Sentinel (satellite)
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Sentinel is a series of future space missions currently being developed by ESA
under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security(GMES) programme. The Sentinel missions include radar and super-spectral imaging for land, ocean and atmospheric monitoring.
The Sentinel missions will have the following objectives:
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...
under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security(GMES) programme. The Sentinel missions include radar and super-spectral imaging for land, ocean and atmospheric monitoring.
The Sentinel missions will have the following objectives:
- Sentinel 1Sentinel 1Sentinel 1 is a future space mission from ESA of GMES program.The payload of Sentinel 1 is a Synthetic Aperture Radar in C-band which provides continuous imagery ....
will provide all-weather, day and night radar imaging for land and ocean services. The first Sentinel-1 satellite is planned for launch in 2013; - Sentinel 2Sentinel 2Sentinel 2 is a future space mission from ESA, the second in GMES program.It will provide multispectral earth observation data providing data continuity of Landsat and SPOT-type missions....
will provide high-resolution optical imaging for land services (e.g. imagery of vegetation, soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas). Sentinel-2 will also provide information for emergency services. The first Sentinel-2 satellite is planned for launch at the end of 2012; - Sentinel 3Sentinel 3Sentinel 3 is a future space mission from ESA, the third in the GMES program.It will provide medium resolution optical and radar altimetry Earth observation data...
will provide ocean and global land monitoring services. The first Sentinel-3 satellite is planned for launch at the end of 2012; - Sentinel-4, embarked as a payload upon a Meteosat Third Generation Satellite, will provide data for atmospheric composition monitoring. It will be launched in 2017;
- Sentinel-5 will also provide data for atmospheric composition monitoring. It will be embarked on a post-EUMETSAT Polar System(EPS) spacecraft and launched in 2019;
- Sentinel-6 is the intent to sustain high precision altimetry missions following the Jason-2 satellite.