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

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6504 views 89 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 7733 views 58 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 18300 views 141 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 15929 views 121 likes

Airplane

Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation

07/12/2020 5331 views 82 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 5274 views 35 likes

Monitoring trucks from space

Monitoring trucks and trade from space

01/10/2020 8013 views 73 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 8525 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3830 views 48 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5690 views 82 likes

Emperor penguins

Discovering new penguin colonies from space

05/08/2020 26964 views 162 likes

Parking in a pandemic

09/06/2020 5427 views 61 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 19927 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 10743 views 87 likes

Poland land-cover

Land-cover maps of Europe from the Cloud

20/03/2020 29602 views 90 likes

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

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14712 views 140 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 10171 views 90 likes

Tracing raw materials and their related impacts

Tracing the environmental impacts of supply chains

11/09/2019 5174 views 58 likes

Oostvadersplassen, the Netherlands

Using machine learning for rewilding

10/09/2019 6381 views 70 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 17134 views 146 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12835 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 5357 views 60 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 10157 views 127 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 12485 views 118 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 13083 views 123 likes

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

21/03/2019 19878 views 210 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 6365 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10762 views 89 likes

Shrinking heart

13/02/2019 6794 views 102 likes

Loving big

12/02/2019 4515 views 85 likes

Island love

11/02/2019 7130 views 99 likes

Burn scars near Cape Town

More of Africa scarred by fires than thought

04/02/2019 10590 views 80 likes

Green turns brown

Tackling drought issues for food security

29/11/2018 4302 views 46 likes

Training artificial intelligence

Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainability goals

14/11/2018 5103 views 56 likes

Mapping Mexico’s land cover

Zooming in on Mexico’s landscape

22/10/2018 9888 views 79 likes

Fault line land movement in Indonesia

Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake

05/10/2018 18554 views 106 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 6100 views 93 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 12010 views 95 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7549 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 11594 views 154 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 7328 views 103 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5289 views 111 likes

Shrub removal

Space helps forests regenerate

10/01/2018 3242 views 48 likes

African land cover

Africa, classified

03/10/2017 14063 views 84 likes

Naples relayed via laser

First Sentinel-2B images delivered by laser

12/06/2017 20575 views 95 likes

Algal bloom off Belgian coast

Near-shore phytoplankton bloom captured from space

08/06/2017 6838 views 62 likes

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

24/05/2017 18789 views 102 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7469 views 88 likes

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 10904 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 7024 views 87 likes

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