While preparing for an upcoming presentation at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) I came across a topic that I thought might make an interesting blog post. The presentation is about using data from the Sentinel-1 mission for Earth Science applications. The Sentinel-1 spacecraft are C-band SAR systems launched and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). An innovative aspect of this mission is that the collection scenario devised by ESA is systematic and very broad in coverage. Using Sentinel-1 we can monitor Earth using SAR data like never before. Background The idea for this example was a MongaBay article about how…
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