During the forthcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, which will take place from 12-17 April 2015, ESA is organising the session "Scientific Exploitation of Copernicus Sentinels - EO Research and Innovation".
Interested users who wish to participate to this session are encouraged to submit their contribution before: 7 January 2015
During the forthcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, which will take place from 12-17 April 2015, ESA is organising the session "Scientific Exploitation of Copernicus Sentinels - EO Research and Innovation".
Copernicus will provide accurate, up-to-date and globally-available information on an operational basis for services and applications related to land, sea/ocean and atmospheric monitoring as well as to emergency response and security in support of European policies. On behalf of the European Union, the European Commission manages the overall programme and coordinates the Copernicus service component whereas the European Space Agency manages the Copernicus space component, and the European Environment Agency coordinates the Copernicus in-situ component.
The Copernicus space component comprises, in addition to a range of contributing missions, new missions called the Sentinels which have been under development since 2007. The new Sentinel missions will feature radar and super-spectral imaging as well as ocean and atmospheric monitoring capacities.
The Sentinel missions are primarily designed to provide routine observations for operational services. However the Sentinel missions are also very attractive for performing state of the art scientific research and developing innovative applications. Furthermore, the uptake of the data by the science communities is essential for improving existing services and/or developing new services, and thus supporting the evolution of the overall system.
The first of the Sentinel-1 imaging radar mission, the Sentinel-1A satellite, was launched successfully in April 2014 and following a successful in-orbit commissioning the data are now available to the science community since the beginning of October 2014.
The first of the Sentinel-2 land monitoring optical mission, the Sentinel-2A satellite, is due to launch in April 2015.
The session at the EGU General Assembly is intended to outline the status of the Copernicus system, to introduce scientific exploitation activities ongoing by ESA within its Living Planet Programme, and by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme and together with national activities planned within the EU member states.
If you are interested to participate, please consider submitting a contribution to this session before 7 January 2015 on the EGU General Assembly website. The session on the Sentinels can be found by searching for "GI2.9".