CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- Sentinel-1 A
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Full Name
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Sentinel-1 A
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Status
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Operational (nominal)
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Mission Agencies
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ESA , COM
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Launch Date
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03 Apr 2014
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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Jul 2024
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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39634 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2014-016A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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98.74 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Ascending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.19 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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693 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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18:00
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Repeat Cycle
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12 days
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Objectives and Applications
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Providing continuity of C-band SAR data for operational applications notably in the following areas: monitoring of sea ice zones and the arctic environment, surveillance of marine environment, monitoring of land surface motion risks and mapping in support of humanitarian aid in crisis situations.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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Featured Datasets More Datasets
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S1 Backscatter on AWS Sep-2020 | The Sentinel-1 mission is a constellation of C-band Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR) satellites from the European Space Agency launched since 2014. These satellites collect observations of radar backscatter intensity day or night, regardless of the weather conditions, making them enormously valuable for environmental monitoring. These radar data have been processed from original Ground Range Detected (GRD) scenes into a Radiometrically Terrain Corrected, tiled product suitable for analysis. This product is available over the Contiguous United States (CONUS) since 2017 when Sentinel-1 data became globally available.
Read more 
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Biomass CCI AGB 2017 Dec-2019

| This dataset comprises estimates of forest above-ground biomass for the year 2017. The data has been produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme by the Biomass CCI team.
The data was derived from input data from the PALSAR-2 instrument on the ALOS-2 satellite, and data from the Sentinel-1 satellite. The ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 dataset was obtained from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in the form of a mosaic of images acquired in 2017. The Sentinel-1 dataset consisted of individual data takes by the 1A and 1B units during 2017 and provided by the European Space Agency.
Read more  Groups: LSI-VC F&B SG 
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GFOI Coverage Reports Jul-2017 | The CEOS Space Data Coordination group (SDCG) coordinates space satellite data for CEOS initiatives, such as the Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI). In support of the SDCG, the CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) produces historical coverage analyses utilizing the data archives for the Landsat, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 missions. Currently, the SEO produces an individual report for more than 70 GFOI countries (listed below alphabetically).
Read more  Groups: LSI-VC F&B SG 
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 81 ) ABoVE: Wetland Inundation Coverage at Yukon Flats, AK and PA Delta, Canada, 2017-2019  ABoVE: Wetland Type, Slave River and Peace-Athabasca Deltas, Canada, 2007 and 2017  Aboveground Biomass High-Resolution Maps for Selected US Tidal Marshes, 2015  CMS: Mangrove Forest Cover Extent and Change across Major River Deltas, 2000-2016  Daily Great Lakes Ice Concentration, 1973 Onward, Version 1  ESA Biomass Climate Change Initiative (Biomass_cci): Global datasets of forest above-ground biomass ...  ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Calving Front ...  ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Ice Velocity ...  ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Ice Velocity ...  ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Ice Velocity ... 
Want to explore more? Try FedEO by ESA or CMR OpenSearch by NASA 
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