Copernicus & Sentinel

Copernicus is created by the European Space Agency (ESA) and comprises many different missions through the Sentinel satellite group.

Sentinel 1

• Polar orbiting, all-weather, day and night RADAR imaging mission.
• Synthetic aperture radar
• 9-40 meter pixel resolution
• 1A and 1B launched in 2014 & 2016

Sentinel 2

• Land monitoring, polar orbiting mission for vegetation, soil, water cover, and inland waterways.
• Multispectral - 12 bands
• 5 days temporal resolution
• 2A & 2B launched in 2015 and 2017

Sentinel 3

• Ocean monitoring

Sentinel 4

• Geostationary orbit
• Mission is to monitor the atmosphere

Sentinel 6

• Radar altimeter ocean monitor
• Will replace JASON