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- Title
IPSENTINEL.
- Authors
Silva, Marisa; Patricio, Paulo; Anjos, Bruno; Silva, Marco; Pimentel, Cristina; Benevides, Pedro; Girão, Inês; Caetano, Mário
- Abstract
The Portuguese Directorate-General for Territory (DGT) and the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) carried out the assembly of a national platform designated as Portuguese Infrastructure for Sentinel data - IPSentinel. This project had the financial support of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism (EEA Grants), operated by the Directorate-General for Marine Policy (DGPM), and the Portuguese Government. IPSentinel corresponds to an integrated action of Portugal's active participation in the European Earth Observation Program - Copernicus. IPSentinel provides a simple, fast, free and systematic way of accessing the Sentinel satellite data for the Portuguese territory and for the search and rescue area in the Atlantic, under the responsibility of Portugal. It also provides a privileged access to Sentinel 1 data through the Santa Maria Collaborative Ground Station, located in the Autonomous Region of Azores. IPsentinel has been operational since April 2017 and already has about 300 registered users. This fairly large number of users for the portuguese reality in such a short period of time is an indicator that the portuguese users find this platform very useful. The information provided by this infrastructure presents an enormous potential with regard to the creation of products and services for the portuguese territory.
- Subjects
AZORES; SATELLITE image maps; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; REMOTE-sensing images; REMOTE sensing; ARTIFICIAL satellites; GEOGRAPHY
- Publication
Mapping (1131-9100), 2018, Vol 27, Issue 187, p24
- ISSN
1131-9100
- Publication type
Article