THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - Sentinel-3 A -

Full Name

Sentinel-3 A

Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

ESA , COM , EUMETSAT

Launch Date

16 Feb 2016

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

Mar 2026

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

41335 (TLE)

International Designator

2016-011A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

101 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.65 deg

Orbit Altitude

807 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:00

Repeat Cycle

27 days

Objectives and Applications

Sentinel-3 supports global land and ocean monitoring services, in particular: sea/land colour data and surface temperature; sea surface and land ice topography; coastal zones, inland water and sea ice topography; vegetation products.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	OLCI
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	SRAL
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	OLCI
	Cloud particle properties and profile	OLCI
	Radiation budget	OLCI
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	OLCI
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	SRAL
Land	Albedo and reflectance	OLCI
	Landscape topography	SRAL
	Vegetation	OLCI
	Surface temperature (land)	SLSTR
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	OLCI, SLSTR
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	OLCI
	Ocean topography/currents	SRAL
	Ocean surface winds	SRAL
	Surface temperature (ocean)	SLSTR
	Ocean wave height and spectrum	SRAL
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	OLCI
Snow & Ice	Ice sheet topography	SRAL
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	SLSTR, SRAL

Mission Instruments

DGXX-S - Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-New Generation XX-S

OLCI - Ocean and Land Colour Imager

SLSTR - Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer

SRAL - SAR Radar Altimeter

OpenSearch Datasets

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Black Sea High Resolution SST L4 Analysis 0.0625 deg Resolution for 2019-09-18 (NCEI Accession 02135 ...

ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 1.0

ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 1.1

ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global attenuation coefficient for do ...

ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global chlorophyll-a data products gr ...

ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global dataset of inherent optical pr ... $The ESA Ocean Colour CCI project has produced global, level 3, binned multi-sensor time-series of satellite ocean-colour data with a particular focus for use in climate studies.This dataset contains their Version 5.0 inherent optical properties (IOP) product (in mg/m3) on a geographic projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites) covering the period 1997 - 2020. Note, the IOP data is also included in the 'All Products' dataset. The inherent optical properties (IOP) dataset consists of the total absorption and particle backscattering coefficients, and, additionally, the fraction of detrital & dissolved organic matter absorption and phytoplankton absorption. The total absorption (units m-1), the total backscattering (m-1), the absorption by detrital and coloured dissolved organic matter, the backscattering by particulate matter, and the absorption by phytoplankton share the same spatial resolution of ~4 km. The values of IOP are reported for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm). This data product is on a geographic grid projection, which is a direct conversion of latitude and longitude coordinates to a rectangular grid, typically a fixed multiplier of 360x180. The netCDF files follow the CF convention for this projection with a resolution of 8640x4320. (A separate dataset is also available for data on a sinusoidal projection.)$
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global dataset of inherent optical pr ... $The ESA Ocean Colour CCI project has produced global, level 3, binned multi-sensor time-series of satellite ocean-colour data with a particular focus for use in climate studies.This dataset contains their Version 5.0 inherent optical properties (IOP) product (in mg/m3) on a sinusoidal projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites) covering the period 1997 - 2020. Note, the IOP data are also included in the 'All Products' dataset. The inherent optical properties (IOP) dataset consists of the total absorption and particle backscattering coefficients, and, additionally, the fraction of detrital & dissolved organic matter absorption and phytoplankton absorption. The total absorption (units m-1), the total backscattering (m-1), the absorption by detrital and coloured dissolved organic matter, the backscattering by particulate matter, and the absorption by phytoplankton share the same spatial resolution of ~4 km. The values of IOP are reported for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm). This data product is on a sinusoidal equal-area grid projection, matching the NASA standard level 3 binned projection. The default number of latitude rows is 4320, which results in a vertical bin cell size of approximately 4 km. The number of longitude columns varies according to the latitude, which permits the equal area property. Unlike the NASA format, where the bin cells that do not contain any data are omitted, the CCI format retains all cells and simply marks empty cells with a NetCDF fill value. (A separate dataset is also available for data on a geographic projection.)$
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global ocean colour data products gri ...

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