Sentinel-1
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The Sentinel-1 imagery is provided by two polar-orbiting satellites, operating day and night performing C-band synthetic aperture radar imaging, enabling them to acquire imagery regardless of the weather. Main applications are for monitoring sea ice, oil spills, marine winds, waves & currents, land-use change, land deformation among others, and to respond to emergencies such as floods and earthquakes. The identical satellites orbit Earth 180° apart and at an altitude of almost 700 km, offering a global revisit time of 6-12 days depending on the area (check observation scenario). Sentinel-1’s radar can operate in four modes. The spatial resolution depends on the mode: approx. 5 m x 20 m for IW mode and approx. 20 m x 40 m for EW mode. See Copernicus services for more details.
Vegetation in agriculture algorithms
- Tracking radar vegetation index
- Agricultural crop monitoring from space
- SAR for deforestation detection
- Radar vegetation index for Sentinel-1 - RVI4S1 script
- Radar vegetation index code for dual polarimetric
Disaster management and prevention algorithms
Urban planning algorithm
Marine and other water bodies environment algorithms
- Water surface roughness visualization
- SAR-Ice: A Sea Ice RGB Composite
- Oil Slicks and Red Tide Monitoring