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Antelope Reef: from coral reef to artificial island in under a year
Two high-resolution SkySat images, from August 2025 and June 2026, show the transformation of a Paracel Islands atoll into new Chinese infrastructure
- Messaggero Veneto
Friuli, one year on
Six PlanetScope comparisons between mid-August 2025 and mid-August 2026, from the Tagliamento river to the Grado lagoon, for a contribution published by Messaggero Veneto
- Il Mattino di Padova
The Piave, one year on
Seven PlanetScope comparisons between mid-August 2025 and mid-August 2026, from the Treviso foothills to San Donà di Piave, for a contribution published by Il Mattino di Padova
- Il Post
The Po, One Year On
Fifteen PlanetScope comparisons, almost always taken on the same day in August in 2025 and 2026, along the river, its tributaries and the glaciers that feed it
- Linkiesta
Gaza, six months on: what the satellite sees and reconstruction doesn't tell
The Board of Peace awards its first contract, a military base, while satellite imagery shows new outposts, an earthen berm over twenty kilometers long, and a corridor cut through the built-up area. A comparison between published open-source sources and an original PlanetScope analysis.
- Linkiesta
The boomerang effect
The remigration policy proposed by the right would carry serious economic costs for Italy: what the numbers actually say about who lives here, and about those who have left
- Linkiesta
Europe's new radar eyes
What changes with the Next Generation Sentinel-1, and why the continuity of Copernicus radar data is an asset Europe undervalues
- Linkiesta
The Industrial Archipelago
Ten PlanetScope images to measure the scale of the Persian Gulf's fossil-fuel apparatus — and of the solar parks that are gradually rising alongside it
- Linkiesta
The Chokepoint That Cannot Be Bypassed
The Strait of Hormuz, the three pipelines built to avoid it, and the OGIM data that explain why they only partly succeed
- Ground Truth
The Black Sea Fortress
Crimea, twelve years after annexation: what has changed on the peninsula, between Russian construction, Ukrainian strikes and new coastal defences
- in lavorazione
The Black Sea Stronghold
Crimea, twelve years after the annexation: what has changed on the peninsula, between Russian construction sites, Ukrainian strikes and new coastal defenses
- Linkiesta
The Runways That Changed Flags
How Russia's Africa Corps has settled, one airstrip at a time, into the bases left behind by France and the United States
- Il Post
The Fire Seen from Orbit
The Monte Faeta wildfire between Lucca and Pisa, documented day by day with PlanetScope and SkySat imagery
- Linkiesta
The Growing Archipelago
The artificial islands China has built in the South China Sea are only visible from satellites. Except that Europe's public satellite, contrary to common assumption, barely looks there
- Linkiesta
The European Satellite That Sees When Others Go Dark
How Bellingcat's tool for documenting conflict damage in Iran works — and why it matters — built on Sentinel-1, Copernicus' public radar