Earth Observation

Portugal 2014 with Landsat8

It has been a year on the 11th of February since the launch of Landsat8 satellite. The first images were collected one month after (March 2013) and the mission became operational in May at USGS. After these initial months of operations, Bluecover acquired two mosaics of Portugal: one during dry season of 2013 and one […]

Local Surveillance

Drones for research

The French company Parrot is being well succeeded with its AR.Drone 2.0. It is not a quadricopter camera mount for professionals, but it's much more than just a toy helicopter. Parrot launched the ARdrone.org Open Application programming interface development platform that makes it powerful tool for research.