These satellite images were made to visualize the Aru Co glacier avalanche. Some of them were used in these blog posts: Séries Temporelles (2016, August 25) Sentinel-2A captures a giant ice avalanche in Tibet. http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/multitemp/?p=8294 Séries Temporelles (2016, August 25) Sentinel-2A (and Landsat-8) capture a giant ice avalanche in Tibet http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/multitemp/?p=8327 Files description: File 2016-07-21_S2.tif: Sentinel-2A image of the Aru Co glacier avalanche acquired on 21-Jul-2016 (4 days after the event). RGB composite of bands B4,B3,B2 scaled to bytes between 0 and 0.5 from level 1C product (orthorectified top-of-atmosphere reflectances). Format: Geotiff, WGS 84 / UTM zone 44N. File 2016-06-24_L8mos.tif: Landsat-8 image of the Aru Co area acquired on 24-Jun-2016 (23 days before the event). RGB composite of bands B4,B3,B2 scaled to bytes between 0 and 0.5 from level 1C product (orthorectified top-of-atmosphere reflectances). Format: Geotiff, WGS 84 / UTM zone 44N. File anim.gif: animated sequence of both images using the lowest resolution image (Landsat-8) File diff_S2minusL8_band3.tif: difference between the band 3 of the 2016-07-21 Sentinel-2A image and the 2016-06-24 Landsat-8 image after a nearest neighbour resampling of the Sentinel-2 image to the same resolution as the Landsat-8 image (30 m). 2016-07-25_S1.tif : Sentinel-1 image of the Aru Co glacier avalanche acquired on 25-Jul-2016 (8 days after the event). VV co-polar band, ascending orbit. The images was pre-processed to backscatter coefficient in decibels after thermal noise removal, radiometric calibration and terrain correction. 2016-07-25_S1.tif : Sentinel-1 image of the Aru Co glacier avalanche acquired on 25-Jul-2016 (8 days after the event). VV co-polar band, ascending orbit. The image was pre-processed to backscatter coefficient in decibels after thermal noise removal, radiometric calibration and terrain correction. 2016-07-01_S1.tif : Sentinel-1 image of the Aru Co glacier avalanche acquired on 07-Jul-2016 (10 days before the event). VV co-polar band, ascending orbit. The image was pre-processed to backscatter coefficient in decibels after thermal noise removal, radiometric calibration and terrain correction. 2016-07-21-01_S1_diff_smoothed_Lee.tif : difference between both Sentinel-1 images after applying a refined Lee filter on the radar intensities Spatial extent of all the images in WGS 84 UTM 44N and lon/lat coordinates : Upper Left ( 602260.000, 3777670.000) ( 82d 6'32.64"E, 34d 8' 5.67"N) Lower Left ( 602260.000, 3755030.000) ( 82d 6'23.08"E, 33d55'50.74"N) Upper Right ( 640720.000, 3777670.000) ( 82d31'33.86"E, 34d 7'49.56"N) Lower Right ( 640720.000, 3755030.000) ( 82d31'20.72"E, 33d55'34.75"N)

The Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data are distributed by the European Space Agency and the Copernicus programme. The Landsat-8 data are distributed by the United States Geological Survey.