Due to an issue that occurred at the PDGS level on 2 March 2020, Copernicus Sentinel-3B data are delayed.

As a consequence of a ground segment anomaly on 28 February which was fixed on 1 March, the nominal availability of Copernicus Sentinel-2 products was affected.

Researchers of a Swiss company are testing Copernicus Sentinel-1 data to better calibrate the Enhanced SAR Vegetation Index (ESVI) for drought conditions, which could help insurance plans for farmers.

With reference to the news published on 31 January 2020, users are informed that the retrieval of Copernicus Sentinel-1 offline products from the Long Term Archives has been resumed on the following dates:

• APIHub: 3 February 2020 at 11:00 UTC
• SciHub: 11 February 2020 at 13:40 UTC.

Due to a Copernicus Sentinel-3A SLSTR instrument anomaly on 3 February and consequent recovery actions executed on the instrument all the related user products are unavailable or degraded in the following UTC sensing time intervals:

• 3 February 03:06 to 3 February 10:44: IR channels are degraded (instrument anomaly)
• 3 February 10:44 to 7 February 15:37: IR channels are unavailable (recovery action)
• 3 February 15:42 to 7 February 15:37: VIS channels unavailable (recovery action)
• 7 February 15:37 to 12 February 00:00: IR channels are invalid and some VIS products may be degraded (recovery action).

Infrastructure Security Maintenance activities are scheduled on:

• Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 February
• Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 March

A recent study was carried out comparing NASA's FIRMS data with Copernicus Sentinel data, resulting in Copernicus Sentinel-1 data particularly detecting wildfires in Australia.