By Dean Murray via SWNS
Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak, has seen its first snowfall after one of the longest periods without snow since records began 130 years ago.
The European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured a satellite image of Mount Fuji’s iconic snowcap on November 7, a day after snow was first spotted by the Japan Mereological Agency’s Shizuoka branch.
Sentinel-2 carries a high-resolution multispectral imager to deliver optical images from the visible to the shortwave-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Data collected from Sentinel-2 are used for a wide range of applications, including precision farming, water quality monitoring and natural disaster management.
