Open satellite imagery and environmental datasets in Copernicus Browser (András Zlinszky)

Earth Observation Summer School 2026 17 Aug 2026 – 21 Aug 2026, Istanbul, Turkey https://opengeohub.org/events/earth-observation-summer-school-2026 Where do you start, if you want to work with satellite imagery? How do you open your first image? Copernicus Browser is an open, free, publicly owned web interface to Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, the data repository and cloud platform of the Sentinel satellite program and Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. Copernicus Browser works like a map browser: you select your location, choose your date, find your image source and start looking at the data. We will learn basics of interpreting Sentinel imagery (no equations, don't worry), and discover various visualizations fit for different use cases. In the next step, we will explore analysis-ready data mosaics and calibrated data products. We will also compare Sentinel imagery to other available data sources in the Browser, such as Landsat imagery and Copernicus Contributing Missions Very High Resolution mosaics. Additionally, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service offers land cover, temperature and soil moisture, vegetation properties and parameters and water surface area and quality. After this overview of the full data offer of Copernicus Browser, we will learn to create analytics ourselves, starting with timelapse .gif-s, continuing to spectral graphs, histograms and quantitative time series datasets. In the next step, we will explore advanced visualization functionality of Copernicus Browser, such as image comparisons, 3-D perspective visualization, elevation profiles, image adjustment and integration of .gpx tracks. Finally, we will dip our toes into creating our own code for custom visualization and analysis. We promise the course will be suitable for beginners, but most professionals will also learn something new.