Sentinel-6 aims to improve the accuracy and coverage of the monitoring of the seas and oceans, initiated by previous satellite missions since 1993, thanks to a new and sophisticated radar altimetry technology, the most recent developed in Europe. It is in the seas, in fact, that all the signals on the warming of the planet Earth are concentrated, and they are not comforting: in recent years the water level has risen, on average, by 4.8 millimetres per year, based on previous satellite data. The data transmitted on ground and processed at EUMETSAT with the equipment provided by Exprivia provide useful information for the scientific community to monitor the ocean currents, improve weather and ocean forecasts and analyse climate changes. Exprivia was contracted by EUMETSAT and COPERNICUS, to supply the Payload Data Acquisition and Processing (PDAP) sub-segment, as well as the European Tracking, Telemetry and Command service for the control of the mission.Įxprivia - after winning the PDAP international public tender announced by EUMETSAT - designed and implemented a system responsible for acquiring the signal sent by the satellite to the ground systems and the subsequent transformation of the data flow into precise measurements of the sea surface height. Sentinel-6 is part of the COPERNICUSprogram it was developed thanks to an international cooperation by EUMETSAT, ESA, NASA, NOAAand with the support from CNES. The company Expriviawas key to the success of the Sentinel-6 system in-orbit validation. All the ground-based infrastructure and software useful for the study of climate change and weather forecasting are currently being validated, in preparation for the start of routine operations later in December this year.Īp-The architecture design and engineering that allow the data from the satellite Sentinel-6 to be acquired and processed into scientific data useful for the study of climate change and weather forecasting is truly Italian. GLOBAL WARMING: EXPRIVIA TECHNOLOGY FOR COPERNICUS SEAĪfter a successful launch in November 2020, the Satellite In-Orbit Verification activities have been concluded.
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