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 - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

Oostvadersplassen, the Netherlands

Using machine learning for rewilding

10/09/2019 5994 views 70 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 15640 views 145 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12247 views 125 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 4414 views 59 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 9414 views 126 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 11277 views 117 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 11224 views 123 likes

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

21/03/2019 19243 views 209 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 5935 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10186 views 88 likes

Shrinking heart

13/02/2019 6288 views 102 likes

Loving big

12/02/2019 4227 views 84 likes

Island love

11/02/2019 6633 views 98 likes

Burn scars near Cape Town

More of Africa scarred by fires than thought

04/02/2019 10022 views 79 likes

Green turns brown

Tackling drought issues for food security

29/11/2018 3997 views 44 likes

Training artificial intelligence

Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainability goals

14/11/2018 4661 views 54 likes

Mapping Mexico’s land cover

Zooming in on Mexico’s landscape

22/10/2018 8942 views 78 likes

Fault line land movement in Indonesia

Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake

05/10/2018 17741 views 104 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5774 views 92 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11376 views 94 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7142 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 10672 views 147 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 6785 views 102 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5095 views 111 likes

Shrub removal

Space helps forests regenerate

10/01/2018 3009 views 48 likes

African land cover

Africa, classified

03/10/2017 12399 views 78 likes

Naples relayed via laser

First Sentinel-2B images delivered by laser

12/06/2017 19988 views 95 likes

Algal bloom off Belgian coast

Near-shore phytoplankton bloom captured from space

08/06/2017 6150 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

24/05/2017 15836 views 100 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7077 views 87 likes

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 10585 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 6453 views 87 likes

Brindisi, Italy

A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its firs…

15/03/2017 17322 views 151 likes

Mission control room

Enabling & Support

Orbiting in sunshine

09/03/2017 7324 views 100 likes

Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched

07/03/2017 16890 views 131 likes

Sentinel-2: high-resolution and multispectral

Enabling & Support

Dressed to thrill

03/03/2017 5192 views 62 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-2B launch

03/03/2017 13591 views 91 likes

#Sentinel2Go launch event at ESOC

03/03/2017 12534 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6318 views 75 likes

Vega VV09 upper composite transferred to launcher assembly area

Call for Media: launch of Sentinel-2B satellite for Coperni…

28/02/2017 988 views 2 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15207 views 184 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 6026 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4131 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4435 views 60 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9285 views 86 likes

Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

15/11/2016 6875 views 84 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 4927 views 69 likes

Sentinel-2B in vacuum chamber

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

18/07/2016 6026 views 83 likes

Detecting coral bleaching

Looking out for coral bleaching

01/07/2016 3682 views 56 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3764 views 39 likes

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