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The European Space Agency started managing an Earth Observation Programme in 1977 with the launch of its first meteorological satellite, Meteosat. Over the decades this has grown into a world-class fleet of satellites addressing a wide range of science and applications. More recently, ESA has embarked on the world’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme to date: Copernicus, with currently six series of Sentinels.
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Rathgeber, W. (2018). The European Space Agency’s Earth Observation Programme. In: Brünner, C., Königsberger, G., Mayer, H., Rinner, A. (eds) Satellite-Based Earth Observation . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74805-4_1
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