Satellite answers for your fields, forests and towns

Check farmland before buying it: map layer

Vegetation (NDVI) True colour

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An agri-investment fund, for example one based in Germany, is evaluating arable land in South Moravia and wants an independent view of how productive the fields have been and how often drought hit, without relying only on the seller's yield figures.

Show how vegetation on the farmland east of Znojmo compared between the 2022, 2024 and 2026 growing seasons, and how dry those years were.

Vegetation layers for each season, a card comparing vegetation and rainfall with the 1991–2020 normal, topsoil data, and a PDF for the investment committee.

Triage crop claims after a hailstorm: map layer

Vegetation (NDVI) True colour

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After a summer hailstorm, a crop insurer receives a batch of claims from vineyards and fields and wants to decide which to inspect first.

Where did vegetation drop after the hailstorm on 18 June around Břeclav and Valtice?

Vegetation layers from just before and just after the storm, a card showing where vegetation dropped sharply, and rainfall for the storm days.

Map storm damage in mountain forests: map layer

True colour Burned areas (NBR) Radar (Sentinel-1)

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After a windstorm, a forest enterprise needs a quick overview of where stands were flattened, so it can plan salvage logging before bark beetles move in. Radar still works when it is cloudy.

Where did last week's storm knock down forest in the Vysoké Tatry between Štrbské Pleso and Tatranská Lomnica?

NBR damage layers before and after the storm, a radar change layer if it is cloudy, and a card with the share of the area where vegetation dropped sharply.

Find where Prague's greenery is stressed: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI) Water (NDWI) Surface temperature

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A city environment department or a district office (městská část) looks after parks, lawns and street trees. After a dry summer it wants to know where vegetation is stressed, which lawns dried out and where to water or replant, and where surfaces stay dry or hot and rainwater could be held back.

Around Stromovka, Letná and the Vltava bend in Prague, where is vegetation weakest this August, which lawns have dried out, and where could rainwater be retained?

A vegetation layer for August with the weakest areas marked, a water layer showing the river and wet surfaces, a coarse 1 km heat layer for the whole city, and a card with summer rainfall and the elevation of low spots.

Check how full the fishponds are: map layer

Water (NDWI) True colour Radar (Sentinel-1)

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A fish farm managing dozens of ponds wants to see which ponds have shrunk compared with last year before it decides on stocking and water releases.

Are the fishponds around Třeboň holding less water this September than last September?

A water layer for this September and a card with the change against last year, using radar when it is cloudy.

Screen solar park sites: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI)

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A solar developer has three candidate sites and needs a first comparison of terrain and current land use before paying for detailed studies.

Compare terrain and current land use for candidate sites near Komárno, Štúrovo and Levice.

A card comparing elevation at each site and true-colour and NDVI imagery of current land use. Solar yield still comes from PVGIS or site data.

Map a flood from radar, then plan for the next one: map layer

Radar (Sentinel-1) True colour Water (NDWI)

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Storm Boris brought record river levels to northern Moravia in September 2024 and flooded much of Krnov; Copernicus mapped more than 56,000 hectares of flooding across seven countries. A municipality, a regional crisis staff or an insurer wants to see which areas were under water, even under cloud, and how many residents sit in the floodplain.

Show where the Opava floodplain around Krnov was flooded in mid-September 2024 compared with early September, how many people are in it, and how heavy rainfall extremes are changing in the catchment.

A radar layer for 3 and 15 September that sees through cloud, a true-colour image and a water layer after the flood, a card with exposed population, a heavy-rainfall and climate-projection card for the catchment, and a PDF report for the insurer.

Map a forest fire scar, then track the recovery: map layer

Burned areas (NBR) True colour Vegetation (NDVI)

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The July 2022 fire in Bohemian Switzerland burned more than 1,000 hectares on the Czech side, in stands of bark-beetle-killed spruce, and is one of the most serious forest fires in Czech history. Park rangers, foresters and civil-protection planners want to see the scar, how the forest is regrowing and where dead spruce raises the risk of the next fire.

Show the burn scar near Hřensko between June and September 2022, how vegetation looks there this summer, and how hot and dry the summers around the park have been.

A burn-index layer before and after the fire, a true-colour image of the scar, a vegetation layer for this summer that shows the regrowth, and a card with hot days and the drought index to check the dead-spruce stands before the fire season.

Know where and when to sample a reservoir bloom: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI)

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In December 2025 a winter cyanobacterial bloom turned the water of the Lipno reservoir green; the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences reported it and confirmed it with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery. A water utility or reservoir operator wants to decide where and when to send sampling teams. Satellites complement sampling: they show where the water colour changed, not toxins or species.

Where on the Lipno reservoir did the water turn green between 10 and 18 December 2025, and where should we take samples first?

True-colour images from 10 and 18 December, where the green water appears in the main basin near Frymburk, and a vegetation-index layer that picks up surface scum, so sampling can start where the colour changed. The app has no chlorophyll product, so concentrations still come from the samples.

See what a flash flood left behind: map layer

True colour Radar (Sentinel-1)

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On 29 October 2024 an extreme rainfall event (DANA) flooded the Valencia region in Spain; Copernicus mapped more than 53,000 hectares as affected. The Sentinel archive shows mud-laden water at the Albufera lagoon and offshore in the days after.

The kind of question: where did the October 2024 flash flood leave water and mud around Valencia compared with a clear day before?

The same approach works for floods in the covered area: true-colour images before and after, a radar layer that sees through cloud, and a PDF report. Here the 31 October image is partly cloudy, which is why radar matters.

See the scar of Europe's largest recent wildfire: map layer

True colour Burned areas (NBR)

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The Evros fire in north-eastern Greece started on 19 August 2023 and burned until early September. Copernicus mapped about 81,000 hectares by 29 August, including Dadia forest, the largest forest fire in Europe in many years.

The kind of question: where did the Evros fire burn between early August and mid-September 2023?

The same approach maps fires in the covered area: true-colour images before and after, a burned-area (NBR) layer and a card with the burned area for the report. Before the season, a vegetation and dryness check can flag the riskiest stands.

Watch an eruption's lava cover a coast: map layer

True colour Radar (Sentinel-1)

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The Cumbre Vieja eruption on La Palma lasted from 19 September to 13 December 2021. Copernicus mapped lava over more than 1,200 hectares, and more than a thousand buildings were destroyed or damaged.

The kind of question: where did the lava flows reach between August 2021 and January 2022?

True-colour images before and after show the lava field, and a radar layer adds a view that works through cloud and smoke. The same approach applies to landslides and other ground changes in the covered area.

See a fire scar next to the suburbs: map layer

True colour Burned areas (NBR)

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A wildfire that began on 31 July 2026 near Psatha and Porto Germeno in West Attica burned more than 10,000 hectares and destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes, according to Copernicus and the Hellenic Fire Service. Copernicus activated rapid mapping as EMSR909.

The kind of question: which areas around Porto Germeno burned between 28 July and 12 August 2026?

The same approach serves wildland-urban fires in the covered area: true-colour images before and after and a burned-area (NBR) layer.

Verify a borrower's drought-hit harvest: map layer

Vegetation (NDVI) True colour

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An agricultural lender is asked to defer loan payments because a farm in southern Slovakia lost its crop to drought. The loan officer wants to see whether vegetation really fell behind and whether rainfall was below normal.

Did crops around Dunajská Streda on Žitný ostrov do worse this July than last July, and was it drier than usual?

A vegetation layer for this July and a card with the change against last July, the rainfall deficit and the drought index.

Document forest cover since 2020 for EUDR: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI) Burned areas (NBR)

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From 30 December 2026, a large or medium-sized furniture maker buying roundwood from Czech suppliers has to document under the EU Deforestation Regulation that the source forests were not cleared after 31 December 2020. The buyer draws the supply area on the map.

For the forest area I've drawn near Žďár nad Sázavou, compare summer 2020 with this summer and show where forest cover was lost.

True-colour layers for 2020 and today, a card with the share of the area showing a strong vegetation drop (measured over the rectangle around your drawing), and a PDF that supports the due-diligence file. It is not a compliance determination.

See how dry your region is this year: map layer

Vegetation (NDVI) True colour

no vegetationvery dense

A water company on sandy, drought-prone soils needs evidence for limiting irrigation withdrawals and for its annual report.

How does rainfall on Záhorie between Malacky and Senica since March compare with the 1991–2020 normal, and where is it driest?

A rainfall map of the region, a card comparing this season with the normal, the drought index and a monthly chart.

Screen a plant site for heat and heavy rain: map layer

True colour Surface temperature

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An industrial property insurer, for example one based in Germany, is underwriting a factory in Slovakia and wants a documented view of local heat and heavy-rain exposure, today and under future climate scenarios.

How many days above 30 °C and how many days with more than 30 mm of rain has the industrial zone in Nitra had since 2000, and what do projections say for 2050?

A card with hot days and heavy-rain days over time, the projected change under two emission scenarios, and the site's elevation.

Plan small hydro output for the coming months: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI)

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An operator of small hydro plants plans maintenance and sales around whether rainfall will be normal in the next few months.

Is the upper Hron around Brezno heading into a drier than normal autumn, and how did runoff compare in the last three years?

A seasonal rainfall outlook map, the drought index, and an ERA5 chart of runoff in recent years against the normal.

Track progress on a road build: map layer

True colour Built-up (NDBI) Radar (Sentinel-1)

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A bank financing a road contractor and the road authority both want an independent monthly view of where earthworks and paving have advanced. Radar sees ground changes in any weather.

How much has our road construction site near Litomyšl changed since spring?

Radar layers for spring and now, a built-up change card along the route, and a true-colour layer of the current state.

Follow the reclamation of a former mine: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI) Water (NDWI)

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A mining company and the regional authority report on how fast a former open-pit lignite mine is turning into lakes and green land.

How have water and vegetation on the reclaimed mine areas around Sokolov changed since 2019?

True-colour layers for 2019 and this year, plus a card with the change in vegetation and water across the area.

Confirm an EU-funded project was built: map layer

True colour Water (NDWI) Vegetation (NDVI)

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A grant authority and a municipality need evidence that an EU-funded floodplain restoration with new wetlands and retention ponds exists and holds water, without a site visit.

Show the new wetland and retention ponds along the Morava near Hodonín, before construction in 2021 and today.

True-colour layers for 2021 and today, a water layer, and a change card, ready to export as a PDF for the project file.

Fire-risk briefing on request for civil protection: map layer

True colour Surface temperature

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During a hot, dry spell, the fire service and civil protection office want one view of active fires, today's weather and how dry the season has been, to decide on patrols and fire bans.

Are there any fires around Bohemian Switzerland right now, and how dry and windy is it there today?

Fire detections from the last 24 hours, counted per grid cell on the map, a card with today's humidity and wind, the drought index and this summer's hot days.

Climate-risk figures for CSRD reporting: map layer

True colour NO₂

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A large automotive group in scope of the CSRD, for example one headquartered in Germany, describes the physical climate risks of its Czech and Slovak plants in its sustainability report, and smaller suppliers get the same questions in customer questionnaires. Both need consistent, sourced numbers.

For our plants in Plzeň and Trnava, compare hot days and heavy-rain days since 1991, the projected change by 2050, and the local NO₂ level.

A card per site with heat and heavy-rain trends and projections, an NO₂ satellite layer plus station counts and averages, all in one PDF.

Compare sites for a new warehouse: map layer

True colour Built-up (NDBI)

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A logistics developer choosing between sites for a distribution centre in eastern Slovakia wants to compare winter conditions, terrain and the nearby labour pool.

Compare snow and frost days, terrain and population within 20 km for sites near Košice airport and in Prešov.

A card comparing snow, frost days, elevation and nearby population, plus a built-up layer showing existing industrial areas.

Fact-check a hottest-summer claim: map layer

True colour Surface temperature

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A regional newsroom wants to check whether this was the hottest summer on record in Brno and illustrate the story with a map of the hottest districts.

Was summer 2026 in Brno hotter than any summer since 1991, and which parts of the city were hottest?

A chart of summer temperatures by year, the number of tropical days, and a 1 km surface-temperature map of the city, exportable as a PDF.

Prepare a field survey of a castle site: map layer

True colour Vegetation (NDVI) Radar (Sentinel-1)

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An archaeology institute or a monument-care office is preparing a field survey of a castle and the hill it stands on. Before going out, the team wants landscape context, vegetation anomalies around the hill that can hint at buried structures, and how the site and its surroundings have changed over the years.

Show Spiš Castle and the land around it this summer, compare it with summer 2020, and show where vegetation in the surrounding fields looks unusual.

True-colour images for 2020 and today, a vegetation layer and a radar view of the surroundings, and a card with the elevation of the hill. At 10 m resolution Sentinel-2 shows the castle complex and its surroundings, not individual walls, so it is a starting point for the field survey.