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Nicaragua, Central America

16 October 2018

This week's 100m Proba-V image, aims to raise awareness for World Food Day 2018, and shows the pacific coastline of Nicaragua and Lake Managua.

Desert locust monitoring

02 October 2018

This week's 100m Proba-V image shows how satellite data can help monitor desert locust, by creating dynamic greenness maps to highlight areas in need of locust surveying.

Sydney, Australia

25 September 2018

This week's 100m Proba-V image shows the Australian city of Sydney in false-colour.

Hurricane Florence, North Carolina

18 September 2018

This 1 km Proba-V image captures Hurricane Florence over North Carolina on 15 September 2018, a day after the category one storm made landfall in the United States.

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

10 September 2018

In this week's Proba-V 100m image, acquired in late July, we see the beautiful Yucatán peninsula that separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico and the centre of Mayan civilization.

Shishr, Oman

03 September 2018

In March 2018, Proba-V captured this beautiful 100m image of the confluence of wadis, or valleys, in the Dhofar region of Oman.

Gansu-Zhangye-Gaotai, China

28 August 2018

This 100 m Proba-V image from 4 June 2018 shows the city of Zhangye on the Heihe River in China. This area, part of China's second-largest river basin, greatly aids agriculture.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

20 August 2018

This week's Proba-V false-colour image shows us the island of Hispaniola and the Southern part of the Dominican Replublic in the Caribbean.

Europe's heat wave from space

14 August 2018

These Proba-V 100 m images of 7 August 2017 and 6 August 2018 show there is a clear difference in vegetation color after the heatwave over Europe.

Lake Afrera, Ethiopia

07 August 2018

This Proba-V 100 m image of 11 February 2018, shows Lake Afrera, a hypersaline lake located in the Danakil Depression in Northern Ethiopia.

Australia

30 July 2018

This week's Proba-V 100m resolution image shows Australia, a country with a large ecological footprint and home to a diverse range of habitats and unique biota.

Valencia, Spain

24 July 2018

This week's Proba-V image from 27 June 2018, shows the city of Valencia, which is currently hosting the IGARSS Remote Sensing Symposium.

France, Croatia and Belgium

17 July 2018

This week's Proba-V image shows cloud free images of the World cup winning country of France, runners up Croatia and third placed Belgium.

Cairo, Egypt

10 July 2018

This week Proba-V takes us over Cairo, the capital of Egypt and one of the most populated areas in the world, in this 100m image of 19 May 2018.

Aral Sea, Kazakhstan - Recovery of the Island Sea

03 July 2018

This week's Proba-V image comparison shows the gradual Southern Aral Sea increase from being nearly dry to having a substantial size again.

Amur and Ussuri Rivers

26 June 2018

This week's Proba-V 100m image shows both the Ussuri River and Amur River, the tenth longest in the world, which forms part of the border between the Russian Far East and northeastern China.

Tropical cyclone Mekunu

19 June 2018

In this image from 23 May 2018, Proba-V spotted tropical Cyclone Mekunu as it hit and flooded Socotra Island, before making landfall on the Arabian peninsula, near Salalah, Oman on 25 May.

Moscow, Russia

12 June 2018

The city of Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation, is highlighted in cyan in this false-colour 100 m Proba-V image from 16 August 2017.

The Bahamas

06 June 2018

The false-colour 100 m image of 20 March 2018 shows part of the Bahamas archipelago, which has the third most extensive coral reef system in the world.

Rhine and Scheldt delta, Belgium

29 May 2018

To highlight the updcoming Proba-V symposium on 29-31 May in Ostend, this weeks 100m image covers Belgium and its neighbouring countries.

Nicaragua, Central America

Desert locust monitoring

Sydney, Australia

Hurricane Florence, North Carolina

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Shishr, Oman

Gansu-Zhangye-Gaotai, China

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Europe's heat wave from space

Lake Afrera, Ethiopia

Australia

Valencia, Spain

France, Croatia and Belgium

Cairo, Egypt

Aral Sea, Kazakhstan - Recovery of the Island Sea

Amur and Ussuri Rivers

Tropical cyclone Mekunu

Moscow, Russia

The Bahamas

Rhine and Scheldt delta, Belgium

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