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Copernicus 20 years on21 June 2018
Copernicus 20 years on21 June 2018 This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe’s Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth...
Sentinel-3 flies tandem19 June 2018
Sentinel-3 flies tandem19 June 2018 The key to monitoring Earth’s changing environment and to guaranteeing a consistent stream of satellite data to improve our daily lives is to take the same measurements over the course of decades. But how do you know that measurements from successive...
Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk29 May 2018 In what the UN describes as the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis, almost 700 000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017. With the Bangladesh government proposing a vulnerable low-lying island as a relo...
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Submit your ideas!Offering prizes worth over €600 000, the Copernicus Masters competition is still open for submissions until 30 June
Sentinel-2 helps farmersThe unprecedented views of Earth provided by Sentinel-2 lead precision farming into a new era
Monitoring volcanic emissionsSentinel-5P detected volcanic emissions from the latest eruption of Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano
Mapping Tibet glaciersData from Sentinel-1 and -2 were key to mapping two giant ice avalanches in Tibet
New Collaborative Ground Segment CooperationA new agreement will facilitate Sentinel data exploitation in Romania
Sentinel toolboxesThree open source toolboxes provide tools for using data products from Sentinel-1, -2 and -3
