.
View full image Danube Delta, Romania - An example of river sediment transport is given in this PROBA-V 100m image of 1 April 2017, which shows the Danube river flowing into the Black Sea in north-east Romania. The light-blue whirls just off-shore indicate substantial amounts of sediments from the Danube outflow.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2017, produced by VITO.
View full image Hotan, China - PROBA-V captured this remarkable view of Hotan on 20 August 2014, a Chinese oasis town bordered by the vast desert and the Kunlun mountains.
This 100m image (false colour) shows the agricultural areas and two crossing streams that are situated around Hotan; the Black (Karakash) and White (Yurungkash) Jade rivers.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2014, produced by VITO.
View full image Mississippi River Delta - This 100m PROBA-V image, acquired on 6 October 2016, shows the Mississippi Delta along the south coast of Louisiana, USA with its characteristic bird foot pattern.
Also visible, in greenish taints, are large sediment amounts that are transported and deposited by the Mississippi River to continuously change the Delta's shape.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2016, produced by VITO.
View full image Pine Island, Antarctica - This PROBA-V 300m image, from 19 November 2018, shows the Pine Island iceberg located south of the Hudson Mountains on West-Antarctica.
It is one of Antarctica's largest ice streams. It drains 5 – 10% of West-Antarctica's ice sheets and is the continent's fastest melting glacier.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2018, produced by VITO.
View full image Global Synthesis - On this PROBA-V 300 m image, the first signs of the upcoming boreal winter are visible, with snow-covered areas over Canada, the United States of America, eastern Europe, and Siberia.
PROBA-V global composite image produced in 2014.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2014, produced by VITO.
View full image Tenerife, Spain - This false-colour image, acquired by PROBA-V in May 2015, shows the dominant volcano El Teide, on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Copyright: ESA-BELSPO 2015, produced by VITO.
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Visualisation of PROBA-V Data
PROBA-V Timelapse of September 2018-2019
The timelapse is a visualisation of the Earth's land surface dynamics from PROBA-V data that was produced through the Mission Exploitation Platform (MEP). Several features are highlighted, in particular the snow-coverage growth and decline over Asia, Eastern Europe, and North-America and the bright green colours during the North-American and European growing seasons.
