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Sentinel-2A  

Type

  • sosa:Platform

Definition

  • Sentinel-2 is a multispectral operational imaging mission within the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) program, jointly implemented by the EC (European Commission) and ESA (European Space Agency) for global land observation (data on vegetation, soil and water cover for land, inland waterways and coastal areas, and also provide atmospheric absorption and distortion data corrections) at high resolution with high revisit capability to provide enhanced continuity of data so far provided by SPOT-5 and Landsat-7

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  • Sentinel-2A

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has instrument

URI

https://vocab.met.no/mmd/Platform/Sentinel-2A

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