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...
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...
14 July 2016
Sentinel 3A satellite handed over to Eumetsat
... – the marine products. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016) "This handover also puts the EU–ESA–Eumetsat cooperation in Copernicus into full action. While the EU leads Copernicus overall, and ESA coordinates the space component...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... Observations (GEO), a new international organisation for which international data sharing was a key goal. The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite captured the presence of elevated absorbing aerosols – caused by fires – in the atmosphere off the west...
20 November 2015
ESA to monitor plant health from space
... glow, a feat that has never been possible before. FLEX will orbit in tandem with one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, taking advantage of its optical and thermal sensors to provide an integrated package of measurements. ESA's Earth Explorer...
