ESA - Sentinel-2 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-2A - 23 June 2015
Sentinel-2B - 7 March 2017
Sentinel-2C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

Tracing raw materials and their related impacts

Tracing the environmental impacts of supply chains

11/09/2019 4622 views 56 likes

Oostvadersplassen, the Netherlands

Using machine learning for rewilding

10/09/2019 6025 views 70 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 15755 views 145 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12290 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 4463 views 59 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 9451 views 126 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 11388 views 117 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 11322 views 123 likes

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Land-cover dynamics unveiled

21/03/2019 19280 views 209 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 5965 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10224 views 88 likes

Shrinking heart

13/02/2019 6323 views 102 likes

Loving big

12/02/2019 4237 views 84 likes

Island love

11/02/2019 6653 views 98 likes

Burn scars near Cape Town

More of Africa scarred by fires than thought

04/02/2019 10060 views 79 likes

Green turns brown

Tackling drought issues for food security

29/11/2018 4021 views 44 likes

Training artificial intelligence

Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainability goals

14/11/2018 4699 views 54 likes

Mapping Mexico’s land cover

Zooming in on Mexico’s landscape

22/10/2018 9018 views 78 likes

Fault line land movement in Indonesia

Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake

05/10/2018 17813 views 104 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5791 views 92 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11425 views 94 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7169 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 10726 views 148 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 6816 views 102 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5101 views 111 likes

Shrub removal

Space helps forests regenerate

10/01/2018 3028 views 48 likes

African land cover

Africa, classified

03/10/2017 12489 views 78 likes

Naples relayed via laser

First Sentinel-2B images delivered by laser

12/06/2017 20027 views 95 likes

Algal bloom off Belgian coast

Near-shore phytoplankton bloom captured from space

08/06/2017 6195 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

24/05/2017 16049 views 100 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7102 views 87 likes

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 10617 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 6492 views 87 likes

Brindisi, Italy

A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its firs…

15/03/2017 17348 views 151 likes

Mission control room

Enabling & Support

Orbiting in sunshine

09/03/2017 7335 views 100 likes

Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched

07/03/2017 16913 views 131 likes

Sentinel-2: high-resolution and multispectral

Enabling & Support

Dressed to thrill

03/03/2017 5202 views 62 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-2B launch

03/03/2017 13647 views 91 likes

#Sentinel2Go launch event at ESOC

03/03/2017 12557 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6335 views 75 likes

Vega VV09 upper composite transferred to launcher assembly area

Call for Media: launch of Sentinel-2B satellite for Coperni…

28/02/2017 1002 views 2 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15411 views 184 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 6123 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4144 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4466 views 60 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9308 views 86 likes

Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

15/11/2016 6883 views 84 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 4970 views 69 likes

Sentinel-2B in vacuum chamber

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

18/07/2016 6036 views 83 likes

Detecting coral bleaching

Looking out for coral bleaching

01/07/2016 3711 views 56 likes

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