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Project Description

Copernicus is the world's largest single earth observation programme and is directed by the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. As a consortia member under ACRI-ST lead ARGANS provides the expert scientist responsible for Level 1 and Level 2 sensor calibration and system operators at the Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre providing quality assurance services. Under contract by ESA, ARGANS contributed to pre-launch and post-launch commissioning and now provide the QA support role under an annual operational contract..

Project Details

  • Client: ESA
  • Date: February 2017 - ongoing
  • Manager: François-Régis Martin-Lauzer (Technical) / Dr Bahjat Alhammoud (ESL)
  • Features: OperationsQ&A