Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes (left) and Olle Norberg, Director General of the Swedish National Space Board (right) signed an Understanding for the Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment Cooperation, at ESA’s headquarters in Paris, France, on 10 June 2015.
Under the agreement, SNSB will coordinate ground segment activities in Sweden – such as hosting, distributing, ensuring access and archiving Sentinel data – and act as an interface between ESA and national initiatives.
As coordinator of the Copernicus ‘space component’, ESA supports national initiatives by establishing direct and efficient access to Sentinel data, providing technical advice on the setting up of data acquisition and dissemination, as well as making data processing and archiving software available to national initiatives.