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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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.