News

The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was successfully launched into space on 25 April 2018  from Plesetsk, Russia.  Sentinel-3B joins Sentinel-3A in orbit, thus increasing coverage and data delivery for the European Union’s Copernicus Earth Observation programme.  (more…)

Aquatic plants detachments from floodplain lakes and wetlands in the upper Middle Paraná river drifts downstream arriving in small amounts to the Río de la Plata every year, but only huge invasions have been observed in the Río de la Plata every 10 or 15 years associated to massive floods.

The third ESA-developed satellite carrying four Earth-observing instruments was successfully launched on 16 Feb 2016, ready to provide a ‘bigger picture’ for Europe’s Copernicus environment programme