{"id":228253,"date":"2015-04-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"545534c429ccffc1866041af0a4855b6"},"modified":"2015-04-20T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:00:00","slug":"sentinel-2a-watching-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=228253","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-2A: Watching Earth"},"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\/2015\/04\/sentinel-2a_watching_earth\/15345725-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-2A_Watching_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA is developing a new family of satellites, called Sentinels, specifically for the operational needs of the Copernicus programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCopernicus is headed by the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency. It provides a unified system through which vast amounts of data are fed into a range of thematic information services designed to benefit the environment, the way we live, humanitarian needs and to support effective policy-making for a more sustainable future. These services fall into six main categories: land management, the marine environment, atmosphere, emergency response, security and climate change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sentinels will provide a unique set of observations, which started with the all-weather, day and night radar images from Sentinel-1A, launched in April 2014. Sentinel-2A will mainly deliver high-resolution optical images.<\/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\/2015\/04\/sentinel-2a_watching_earth\/15345725-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-2A_Watching_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA is developing a new family of satellites, called Sentinels, specifically for the operational needs of the Copernicus programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCopernicus is headed by the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency. It provides a unified system through which vast amounts of data are fed into a range of thematic information services designed to benefit the environment, the way we live, humanitarian needs and to support effective policy-making for a more sustainable future. These services fall into six main categories: land management, the marine environment, atmosphere, emergency response, security and climate change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sentinels will provide a unique set of observations, which started with the all-weather, day and night radar images from Sentinel-1A, launched in April 2014. Sentinel-2A will mainly deliver high-resolution optical images.<\/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-228253","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\/228253","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=228253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228253\/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=228253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}