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ESA's Sentinel-1 is the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.

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Sentinel-1 will aid sea-ice monitoring
Sentinel-1 will provide C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for sea-ice monitoring.
 
  Last update: 7 March 2011 
 
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Mission Requirements Document GMES Sentinel-1Sentinel-1 facts & figures (.pdf)ESA Bulletin 131: Sentinel-1
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