We are pleased to announce a new forthcoming processing baseline for Copernicus Sentinel-3 SLSTR products, which includes the following highlights:

• L1: New method for re-gridding instrument pixels
• L1: Cosmetic filling method update
• L1: Improved geometric calibration for F1 channel (reduced spatial offset between F1 and S7)
• LST: Improved performance of retrieval of LST measurements
• LST: Improved cloud flagging

The Sentinel-2 Validation Team (S2VT) meeting is a forum for the Copernicus Sentinel-2 scientific and user community to present and share results of on-going activities related to validation of Sentinel-2 products and to foster cooperation and synergies among Cal/Val teams. The 4th S2VT meeting will be hosted in Darmstadt (Germany) at ESA-ESOC (European Space Operation Centre) premises from 3 to 5 March 2020.

Italy has been victim of days-long flooding and high-tides, owing to the severe weather of the past weeks. Although forecasts do not promise an improvement just yet, the Copernicus Sentinels have teamed up to help monitor the situation.

Infrastructure security maintenance activities are scheduled on the data hubs on 26 and 27 November, and 3 and 4 December.

A routine decontamination activity of the Copernicus Sentinel-2B MSI is planned to take place over a continuous period of 24-hours between 25/11/2019 10:00 and 26/11/2019 10:00 UTC (corresponding approximately to the period between absolute orbits 14205 to 14219). During this temporal window no MSI acquisition will take place.