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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

Il Post · 14 August 2026

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 · 12 August 2026

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 · 10 August 2026

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 · 12 June 2026

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 · 8 May 2026

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

Linkiesta · 5 May 2026

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

Work in progress · 4 May 2026

The airstrips that changed flags

How Russia's Africa Corps is settling in, one airstrip at a time, into the outposts left behind by France and the United States

Linkiesta · 3 May 2026

The archipelago that keeps growing

The artificial islands China has built in the South China Sea are visible only from space. Yet in that particular stretch of ocean, contrary to popular belief, Europe's public satellite hardly ever looks

Linkiesta · 25 April 2026

The European satellite that keeps watching when others go dark

How the tool Bellingcat uses to document conflict damage in Iran with Sentinel-1, Copernicus's public radar, works — and why it matters

Linkiesta · 21 April 2026