ESA's sentinel missions in support of Earth system science

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 120, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-90

  Berger, Michael ^a   Moreno, Jose ^b   Johannessen, Johnny A ^c,d   Levelt, Pieternel F ^e   Hanssen, Ramon F ^e  

^a ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Earth system science; ESA; Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES); Sentinel

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; COUPLED MODELS; CRYOSPHERE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE; EARTH SYSTEMS; ESA; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GLOBAL MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY; IMPROVED PROCESS; OPERATIONAL SERVICE; SENTINEL; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL BAND; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN HABITATS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CRYOSPHERE; EARTH SCIENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; SATELLITE MISSION; SENTINEL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859431071     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.023     Document Type: Article

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