Remote Sensing of Environment
Sentinel-1: Advances in Remote Sensing After a Decade in Space
Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice sheets
Written by Copernical Team Wednesday, 07 January 2026 09:00-
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The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea – an important dynamic for climate and sea-rise modelling – has been captured over a 10-year period by satellites from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.