Thought this brief post would be highly appropriate having just discussed how sensors work in the previous post and also the potential this brings which could be highly useful to my future plans for measuring vegetation cover.
The Sentinel-2 is a land monitoring constellation consisting of two high resolution multispectral optical imagers, providing resolution up 10m! Every 10 days with one satellite and 5 days with 2! Smashing temporal and spatial issues! The information that this has the potential to provide can revolutionise understandings of land use, modelling climate change extent and impacts, whilst having land cover mapping seeing a significant improvement (ESA, 2017). The Sentinel 2 will carry on from Landsat measurements, producing timelines of changes like the deforestation near the northwestern Brazilian city of Rio Branco in the past 30 years:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2017/03/Deforestation_in_Rio_Branco
Relating to dissertation ideas, this will help understand the potential changes within boreal forests and help projecting any interpretations of plant health in relation to growth (Majasalmi and Rautiainen, 2016).
References
ESA (2017). Sentinel-2. [online] European Space Agency. Available at: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2 [Accessed 23 May 2017].
Majasalmi, T. and Rautiainen, M. (2016). The potential of Sentinel-2 data for estimating biophysical variables in a boreal forest: a simulation study. Remote Sensing Letters, 7(5), pp.427-436.
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