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

Soybean

Measuring nutrition in crops from space

10/10/2023 7793 views 79 likes

Sentinel-5P detected methane plumes

Trio of Sentinel satellites map methane super-emitters

20/09/2023 28448 views 134 likes

Smoke plume from the Litli-Hrútur volcano

Litli-Hrútur eruption seen from space

26/07/2023 15289 views 74 likes

Faenza flood map

Satellites map aftermath of Emilia-Romagna floods

20/07/2023 6293 views 74 likes

Al Wahat al Dakhla Desert, Egypt

Introducing World Cereal

20/04/2023 6633 views 84 likes

10 remarkable Earth facts

18/04/2023 257281 views 2275 likes

Sargassum seaweed

Smelly seaweed bloom heads to Florida

07/04/2023 18595 views 83 likes

EO-WIDGET for CAP compliance

Boosting market traction for agri-monitoring service

15/02/2023 2026 views 48 likes

Osmaniye City, Türkiye, captured by Pléiades Neo

Satellites support impact assessment after Türkiye–Syria ea…

13/02/2023 15714 views 116 likes

Sentinel-2 captures Antarctica’s new iceberg

Giant iceberg breaks away from Antarctic ice shelf

25/01/2023 22081 views 167 likes

Nord Stream leak as captured by Pléiades Neo

Satellites detect methane plume in Nord Stream leak

06/10/2022 17748 views 126 likes

Great Salt Lake in July 2022

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is disappearing

01/08/2022 33225 views 131 likes

France and Spain land-surface temperature

Feeling the heat from space

20/07/2022 13271 views 137 likes

Zaap-C platform

Methane emissions detected over offshore platform in the Gu…

09/06/2022 12243 views 113 likes

Danube Delta

Revealing coastline dynamics of the Danube Delta

24/05/2022 8648 views 72 likes

Oil palm plantations distribution

Tracking agricultural-related deforestation

05/05/2022 6687 views 76 likes

Dwindling waters of Lake Powell

Dwindling water levels of Lake Powell seen from space

11/04/2022 34341 views 116 likes

Highlighting crops with Agriculture Sandbox NL

Monitoring crop health across the Netherlands

08/02/2022 7038 views 112 likes

Bangkok, Thailand

Mapping our human footprint from space

11/11/2021 18562 views 84 likes

Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

09/11/2021 4825 views 99 likes

La Palma as captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

La Palma volcano: How satellites help us monitor eruptions

11/10/2021 27037 views 180 likes

California fires

California continues to burn

15/09/2021 9125 views 102 likes

Sentinel-2C arrives at IABG for testing

Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite

09/08/2021 26998 views 74 likes

Chamoli disaster from space

Satellites reveal cause of Chamoli disaster

14/06/2021 7533 views 104 likes

Peloponnese coastline changes

Monitoring coastal changes in Greece

18/05/2021 8700 views 117 likes

Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China

Glacier avalanches more common than thought

30/04/2021 5478 views 123 likes

Joining forces to address food security

ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more

20/04/2021 6493 views 59 likes

Sermersooq, Greenland

Satellite imagery key to powering Google Earth

15/04/2021 22707 views 112 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 13014 views 101 likes

Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon

Measuring shoreline retreat

29/03/2021 8635 views 149 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 27570 views 202 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 7734 views 95 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 5899 views 86 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 6418 views 56 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 15320 views 140 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 15006 views 121 likes

Airplane

Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation

07/12/2020 4829 views 82 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 4652 views 34 likes

Monitoring trucks from space

Monitoring trucks and trade from space

01/10/2020 7071 views 72 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 7360 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3583 views 48 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5335 views 80 likes

Emperor penguins

Discovering new penguin colonies from space

05/08/2020 24612 views 159 likes

Parking in a pandemic

09/06/2020 5196 views 61 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 17770 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 9610 views 85 likes

Poland land-cover

Land-cover maps of Europe from the Cloud

20/03/2020 24681 views 90 likes

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

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14278 views 138 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 9314 views 89 likes

Tracing raw materials and their related impacts

Tracing the environmental impacts of supply chains

11/09/2019 4537 views 56 likes

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