The Sentinel missions support marine monitoring by providing provide timely, continuous and independent data on the behaviour, use, and health of the oceans and the associated coastal zones.
The Sentinel missions will provide data support to federal, national and local studies and activities, and be pivotal in helping address a variety of policy areas.
Information on the physical and biogeochemical state and dynamics of the ocean Marine safety hydrodynamic forecasts and remote sensing blended products and forecasts for sea ice support applications like marine operations oil spill combat ship routing defense search rescue Marine resources long time series of in situ and remote sensing products as well as analysis reanalysis and forecasts of hydrodynamic and ecosystem models supporting applications such as fish stock management Marine and coastal environment supporting environmental applications such as monitoring water quality pollution coastal activities. Seasonal and weather forecasting with services such as long time series of in situ and remote sensing products as well as reanalysis of physical parameters at various temporal resolutions monthly seasonal yearly and short term forecast of ocean properties at global and regional scale supporting applications like climate monitoring ice surveys.