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Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

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gov civilFounded 1961
France
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The Metop-SGA1 weather satellite carries the IASI-NG instrument developed by CNES.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 29, 2025Launch of the third Ariane 6 rocket carrying the Metop-SGA1 satellite (VA264)

An Image Quality team of six CNES engineers was set up in 2008 to collaborate with ESA on Sentinel-2.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES helped to correct a radiometric bias for consistent radiometry across all three Sentinel-2 satellites.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES provides high-quality ARD products as part of the THEIA Land data center.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES made significant contributions to the definition of the Sentinel-2 mission and its products.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES provided financial support for researchers through the TOSCA budget.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES is participating in the Mission Advisory Group for the development of the Sentinel-2 NG mission, planned for launch in 2034.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES has been involved in in-flight acceptance work since the launch of Sentinel-2A.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES was responsible for all aspects of image quality for the first two Sentinel-2 satellites.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES has facilitated access to worldwide Sentinel-2 data through the GEODES portal.

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

In 2003, CNES studied the 'GMES continental' mission, which proposed global coverage every 3 days.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES introduced the Global Reference Image (GRI) concept to improve geometric refinements of Sentinel-2 images.

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES processes over 1,000 Sentinel-2 products per year for radiometric validation.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES processes the entirety of Europe with the MAJA processor for Sentinel-2 data.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

In 1998, CNES proposed the Rhea mission, which later became the VENµS satellite.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES used Formosat-2 satellite data to prepare for Sentinel-2 and VENµS missions.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

The MGRS tile grid was suggested by CNES to facilitate image time series use in Sentinel-2.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

CNES defined Sentinel-2 products up to level 1C and recommended the level 2 product content.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

The WASP processor is used by CNES to provide monthly syntheses of cloud-free observations.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

Damien Rodat represents CNES in ESA's S2 Quality Working Group.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJul 23, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission
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