Sentinels for science: Potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 missions for scientific observations of ocean, cryosphere, and land

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 120, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-101

  Malenovský, Zbyněk ^a   Rott, Helmut ^b,c   Cihlar, Josef ^d   Schaepman, Michael E ^a   García Santos, Glenda ^a   Fernandes, Richard ^e   Berger, Michael ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d ZEMKON INC   (Canada)

^e CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^f ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryosphere; ESA GMES space component; GMES Sentinel 1, 2, and 3 missions; Land variables; Ocean

Indexed keywords

CRYOSPHERE; ESA GMES SPACE COMPONENT; GMES SENTINEL-1, -2, AND -3 MISSIONS; LAND VARIABLES; OCEAN;

SOILS;

REMOTE SENSING;

CRYOSPHERE; EOS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE MISSION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR;

EID: 84859420524     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.09.026     Document Type: Article

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