The implementation of operational atmospheric composition monitoring missions is foreseen in the context of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. Sentinel-4 will address the geostationary observations and Sentinel-5 the low Earth orbit ones. The two missions are planned to be launched on-board Eumetsat’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and Post-EPS satellites, respectively. This paper presents an overview of the GMES Sentinel- 4 mission, which has been assessed at Phase-0 level. It describes the key requirements and outlines the main aspects of the candidate implementation concepts available at completion of Phase-0. The paper will particularly focus on the observation mode, the estimated performance and the related technology developments.


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    Title :

    Sentinel-4: the geostationary component of the GMES atmosphere monitoring missions


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    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2008 ; 2008 ; Toulouse,France


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10566


    Publication date :

    2017-11-21





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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