Overview of the area of interest and related Copernicus Sentinel-1 acquisition segments (white rectangle) used by CLS in support of the Vendée Globe sailing race, planned between 11 November and 23 December 2020. The synthetic aperture radar mode used for this one-off coverage is the Extra Wide Swath, Single polarisation HH. Sentinel-1A observation segments are shown in green, Sentinel-1B segments in blue.