The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Airborne radar image acquired using the DLR-SAR system on 24 May 2006. The image shows more mature crops and little or no bare soil compared to the image taken on 19 April 2006. The colour composite was generated based on C-band multi-polarisation data, illustrating the information content of Sentinel-1 for land use classification.