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

Sentinel-2C arrives at IABG for testing

Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite

09/08/2021 28259 views 76 likes

Chamoli disaster from space

Satellites reveal cause of Chamoli disaster

14/06/2021 8480 views 109 likes

Peloponnese coastline changes

Monitoring coastal changes in Greece

18/05/2021 9870 views 120 likes

Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China

Glacier avalanches more common than thought

30/04/2021 6367 views 123 likes

Joining forces to address food security

ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more

20/04/2021 7108 views 61 likes

Sermersooq, Greenland

Satellite imagery key to powering Google Earth

15/04/2021 25962 views 114 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 18730 views 102 likes

Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon

Measuring shoreline retreat

29/03/2021 9680 views 152 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 28925 views 203 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 8245 views 95 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6553 views 89 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 7851 views 58 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 18582 views 141 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 16020 views 121 likes

Airplane

Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation

07/12/2020 5351 views 82 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 5326 views 35 likes

Monitoring trucks from space

Monitoring trucks and trade from space

01/10/2020 8068 views 74 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 8602 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3901 views 48 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5723 views 82 likes

Emperor penguins

Discovering new penguin colonies from space

05/08/2020 27252 views 162 likes

Parking in a pandemic

09/06/2020 5452 views 61 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 20128 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 10802 views 87 likes

Poland land-cover

Land-cover maps of Europe from the Cloud

20/03/2020 29925 views 90 likes

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

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14837 views 140 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 10236 views 90 likes

Tracing raw materials and their related impacts

Tracing the environmental impacts of supply chains

11/09/2019 5241 views 58 likes

Oostvadersplassen, the Netherlands

Using machine learning for rewilding

10/09/2019 6417 views 70 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 17235 views 146 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12892 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 5480 views 60 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 10222 views 127 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 12607 views 118 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 13217 views 123 likes

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

21/03/2019 19939 views 211 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 6415 views 85 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10813 views 90 likes

Shrinking heart

13/02/2019 6851 views 102 likes

Loving big

12/02/2019 4548 views 85 likes

Island love

11/02/2019 7183 views 100 likes

Burn scars near Cape Town

More of Africa scarred by fires than thought

04/02/2019 10679 views 81 likes

Green turns brown

Tackling drought issues for food security

29/11/2018 4319 views 46 likes

Training artificial intelligence

Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainability goals

14/11/2018 5133 views 56 likes

Mapping Mexico’s land cover

Zooming in on Mexico’s landscape

22/10/2018 9949 views 79 likes

Fault line land movement in Indonesia

Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake

05/10/2018 18632 views 106 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 6139 views 93 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 12074 views 96 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7579 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 11672 views 155 likes

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