Sentinels POD Service Operations

The European Space Agency is preparing an operational system for routine Earth Observation called Copernicus (previously known as GMES, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), a joint initiative of the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), designed to support a sustainable European information network by monitoring, recording and analyzing environmental data and events around the globe. The Copernicus program will consist of five different families of satellites being the first three missions Sentinel -1, -2 and -3.