USGS Release: USGS Partners with European Space Agency to Deliver Copernicus Earth Data (3/15/2016 2:24:32 PM)

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-17

Summary:

"The U.S. Geological Survey and the European Space Agency (ESA) have established an innovative partnership to enable USGS storage and redistribution of Earth observation data acquired by Copernicus program satellites.  The ESA-USGS collaboration will serve scientific and commercial customers who are interested in the current conditions of forests, crops, and water bodies across large regions and in the longer term environmental condition of the Earth. Data acquired by the European Union’s Sentinel-2A satellite launched in June 2015 are highly complementary to data acquired by USGS/NASA Landsat satellites since 1972 ... The agreement is part of a broader understanding between the European Union and three U.S. federal science agencies — NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and USGS — that was signed in October 2015. All parties are committed to the principle of full, free and open access to Earth observation satellite data produced by the European Union’s Sentinel program and by the respective U.S. agencies. An ESA article further describes the cross-Atlantic collaboration ..."

Link:

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4475&_utm_source=1-2-2#.Vuqjh1MrJAY

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Date tagged:

03/17/2016, 08:32

Date published:

03/17/2016, 04:32