{"id":219619,"date":"2014-03-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"0d3e063e0ff19e2a5f6b03617f5514eb"},"modified":"2014-03-31T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:00:00","slug":"why-we-need-radar-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219619","title":{"rendered":"Why we need radar satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/04\/why_we_need_radar_satellites\/14358853-4-eng-GB\/Why_we_need_radar_satellites_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch of the first Sentinel-1 satellite marks a new&nbsp;paradigm in Earth observation focusing on operational missions to support&nbsp;users for decades to come. This first satellite for Europe\u2019s environmental&nbsp;monitoring Copernicus programme carries an advanced radar to image Earth\u2019s&nbsp;surface no matter what the weather or if it is day or night. Olaf Trieschmann&nbsp;from the European Maritime Safety Agency talks about the need for radar&nbsp;satellites and how data from Sentinel-1 will be used to monitor oil spills&nbsp;and for maritime surveillance. ESA\u2019s Josef Aschbacher talks about how the&nbsp;wide range of services offered through Copernicus will make a step change in&nbsp;the way we manage the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/04\/why_we_need_radar_satellites\/14358853-4-eng-GB\/Why_we_need_radar_satellites_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch of the first Sentinel-1 satellite marks a new&nbsp;paradigm in Earth observation focusing on operational missions to support&nbsp;users for decades to come. This first satellite for Europe\u2019s environmental&nbsp;monitoring Copernicus programme carries an advanced radar to image Earth\u2019s&nbsp;surface no matter what the weather or if it is day or night. Olaf Trieschmann&nbsp;from the European Maritime Safety Agency talks about the need for radar&nbsp;satellites and how data from Sentinel-1 will be used to monitor oil spills&nbsp;and for maritime surveillance. ESA\u2019s Josef Aschbacher talks about how the&nbsp;wide range of services offered through Copernicus will make a step change in&nbsp;the way we manage the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}