Copernicus (formerly: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, GMES) is an Earth observation programme run by the European Commission in cooperation with the European Space Agency. It was created to support activities in the field of environmental protection, civil protection and security.
It constitutes the European contribution to building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.
Regulation (EU) No 377/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 establishing the Copernicus programme and repealing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010
Six thematic areas - Copernicus Services
Atmosphere
Marine
Land
Climat Change
Security
Emergency
Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme. Information from this programme is provided through six thematic services: land, marine, atmosphere, climate change, emergency management and security. All information is free and openly accessible to all users. The Land Service is divided into four main components:
Global
Pan-European
Local
Imagery and reference data
from 2014 free of charge
Sentinel-1: radar
Sentinel-2: optical
Sentinel-3: monitoring sea, ocean and land temperatures
Sentinel-4: atmosphere monitoring
Sentinel-5: continuous monitoring of the composition of the earth's atmosphere
Spectral bands
Classification Part 1 - Exploring the image feature space
Classification Part 2 - Unsupervised clustering
Classification Part 3 - Supervised classification
Classification Part 4 - Supervised classification with Random Forest
Classification Part 5 - Validation
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