GMES SENTINEL 3 - A Long-Term Monitoring of Ocean and Land to Support Sustainable Development

Paper number

IAC-07-B1.2.04

Author

Mr. Jean-Jacques Juillet, Thales Alenia Space, France

Coauthor

Mr. Yvan Baillion, Thales Alenia Space, France

Coauthor

Mr. Miguel Aguirre, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands

Coauthor

Mr. Bruno Berruti, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands

Year

2007

Abstract

The Sentinel 3 Mission is part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative whose overall objective is to support Europe’s goals regarding sustainable development and global governance of the environment by providing timely and quality data, information, services and knowledge. In that way, Sentinel 3 will touch humanity by contributing to the improvement of the life quality.

 The Sentinel 3 mission will be more particularly devoted the provision of Ocean observation data in routine, long term (20 years of operations) and continuous fashion with a consistent quality and a very high level of availability. In addition, the mission will be designed to generate Land optical observation products, ice topography and land hydrology products.

Alcatel Alenia Space has successfully performed during around two years the definition phase of this mission together with ESA to come to an optimized system answering to the users’ objectives. The results of this definition phase and the way forward for a successful implementation of that mission will be presented in this paper. In particular, the technical baseline will be described together with the key performances related to the different mission objectives (ocean colour, altimetry, surface temperature, land).

The implementation phase of the Sentinel 3 mission is planned to start in the last quarter of 2007 for a launch scheduled in 2012.

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