The Sentinel-3 Mission: Overview and status

Author

Donlon, C. ; Berruti, B. ; Mecklenberg, S. ; Nieke, J. ; Rebhan, H. ; Klein, U. ; Buongiorno, A. ; Mavrocordatos, C. ; Frerick, J. ; Seitz, B. ; Goryl, P. ; Féménias, P. ; Stroede, J. ; Sciarra, R.

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Agency ESA, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

1711

Lastpage

1714

Abstract

The series of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Sentinel satellites will continue and extend the European heritage of ENVISAT to provide data to numerous user communities. Sentinel-3 is being developed to support GMES Ocean and global Land monitoring services. Two Sentinel-3 satellites are in development with a first launch in 2014 and the second satellite expected approximately 18 months after the first. This paper provides an overview of the Sentinel-3 Mission.

Keywords

artificial satellites; space research; ENVISAT; European heritage; Sentinel-3 Mission; global monitoring for environment and security Sentinel satellites; ocean and global land monitoring services; Instruments; Land surface; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Earth Observing System; Land Surface; Low earth orbit satellites; Oceans;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351194

Filename

6351194