This animation features imagery from the German RapidEye satellites to demonstrate how the future Sentinel-2 mission will be able to monitor land and coastal zones. The Sentinel-2 mission being developed for Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring programme will deliver frequent and systematic high-resolution optical imagery of Earth’s landmasses. It will support operational applications in agriculture, forestry, land cover and cartography, as well as the mapping of glaciers and wetlands.