Vista dall’altoGeopolitical analysis from satellite imagery — curated by Piero Boccardohttps://vistadallalto.eu/en-gbThe Po, One Year Onhttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/siccita-po-2026/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/siccita-po-2026/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 itFri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTGaza, six months on: what the satellite sees and reconstruction doesn't tellhttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/gaza-sei-mesi-dopo/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/gaza-sei-mesi-dopo/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.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe boomerang effecthttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/remigrazione-numeri/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/remigrazione-numeri/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 leftMon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTEurope's new radar eyeshttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/sentinel-1-ng-occhi-radar/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/sentinel-1-ng-occhi-radar/What changes with the Next Generation Sentinel-1, and why the continuity of Copernicus radar data is an asset Europe undervaluesFri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Industrial Archipelagohttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/arcipelago-industriale-del-golfo/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/arcipelago-industriale-del-golfo/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 itFri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Chokepoint That Cannot Be Bypassedhttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/stretto-hormuz-collo-di-bottiglia/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/stretto-hormuz-collo-di-bottiglia/The Strait of Hormuz, the three pipelines built to avoid it, and the OGIM data that explain why they only partly succeedTue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Black Sea Strongholdhttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/fortino-mar-nero/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/fortino-mar-nero/Crimea, twelve years after the annexation: what has changed on the peninsula, between Russian construction sites, Ukrainian strikes and new coastal defensesMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe airstrips that changed flagshttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/piste-cambiato-bandiera/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/piste-cambiato-bandiera/How Russia's Africa Corps is settling in, one airstrip at a time, into the outposts left behind by France and the United StatesSun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe archipelago that keeps growinghttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/mar-cinese-meridionale/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/mar-cinese-meridionale/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 looksSat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe European satellite that keeps watching when others go darkhttps://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/bellingcat-iran-sentinel/https://vistadallalto.eu/en/archive/bellingcat-iran-sentinel/How the tool Bellingcat uses to document conflict damage in Iran with Sentinel-1, Copernicus's public radar, works — and why it mattersTue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT