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 - 5 September 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

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

Sentinel-2

Great Salt Lake in July 2022

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is disappearing

01/08/2022 33735 views 133 likes

France and Spain land-surface temperature

Feeling the heat from space

20/07/2022 13493 views 137 likes

Zaap-C platform

Methane emissions detected over offshore platform in the Gu…

09/06/2022 12527 views 113 likes

Danube Delta

Revealing coastline dynamics of the Danube Delta

24/05/2022 8818 views 72 likes

Oil palm plantations distribution

Tracking agricultural-related deforestation

05/05/2022 6961 views 77 likes

Dwindling waters of Lake Powell

Dwindling water levels of Lake Powell seen from space

11/04/2022 34590 views 117 likes

Highlighting crops with Agriculture Sandbox NL

Monitoring crop health across the Netherlands

08/02/2022 7358 views 113 likes

Bangkok, Thailand

Mapping our human footprint from space

11/11/2021 19676 views 85 likes

Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

09/11/2021 4963 views 99 likes

La Palma as captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

La Palma volcano: How satellites help us monitor eruptions

11/10/2021 27499 views 182 likes

California fires

California continues to burn

15/09/2021 9212 views 102 likes

Sentinel-2C arrives at IABG for testing

Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite

09/08/2021 27624 views 76 likes

Chamoli disaster from space

Satellites reveal cause of Chamoli disaster

14/06/2021 7698 views 105 likes

Peloponnese coastline changes

Monitoring coastal changes in Greece

18/05/2021 8963 views 118 likes

Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China

Glacier avalanches more common than thought

30/04/2021 5625 views 123 likes

Joining forces to address food security

ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more

20/04/2021 6647 views 61 likes

Sermersooq, Greenland

Satellite imagery key to powering Google Earth

15/04/2021 23481 views 113 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 16163 views 101 likes

Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon

Measuring shoreline retreat

29/03/2021 8904 views 151 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 27926 views 202 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 7835 views 95 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6050 views 87 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 6737 views 57 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 16010 views 141 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 15305 views 121 likes

Airplane

Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation

07/12/2020 4951 views 82 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 4810 views 35 likes

Monitoring trucks from space

Monitoring trucks and trade from space

01/10/2020 7329 views 72 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 7654 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3628 views 48 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5419 views 81 likes

Emperor penguins

Discovering new penguin colonies from space

05/08/2020 25251 views 161 likes

Parking in a pandemic

09/06/2020 5249 views 61 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 18173 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 9953 views 86 likes

Poland land-cover

Land-cover maps of Europe from the Cloud

20/03/2020 26063 views 90 likes

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

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14363 views 139 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 9499 views 89 likes

Tracing raw materials and their related impacts

Tracing the environmental impacts of supply chains

11/09/2019 4708 views 56 likes

Oostvadersplassen, the Netherlands

Using machine learning for rewilding

10/09/2019 6105 views 70 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 16202 views 145 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12405 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 4618 views 60 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 9539 views 127 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 11624 views 117 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 11559 views 123 likes

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

21/03/2019 19365 views 209 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 6026 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10306 views 89 likes

Shrinking heart

13/02/2019 6390 views 102 likes

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