The Sentinel missions support climate change studies by providing data that can be used to supplement heritage time-series acquisitions. This information can provide additional weight to data acquired by European and international earth observation programmes, and will support the response and management of related policy issues within Europe at federal, national and local levels.
Sentinel-1 provides the ability to provide data on forest fire scar mapping, which can be used to map the history and lifecycle of forests, with particular regard to the carbon content. Fire scar mapping also plays an important role in mapping of forest fire scars, can be an important part of mapping the carbon history of a forest and provides support in the estimation of carbon emissions.
Sentinel-2 will provide land monitoring support to climate change via monitoring of aspects such as soil use and land use change. This information can be used to support European environmental policy, and help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the international humanitarian response to climate related emergencies.More information on the MSI instruments support to this application can be found here.
Sentinel-3 will provide SST data for use by the climate scientific research community, and support ocean forecasting and weather prediction.
- The OLCI instrument on-board Sentinel-3 will support climate change monitoring. More information on OLCI's support to this application can be found here
- The altimetry data from the SRAL instrument onboard Sentinel-3 will support precise monitoring of changes over time of Mean Sea Level (MSL) in the global oceans, and support environmental monitoring.
- The SLSTR instrument on-board Sentinel-3 will support monitoring of atmospheric constituents. More information on SLSTR's support to this application can be found here.
- The combined OLCI/SLSTR SYN product will support climate change monitoring through its SYN S1 and SYN S10 ECV (Essential Climate Variable) ECV products.
