Sentinel Success Stories - News - Sentinel Online

Calling on all interested users of Sentinel data, who would like to submit their results, turning their experiences into 'success stories'.
If you have a good story to tell, of how any of the Sentinel satellites are producing data that bring benefit to your work and/or to society, please contact the Sentinel Online Editor Malì Cecere at: mali.cecere@ejr-quartz.com with your proposals.
Copernicus Sentinels monitor Hawaii's volcano
14 May 2018
Active for decades, Kīlauea volcano - on Hawaii's Big Island - erupted on 4 May. The island also experienced a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on the same day, forcing thousands to leave their homes.
Sentinels bring new outlook to Tibet glaciers
26 April 2018
On 17 July and 21 September 2016, two unprecedented giant ice avalanches of 70 or 80 million m3, respectively, rushed down from two adjacent glaciers in Tibet with speeds of up to 300 km/h, over slopes as low as a few degrees.
Forest Biomass from Space
16 April 2018
The European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites, together with the COSMO-SkyMed constellation, provided important data related to the 2017 Ischia earthquake.
Sentinel-2 images the globe every 5 days
09 March 2018
Sentinel-1 provides support in Taiwan's earthquake
22 February 2018
Copernicus Sentinel-3 soon to be in tandem
08 February 2018
Sentinels monitor volcanic Mount Agung
25 January 2018
Sentinel-2 exceeds expectations
18 January 2018
Copernicus Sentinel-3 offers safer navigation at sea
11 January 2018
Sentinel-3 helps water-quality monitoring
21 December 2017
Monitoring large, remote bodies of water is logistically challenging, time consuming and expensive. Responding quickly to events that pose a risk to human health has been almost impossible, given the size of some lakes and seas. An innovative satellite data service is now able to change things around.