Monday, 20 October 2025

Timelapses creation within Copernicus Browser

Following this video: Introduction to the CDSE website and Copernicus Browser I learned that the Copernicus Browser allows to directly create timelapses animations from Sentinel data.

I tried with NDWI, that indicates the humidity degree of the surfaces, in a zone of the Piemonte (Italy) region, where I currently live. The Po river is the major river of this zone.

I set the parameters as in the image below: 


 and after a few minutes of tile selections, the following timelapse animation was created:

 
It's not clear to me why the final frames number is quite low, having set a 2016 to 2025 analysis interval with steps of 1 day. 

Apart from that, the result is interesting, since it potentially allows for temporal analysis of natural variations without any major effort.