An Umbra synthetic aperture radar satellite image of Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
An Umbra synthetic aperture radar satellite image of Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
An Umbra synthetic aperture radar satellite image of Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The rainbow road leads to Space Launch Complex 6 (apparently).
A stunning 50cm 8-look @umbra.space SAR capture from 2025-02-16 18:55:33 UTC 🛰️
18.02.2025 11:56 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
Construction activity at Launch Complex 39A's Starship related areas over the past 6 days as captured by @umbra.space satellites.
16.02.2025 21:52 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Location: Mdona Hiera, Maluku, Indonesia
Resolution: 50cm | Number of Looks: 5
Collect Date: Saturday, February 15th, 2025
17.02.2025 18:49 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Finding relevant high resolution SAR imagery from Umbra's Open Data Program can be tricky 🛰️
With this new @bellingcat.com project you can browse all the currently available data in Google Earth📍🌏
github.com/bellingcat/u...
13.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 205 🔁 58 💬 2 📌 2
What a great resource 😍 to find @umbra.space Open SAR Data.
13.02.2025 16:17 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Recently, heavy floods have affected Townsville, Australia. An @umbra.space SAR image captured on Feb 9 shows some effects of the floods from above.
Full image on @soarearth.bsky.social: soar.earth/maps/132711?...
11.02.2025 00:37 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Taken just over two weeks apart, these @umbra.space SAR images show a large amount of work occurring at SpaceX's Launch Complex 39A in preparation for more Starship infrastructure coming to the pad.
10.02.2025 23:49 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Hours before the 2025 National Football League (NFL) Superbowl (Kansas City Chiefs vs Philadelphia Eagles) at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Collect Date: Sunday, February 9th, 2025
Resolution: 50cm | Number of Looks: 4
10.02.2025 18:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Umbrans have landed in London, England, for DGI 2025.
This week, we will tour the area and the London Stadium is our first stop.
Location: Newham, London, England, United Kingdom
Resolution: 50cm | Number of Looks: 5
Collection Date: 02.07.2025
10.02.2025 16:31 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Day 3 of DGI 2025 Joe Morrison (@mouthofmorrison) takes the stage and will join global defense and intelligence leaders to discuss APAC collaboration and exchanging geospatial intelligence for greater regional security.
31.01.2025 16:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We need more pretty things.
An @umbra.space SAR capture of the southern portion of Wenchang Space Launch Site captured on Monday.
29.01.2025 03:52 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
At DGI 2025, Umbra's VP of Mission Solutions, Jason Mallare, will take the stage with global leaders to discuss:
"How Can You Modernise Legacy Assets, Protect Critical Infrastructure and Become More Resilient in Space as the Domain Becomes More Congested and Contested?"
27.01.2025 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A stunning 25cm/pixel @umbra.space SAR capture of Launch Complex 39A from ~11hrs ago.
The image shows more signs that SpaceX is progressing with further Starship work at the pad. More below.
27.01.2025 01:43 — 👍 34 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
An @umbra.space capture caught New Glenn vertical at LC-36 today!
35cm/pixel image captured on 2025-01-10 03:18:06 UTC, just about 90min after the rocket went vertical.
See the next post where I point out how you can see the rocket.
10.01.2025 21:01 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Today is the final day of CES 2025.
Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
A few of the SAR satellite Image Parameters:
∙ Resolution: 50cm
∙ Number of Looks: 8x
∙ Collect Date: January 4th, 2025
10.01.2025 18:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Download Imagery for free: shorturl.at/MNFCb
10.01.2025 02:34 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Grayscale Synthetic Aperture Radar image of Altadena, California. Brightness indicates strength of the returned signal.
Here’s the Umbra image of Altadena in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. Collected 20:52 PST on Jan. 8, 2025. Reprojected so north is up & contrast-stretched. If I’m reading this correctly lighter patches are correlated with damaged buildings.
10.01.2025 01:21 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image of damage from the Palisade Fire.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image of damage from the Palisade Fire.
Radar (SAR) imagery of the Palisade Fire from Umbra. SAR is hard to interpret, but is an invaluable complement to optical imagery in the right hands. From Umbra’s LinkedIn feed: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Data: umbra-open-data-catalog.s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com?prefix=sar-d...
10.01.2025 01:01 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
Palisades Fire | Los Angeles, California, US
Collect Date: 01.08.2025
We extend our thoughts to all those affected. Please stay safe.
Data is freely available for public use through the Umbra Open Data Program. We will continue to update the program as data is collected.
shorturl.at/MNFCb
09.01.2025 23:06 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Resolution: 35cm | Number of Looks: 5x
Collect Date: 01.04.25
08.01.2025 23:52 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CES 2025 arrivals landing at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Resolution: 35cm | Number of Looks 5 | Collect Date: January, 4th 2025
08.01.2025 00:06 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Gordon River 2, Jordan River, British Columbia, Canada
Resolution: 25cm | Number of looks: 3
31.12.2024 19:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wright, Wyoming, United States
Resolution: 35cm | Number of looks: 5
30.12.2024 17:06 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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27.12.2024 21:18 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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