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Sentinel-2

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Sentinel-2 is a polar-orbiting, multispectral high-resolution imaging mission for land monitoring to provide, for example, imagery of vegetation, soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas. It will also deliver information for emergency services.


Nature valued from space	Storms hit Europe's forests


Tracing the outbreak of Ebola	Monitoring restless super-volcanoes	A close-up view of big events


How clean is your favourite beach?	Costa Concordia: Recovery operations assisted from space	Facing the renewable energy challenge


Boosting food security from space	Europe's lakes and rivers monitored from space	Copernicus supports storm monitoring


Europe's changing snow cover seen from space	Satellites support monitoring of Europe's green lungs	Tracking a burning issue from space


Food watch from space	Satellites support sustainable aquaculture development	Boosting economic growth with Copernicus


Satellites provide unique insight into our climate system	From space to species: monitoring biodiversity	Satellites pinpoint the loss of natural soil


How satellites track a mass killer	How Copernicus supports flood management	How satellites help manage humanitarian crises


Tracking flood waters from space	Glaciers on the move - a perspective from space	Improving flight safety with satellite data


Expanding cities - a growing concern	Reacting to disasters with satellite data	Preserving forests cutting carbon


Satellites reveal where Europe is running out of water

Sentinel-2

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