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The small eye of Dina, only 20 km (10 mi) in diameter, [1] quickly became well-defined, [4] although it became obscured by the central dense overcast on visible satellite imagery. [1] On January 19, the cyclone slowed as it turned to the west-southwest, after the ridge to its south intensified. [2]
Réunion (/ r iː ˈ juː n j ə n /; French: [la ʁe.ynjɔ̃] ⓘ; Reunionese Creole: La Rényon; known as Île Bourbon before 1848) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France.
The first images from space were taken on the sub-orbital V-2 rocket flight launched by the US on October 24, 1946. Satellite image of Fortaleza.. Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites are mainly of two types: polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously) or geostationary (hovering over the same spot on the equator ).
Spot-5 Satellite Athens as seen by the SPOT 5 satellite in 2002. SPOT (French: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, [1] lit. "Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical Earth imaging satellite system operating from space. It is run by Spot Image, based in Toulouse, France.
The Pléiades system was designed under the French-Italian ORFEO Programme (Optical and Radar Federated Earth Observation) between 2001 and 2003. [2]The Pléiades programme was launched in October 2003 with CNES (the French space agency) as the overall system prime contractor and EADS Astrium as the prime contractor for the space segment.
Spot Image works with a network of more than 30 direct receiving stations handling images acquired by the SPOT satellites. Spot Image collaborates with EU's GMES/Copernicus programme, shares geographic information with the OGC and contributes to the interoperability of web services; with Infoterra Global it continues to offer services for ...
Saint-Leu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cwa) closely bordering on a subtropical highland climate (Cwb).The average annual temperature in Saint-Leu is 19.2 °C (66.6 °F).