October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... and most of the oxygen we breathe Launched on 16 February 2016, the ESA-developed Sentinel-3A satellite, part of the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus programme, orbits Earth at an altitude of about 814 km. Carrying a suite of instruments, it was...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... to the citizens of the EU's and our own member states," said EUMETSAT Director-General Phil Evans. "The Copernicus Sentinel missions the EU has entrusted EUMETSAT to operate complement the missions of our own fleets. Through...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... in the ecosystem is likely, in our view, to acquire talent and to build a scalable subscription-based business model. Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-Band SAR data being used to map floods resulting from Hurricane Florence in Jacksonville, Florida, USA...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... be positioned over the same longitude in their geostationary orbits. The sounding element will also host the Copernicus Sentinel 4 air quality observatory. The first MTG satellites are planned to be launched around 2019/20. The EUMETSAT Polar...
03 March 2016
Sentinel-3A Delivers First Images
...change in the variety of data products provided to users.” Carrying a suite of instruments, Sentinel-3A is arguably the most complex of all the Copernicus Sentinels. It is capable of taking systematic measurements of the Earth's oceans, land, ice and...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... high precision observations of ocean surface topography until 2030+, in full synergy with the marine mission of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite. Joint Polar System (JPS) The EPS-SG programme is expected to be one of the most important sources...
