ESA - Sentinel-2 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-2A - 23 June 2015
Sentinel-2B - 7 March 2017
Sentinel-2C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 7367 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3588 views 48 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5339 views 80 likes

Emperor penguins

Discovering new penguin colonies from space

05/08/2020 24659 views 160 likes

Parking in a pandemic

09/06/2020 5197 views 61 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 17789 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 9623 views 85 likes

Poland land-cover

Land-cover maps of Europe from the Cloud

20/03/2020 24736 views 90 likes

Smoke over New South Wales, Australia, from Copernicus Sentinel-3

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14280 views 138 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 9319 views 89 likes

Tracing raw materials and their related impacts

Tracing the environmental impacts of supply chains

11/09/2019 4543 views 56 likes

Oostvadersplassen, the Netherlands

Using machine learning for rewilding

10/09/2019 6001 views 70 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 15678 views 145 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12257 views 125 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 4420 views 59 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 9424 views 126 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 11303 views 117 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 11245 views 123 likes

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

21/03/2019 19250 views 209 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 5945 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10194 views 88 likes

Shrinking heart

13/02/2019 6296 views 102 likes

Loving big

12/02/2019 4230 views 84 likes

Island love

11/02/2019 6639 views 98 likes

Burn scars near Cape Town

More of Africa scarred by fires than thought

04/02/2019 10033 views 79 likes

Green turns brown

Tackling drought issues for food security

29/11/2018 4003 views 44 likes

Training artificial intelligence

Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainability goals

14/11/2018 4667 views 54 likes

Mapping Mexico’s land cover

Zooming in on Mexico’s landscape

22/10/2018 8965 views 78 likes

Fault line land movement in Indonesia

Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake

05/10/2018 17763 views 104 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5778 views 92 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11387 views 94 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7147 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 10688 views 147 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 6794 views 102 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5098 views 111 likes

Shrub removal

Space helps forests regenerate

10/01/2018 3012 views 48 likes

African land cover

Africa, classified

03/10/2017 12422 views 78 likes

Naples relayed via laser

First Sentinel-2B images delivered by laser

12/06/2017 19995 views 95 likes

Algal bloom off Belgian coast

Near-shore phytoplankton bloom captured from space

08/06/2017 6163 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

24/05/2017 15891 views 100 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7080 views 87 likes

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 10590 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 6461 views 87 likes

Brindisi, Italy

A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its firs…

15/03/2017 17327 views 151 likes

Mission control room

Enabling & Support

Orbiting in sunshine

09/03/2017 7326 views 100 likes

Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched

07/03/2017 16893 views 131 likes

Sentinel-2: high-resolution and multispectral

Enabling & Support

Dressed to thrill

03/03/2017 5194 views 62 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-2B launch

03/03/2017 13609 views 91 likes

#Sentinel2Go launch event at ESOC

03/03/2017 12539 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6323 views 75 likes

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