{"id":240440,"date":"2016-04-12T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d6b224bdaaab0f7162aef7c586b5aaf8"},"modified":"2016-04-12T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:05:00","slug":"sentinel-1b-services-tracking-sea-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240440","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1B services: tracking sea ice"},"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\/2016\/04\/sentinel-1b_services_tracking_sea_ice\/15916789-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_Services_tracking_sea_ice_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nOn April 22, the European Space Agency ESA will launch the Sentinel-1B satellite on top of a Soyuz rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nIt is the twin brother of Sentinel-1A launched in 2014 and the fourth satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel series.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nWith Sentinel-1, ESA and the European Union can already showcase the importance and interest of the Space component of the Copernicus programme.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nThe Sentinel-1 satellites offer numerous services covering applications in the marine environment with oil-spill monitoring or ship detection for maritime security, monitoring land-subsidence, and mapping of forests, water and soils as well as supporting humanitarian aid and crisis situations management.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\nThis video shows a good example of Sentinel services for monitoring Arctic sea-ice and iceberg mapping with the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, the European Space Agency ESA will launch the Sentinel-1B satellite on top of a Soyuz rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>It is the twin brother of Sentinel-1A launched in 2014 and the fourth satellite of the Copernicus Sentine&#8230;<\/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-240440","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\/240440","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=240440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240441,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240440\/revisions\/240441"}],"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=240440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}