File:United Kingdom by Proba-V.jpg

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United Kingdom by Proba-V
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Proba-V satellite
Title
United Kingdom by Proba-V
Description
English: Launched on 7 May 2013, Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.

This cloud-free image of the United Kingdom, acquired by Proba-V on 19 July 2015, has a 300 m per pixel resolution and is composed of cloud, shadow, and snow/ice screened observations over a period of 1 day.

The United Kingdom is one of ESA’s 22 member states.

Proba-V imagery at 1km resolution is owned by ESA, Proba-V imagery at 300m resolution is owned by Belspo, the Belgian Science Policy Office.

VITO Remote Sensing processes and distribute Proba-V data to users worldwide on behalf of ESA and Belspo.

This image is part of a set to celebrate the launch of ESA’s new Open Access (OA) policy for images, video and data: 22 freshly processed and thus new images of ESA’s 22 member states have just been released under the OA compliant Creative Commons CC-BY SA 3.0 IGO licence.
Depicted place United Kingdom
Date 19 July 2015
European Space Agency
Accession number
373393
Credit line ESA / Belspo – produced by VITO
Source http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/02/United_Kingdom_by_Proba-V

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