The latest satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel family was launched last Saturday, 21st November, at 17.17 GMT. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich was taken into orbit by SpaceX via the Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA, … Continue reading
This week we start in the future with ESA’s announcement of an online press conference on Friday 16th October to discuss the November launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 ‘Michael Freilich’ ocean-monitoring satellite; scheduled to take off on the 10th … Continue reading
August 10th 1992 marked the launch of the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, the first major oceanographic focussed mission. Twenty five years, and three successor satellites, later the dataset begun by TOPEX/Poseidon is going strong providing sea surface height measurements. TOPEX/Poseidon was a … Continue reading
This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of the first SPOT satellite, making it one of the longest satellite time series datasets. The French Space Agency (CNES) established the series of Satellites Pour l’Observation de la Terre, known … Continue reading
Last week we noted how Earth Observation can be used for real-time disaster support, this week we are looking at another significant advantage of Earth Observation, namely historical data. In-situ measurements are great for right now, and some in-situ measurements do … Continue reading
