{"id":220684,"date":"2014-07-30T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"3d88ff8896f6e40aaef6f09043571809"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:40:00","slug":"towing-the-costa-concordia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220684","title":{"rendered":"Towing the Costa Concordia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/07\/towing_the_costa_concordia\/14678146-1-eng-GB\/Towing_the_Costa_Concordia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis Sentinel-1A image was acquired on 26 July 2014 over the coast of northwestern Italy while the <i>Costa Concordia<\/i> cruise ship (enlarged) was being towed towards the city of Genoa.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ship capsized near the island of Giglio in January 2012. Following more than two years of salvage operations, the ship began its final journey under tow on 23 July 2014, arriving at the port of Genoa four days later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring and after the towing, satellite radar images \u2013 such as the one here \u2013 were analysed, with the technical support of the European Commission\u2019s Joint Research Centre. This was done for scientific research purposes to assess the Sentinel-1A and other satellite radar images for pollution and ship traffic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1A is the first satellite launched for Europe\u2019s Copernicus environment monitoring programme. Surveillance of the marine environment, including oil-spill monitoring and ship detection, is one of the mission\u2019s main tasks. Although Sentinel-1A is still being commissioned to prepare for routine operations, early images like this demonstrate the value of its radar vision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Copernicus programme also supported recovery operations of the <i>Costa Concordia<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/docs\/EarthObservation\/Copernicus_Factsheet_CostaConcordia_Issue41_December2013.pdf\" >Learn more.<\/a><\/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\/images\/2014\/07\/towing_the_costa_concordia\/14678146-1-eng-GB\/Towing_the_Costa_Concordia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis Sentinel-1A image was acquired on 26 July 2014 over the coast of northwestern Italy while the <i>Costa Concordia<\/i> cruise ship (enlarged) was being towed towards the city of Genoa.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ship capsized near the island of Giglio in January 2012. Following more than two years of salvage operations, the ship began its final journey under tow on 23 July 2014, arriving at the port of Genoa four days later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring and after the towing, satellite radar images \u2013 such as the one here \u2013 were analysed, with the technical support of the European Commission\u2019s Joint Research Centre. This was done for scientific research purposes to assess the Sentinel-1A and other satellite radar images for pollution and ship traffic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1A is the first satellite launched for Europe\u2019s Copernicus environment monitoring programme. Surveillance of the marine environment, including oil-spill monitoring and ship detection, is one of the mission\u2019s main tasks. Although Sentinel-1A is still being commissioned to prepare for routine operations, early images like this demonstrate the value of its radar vision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Copernicus programme also supported recovery operations of the <i>Costa Concordia<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/docs\/EarthObservation\/Copernicus_Factsheet_CostaConcordia_Issue41_December2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more.<\/a><\/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-220684","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\/220684","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=220684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220684\/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=220684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}