Checking out the site at Sodankylä

In the far northern reaches of Finnish Lapland, an ambitious new chapter in Earth observation is unfolding. The European Space Agency, together with the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Finnish industrial partners, is advancing plans to develop a state-of-the-art ‘supersite’ in Sodankylä. The plan is to equip this remote site with an array of new advanced environmental measuring technologies, including a striking high-tech airship carrying sensors to perform regional surveys.

The photograph shows Malcolm Davidson, Head of ESA’s Earth Observation Campaigns section (left), Jouni Pulliainen, Director of the Space and Remote Sensing Research Centre at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (centre), and Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Supersite Principal Investigator from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (right).

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