ESA Generic and Title: Copernicus Monitoring the Earth
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ESA Generic and Title: Copernicus monitoring the Earth
25.03.2014
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With Sentinel 1A placed in orbit around the Earth, Europe will have the first in a family of satellites built specifically to provide a stream of timely data for Europe’s ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. The Sentinels will provide a unique set of observations, starting with the all-weather, day and night radar images from Sentinel-1 to be used for land and ocean services.
(ESA Animations: Sentinel 1 Separation Satellite, Flyby snow, SAR scanning Central Europe, 360 degrees rotate satellite and Copernicus Forest Monitoring HD1, ESA 2013)
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RAMON TORRES, Sentinel 1 Project Manager, ESA
Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme to date. The European Space Agency is putting together 6 families of sentinels that will take care of the objectives of the Copernicus programme: land monitoring, marine surveillance, atmosphere climatic change and also fast response to emergencies.
(Interview recorded at Thales Alenia Space, France, on 20/01/2014, and ESA animations Copernicus Baltic Sea HD1, Copernicus Ozone HD1, Copernicus Oil Spill HD1, ESA 2013)
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To maximise coverage of the planet, each sentinel mission is composed of two satellites and each has its own specific tasks..
(ESA animations Copernicus Flyby Italy and SAR coverage satellite pair, 2013)
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GUIDO LEVRINI, Copernicus Space Segment Programme Manager, ESA
Each sentinel has a specific duty, Sentinel 1 is more specifically tailored to emergency response, Sentinel 2 is focused on monitoring the land, Sentinel 3 together with 6 is focused on the monitoring of the oceans and waters and Sentinels 4 and 5 are specially tailored to the monitoring of the atmosphere.
(Interview recorded at ESTEC, The Netherlands, on 25/02/2014 and ESA animations Sentinel 2 and Sentinel 3, ESA 2013)
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Therefore a full set of data will be provided permanently by the Sentinels. This information will be available for free to a wide community of users.
(ESA animations Copernicus Flood Germany, 2013)
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VOLKER LIEBIG, Director Earth Observation Programmes, ESA
The data policy which has been decided is open and free because these data are important for everybody and we believe also that this "made in Europe" data is also an article on which we can build a lot of business development for European companies, in Europe but also outside.
(Interview recorded at ESRIN, Italy, March 2014)
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Copernicus is an initiative headed by the European Commission in partnership with ESA.
While it is not the first mission which looks at the Earth, it is the first one to do so continuously.
(Time-lapse images recorded atThales-Alenia clean room in France and ESA animations Sentinel 1 deployment, 2013)
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PHILIPPE GOUDY, Head of Earth Observation Projects, ESA (in ENGLISH)
It is not sufficient to monitor the evolution of the ice cap or the sea level rise during 5 years and then stop, we really need to monitor those things over a very long time period and this is what Copernicus will bring, it will bring a long term frame for continuous monitoring of our environment.
(Interview recorded at ESTEC, The Netherlands, on 25/02/2014, and ESA animations SAR scanning Arctic Greenland and Copernicus Arctic Sea Ice, 2013)
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By pulling together all the information obtained by environmental satellites, as well as from air and ground stations, Copernicus will provide a comprehensive picture of the "health" of our planet to help us find durable solutions to pressing environmental challenges.
(ESA animations Copernicus volcanoes and Copernicus Floods, 2013)
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RAMON TORRES, Sentinel 1 Project Manager, ESA (in ENGLISH)
Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme to date. The European Space Agency is putting together 6 families of sentinels that will take care of the objectives of the Copernicus programme: land monitoring, marine surveillance, atmosphere climatic change and also fast response to emergencies.
(Interview recorded at Thales Alenia Space, France, on 20/01/2014)
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RAMON TORRES, Sentinel 1 Project Manager, ESA (in SPANISH)
Spanish version of the soundbite above (Interview recorded at Thales Alenia Space, France, on 20/01/2014)
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GUIDO LEVRINI, Copernicus Space Segment Programme Manager, ESA (in ENGLISH)
Each sentinel has a specific duty, Sentinel 1 is more specifically tailored to emergency response, Sentinel 2 is focused on monitoring the land, Sentinel 3 together with 6 is focused on the monitoring of the oceans and waters and Sentinels 4 and 5 are specially tailored to the monitoring of the atmosphere.
(Interview recorded at ESTEC, The Netherlands, on 25/02/2014)
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GUIDO LEVRINI, Copernicus Space Segment Programme Manager, ESA (in ITALIAN)
Italian version of the soundbite above (Interview recorded at ESTEC, The Netherlands, on 25/02/2014)
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VOLKER LIEBIG, Director of Earth Observation Programmes, ESA (in ENGLISH)
The data policy which has been decided is open and free because this data should be available for everybody so the climate data which comes out of it is important for everybody and we believe also that this "made in Europe" data is an article on which we can build a lot of business development for European companies in Europe but also outside.
(Interview recorded at ESRIN, Italy, March 2014)
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PHILIPPE GOUDY, Head of Earth Observation Projects, ESA (in ENGLISH)
It is not sufficient to monitor the evolution of the ice cap or the sea level rise during 5 years and then stop, we really need to monitor those things over a very long time period and this is what Copernicus will bring, it will bring a long term frame for continuous monitoring of our environment.
(Interview recorded at ESTEC, The Netherlands, on 25/02/2014.
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PHILIPPE GOUDY, Head of Earth Observation Projects, ESA (in FRENCH)
(Interview recorded at ESTEC, The Netherlands, on 25/02/2014.
French version of the soundbite above
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JOSEF ASCHBACHER, Director of Copernicus Space Office, ESA (in ENGLISH)
In the best case we are coming down to about half a metre resolution, which is quite precise. Then you go to a range of about 5 metres resolution, where you can measure different parameters, typically agricultural information, agricultural fields, yield predictions.
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Then you go to about 200 metres, 250 metres, which is used for global mapping of the oceans, really parameters at global scale which of course have a different type of user and a different type of interests.
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Sentinel-1A Flybys, ESA animations 2013
Flyby snow
Flyby Italy
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SAR scanning, ESA animations 2013
SAR scanning Central Europe
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SAR scanning Italy
SAR scanning Italy with inserts
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SAR scanning Norway and UK
SAR scanning Norway and UK with inserts
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Arctic sea ice, ESA animations 2013
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Oil spill, ESA animations 2013
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Sentinel 2 animations, ESA 2013
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Sentinel 3 animations, ESA 2013
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