Category: News of the other missions

The first map of Sentinel-3A on a global scale is presented this week at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium.

The European mission Sentinel-3A was successfully launched on 16 February 2016. Its first map on a global scale is presented this week at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. Its radar altimeter measurements are processed by the Sentinel-3A processing prototype (S3PP) at CNES, with ESA level-0 data as input. Sentinel-3A integrates this unprecedented constellation now available, with no less than six different altimetry satellites currently in orbit, namely Jason-2, Cryosat, Saral, HY-2, Jason-3 and Sentinel- 3A.

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Map of Sea Level Anomalies (MSLA) made with the Sentinel's data between 3 March and 2 April 2016. The color scale is available by increasing the image. Credits Copenicus/ESA /CNES, 2016.

Further information:

•  Esa's website: <link http: www.esa.int spaceinimages images sea-level_variations_from_sentinel-3a _blank external-link-new-window>Sea level variations from Sentinel-3A
• BBC's website: <link http: www.bbc.com news science-environment-36255957 _blank external-link-new-window>Sentinel's first map of sea-surface 'hills and valleys'