Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Malenovský, Zbyněk
• Rott, Helmut
• Cihlar, Josef
• Schaepman, Michael E.
• García-Santos, Glenda
• Fernandes, Richard
• Berger, Michael

Titel

Sentinels for science: Potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 missions for scientific observations of ocean, cryosphere, and land

Ist Teil von

• Remote sensing of environment, 2012-05, Vol.120, p.91-101

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 satellite missions can meet various observational needs for spatially explicit physical, biogeophysical, and biological variables of the ocean, cryosphere, and land research activities. The currently known observational requirements were extracted from documents produced by major international scientific projects and programs. The summarized observational needs were then cross-referenced with the capabilities of the planned sensors aboard of the first three Sentinels. A comparative analysis, also incorporating scientific challenges of the ESA Living Planet Programme and the Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), resulted in a preliminary scientific priority assessment of the reviewed environmental variables. Results of these activities, discussed and consolidated in March 2011 at the Sentinels for Science (SEN4SCI) scientific workshop, demonstrate the high potential of the Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 missions for systematic, long-term observations of the Earth system. ► GMES Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 were assessed for ocean, cryosphere, and land science. ► Analysis indicates high potential of the Sentinels to satisfy observational needs. ► The first Sentinel for Science (SEN4SCI) scientific workshop took place in May 2011. ► More than 180 scientists fully supported scientific exploitation of the Sentinels.