Author: Annekatrien

I'm a geogeek with a passion for satellite images. I studied earth observation in university, graduating with a master's degree in 2009. I then worked as a trainee at ESA (aka spacegeek heaven) for a year, and then moved on to develop information services from satellite images at a company in Norway. I now work fulltime as a consultant telling people about GIS and remote sensing.

Sentinel-1 image over the Netherlands (c) ESA

Downloading Sentinel satellite imagery

Sentinel is the buzzword for a series of Earth observation missions like Sentinel-1 (Land and Ocean monitoring,launched in April 2014), Sentinel-2 (land monitoring, launched in June 2015) and…