Lake Viroi near Gjirokastër in Albania, captured by Satellogic, shrunk dramatically due to climate change (Photo courtesy of Satellogic).

Lake Viroi near Gjirokastër in Albania, captured by Satellogic, shrunk dramatically due to climate change.

With persistent remote sensing monitoring, Earth Observation company Satellogic assessed that the water level in Lake Viroi near Gjirokastër in Albania has shrunk by nearly 94% in the past 18 months.

The 17.5ha Viroi Lake is a natural miracle and is situated 3 km far from Gjirokastër city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lack of tourists left this city, with Ottoman architecture, truly authentic and well-preserved with amazing views.

Satellogic is a space company that builds and operates the first scalable, fully automated high-resolution Earth Observation satellite constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The platform, Aleph-1, consists of 300 spacecrafts and will have the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, providing accessible and affordable solutions for customers.

Like Planet and BlackSky LEO satellite operators, Satellogic is targeting patented satellite imaging applications in fields such as disaster response, oil and gas prospecting, infrastructure monitoring, forestry and agricultural crop assessment.

Satellogic’s current fleet can cover an area of more than 1.5 million square miles, or 4 million square kilometers, per day with high-resolution imagery.

The company was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has a satellite assembly facility in Montevideo, Uruguay, a R&D facility in Córdoba, Argentina, a data technology center in Barcelona, Spain, a product development center in Tel Aviv, Israel and business development centers in Miami, USA and Beijing in China.