Since 24 July 2024, the production of Level-2A products is unavailable for Sentinel-2 datatakes crossing the antimeridian.

The list of the impacted datatakes is being maintained in the list, pending the resolution of the anomaly.

A follow-up announcement will be provided as soon as the anomaly is resolved, including a recovery plan for the affected Level-2A production.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause to your activities.

Following the previous news about the on-board anomaly on Sentinel-1A, the issue is now fixed and caused unrecoverable loss of data on the 27th and 28th of June.
The overall impact is visible here
We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing.

An on-board anomaly on Sentinel-1A, still occurring at the time of writing, has so far induced the following unrecoverable loss of data:

• Datatakes from 06A248 to 06A29C are completely lost.
  
• Datatakes 06A2A0, 06A2A1, 06A29F are partially lost.
  

A comprehensive impact on the data production will be delivered as soon as the anomaly is resolved, which is expected in the course of the day.

We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing to your activity.

The Sentinel-3 Altimeter Processing Baseline (PB) 3.29 was deployed on June 22, 2024, at the ESA S3A Production Services, synchronised to the start of cycle 113 in NTC timeliness. It will be operated at the ESA S3B Production Service starting from July 1, 2024, with the beginning of cycle 94 in NTC timeliness.

The new Processing Baseline 3.29 includes the following main evolutions:

• A Sea Ice Type information is available in the Sea Ice Thematic Product, extracted from OSI-SAF 403-d products. Sea ice type classifies ice-covered areas into two categories, based on the sea ice age: multiyear ice versus seasonal first-year ice.
  
• A new surface type variable is available in the Land Ice Thematic Product, extracted from the BedMachine data set. With this information, users will be able to more accurately discriminate ice sheet and ice shelf surfaces in Antarctica and Greenland. The information is also used to determine with better accuracy the adequate set of geophysical corrections applied on the altimeter range.
  References:
  Greenland
  Antarctica
  
• New product variables are available in the Hydrology Thematic Product, providing information related to Open Loop Tracking Command (OLTC) settings. For each 20 Hz records, users will be able to know if the on-board tracking was finely tuned, or not, for monitoring water bodies overflown by the satellite. The location of these hydrological targets can be found here.
  
• The inclusion of additional islands, and the Maracaibo Lake, in the Hydrology Thematic Products. Polygons from the HydroLakes database are defined over the new selected islands.
  

PB 3.29 also includes the resolution of minor anomalies, particularly a correction for avoiding MWR missing data near moon calibration.

More information available in the Product Notice on SentiWiki

A Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre executed on Sentinel-1A on 24 June 2024 induced the following unrecoverable loss of data:

• Datatakes 06A077, 06A076, 06A07D, 06A07F, 06A087, 06A07C, 06A082,06A08D are completely lost
  

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused to your activity.

A Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre executed on Sentinel-1A on 24 June 2024 induced the following unrecoverable loss of data:

• Datatakes 06A077, 06A076, 06A07D, 06A07F, 06A087, 06A07C, 06A082,06A08D are completely lost

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3A In-Plane Manoeuvre, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 20/06/2024T07:28:34 to 20/06/2024T07:38:51 UTC

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B In-Plane manoeuvre, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 20/06/2024T08:35:32 to 20/06/2024T08:45:53 UTC

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B Moon calibration, data will be degraded on hereafter products:

• Copernicus Sentinel-3B SLSTR: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 22/06/2024T07:26:03 to 22/02/2024T08:16:33
  
• Copernicus Sentinel-3B OLCI: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 22/06/2024T08:10:48 to 22/02/2024T08:16:33
  
• Copernicus Sentinel-3B SRAL: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 22/02/2024T07:27:03 to 22/02/2024T07:58:23

We are pleased to announce a new processing baseline for Copernicus Sentinel-1 L1 and L2 products.
The products generated after the deployment of this version tag version 3.8.0 of the operational processor in the corresponding product metadata.

The new Processing Baseline includes:

• Level-1:
  
  • Correction of burst ID annotation in SLC products for acquisitions close the ascending nodes. This was a recurrent anomaly reported in quality disclaimers Nr. 215, 213 and correlated ones (see https://sar-mpc.eu/disclaimer/);
    
  • Transfer of all parameters related to configuration of RFI mitigation from internal configuration to the auxiliary data file AUX_PP1, making the parameters visible to end users.
    
• Level-2:
  
  • Support to Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-1D data
    
  • Correction of projection of the Simulated Cross Spectra extracted from simulated cross-spectral (in AUX_SCS auxiliary data file) into the computed cross spectra. This was a long stating software issue preventing further improvement of the swell inversion.
    
  • update of AUX_SCS format: change the format and content of the simulated cross spectra considered for swell inversion.
    
  • Declaration of a new auxiliary data file called AUX_ML2 which contains machine learning models considered by the Level-2 processor (currently for Total Significant Wave Height estimation and flagging of the swell partitions). Those models were not available for the end-users before and their placement in an auxiliary data file aims to support open science and an easier update of processing baseline after an eventual retraining.
    
  • Correction of denoising performed by the swell inversion module for estimation of wind speed and activation of the de-noising via dedicated AUX_PP2 configuration.
    
    

The new processing baseline will be deployed on 12th of June 2024.

The Sentinel-1 Level-2 OSW Algorithm Technical Baseline and Sentinel-1 product specification documents were minimally amended in accordance to the Level-2 changes, but with no change in product format. Moreover the Sentinel-1 Auxiliary product specification was extended to include description of the new auxiliary data file (AUX_ML2) and update description of AUX_SCS and AUX_PP1 formats. The applicable documents to version 3.8.0 can be accessed here.

Please note that upon deployment, a temporary deactivation of total HS in the L2 OSW product (oswTotalHs) will be implemented, as disclaimed in here. The date for reactivation of the variable remains to be confirmed

Due to Sentinel-5P orbit control manoeuvre (OCM) activities planned on 05/06/2024 (DoY 157), impact in the quality of all Sentinel-5p L1B and L2 products is expected from 17:47 UTC to 18:32 UTC affecting orbit 34438 and 34439.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause to your activities.

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3A In-Plane Manoeuvre, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 26/05/2024T08:25:32 to 26/05/2024T08:35:53 UTC

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B In-Plane manoeuvre, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 24/05/2024T07:00:32 to 24/05/2024T07:10:53 UTC

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3A Moon calibration, data will be degraded on hereafter products:

• Copernicus Sentinel-3A SLSTR: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 23/05/2024T22:52:12to 23/05/2024T23:42:42
  
• Copernicus Sentinel-3A OLCI: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 23/05/2024T23:36:57 to 23/05/2024T23:42:42
  
• Copernicus Sentinel-3A SRAL: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 23/05/2024T22:53:12 to 23/05/2024T23:24:32

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B SRAL calibration, SRAL products degradation is expected for sensing time from 05/06/2024T20:23:39 to 05/06/2024T20:25:09 UTC

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3A In-Plane Manoeuvre, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 24/04/2024T08:54:21 to 24/04/2024T09:05:09 UTC

Due to a Sentinel-5P Ground Segment issue on 21/04/2024, data with sensing time from 17:40 UTC to 19:24 UTC are unavailable, impacting TROPOMI L1B and L2 products on orbits 33799 and 33800.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause to your activities

We are pleased to announce a new processing baseline ID for Copernicus Sentinel-3 concerning the following products:

SLSTR L1 products SL_1_RBT

The new Processing Baseline includes:

• Inclusion of an Online Quality check parameter in SLSTR L1 product. To ease the distinction between nominal products and the ones affected by an operational anomaly, the definition of the Online Quality check parameter – included in the manifest file – has been reviewed. This parameter can now be associated with three different values: FAILED (in case of Manoeuvre, important percentage of missing data on all bands, …), DEGRADED (in case of pointing issue or inappropriate/missing VISCAL or NAVATT files) or PASSED (nominal conditions).
  
• Improvement of the SLSTR surface classification. This evolution is focusing on the coastline classification, considering the whole pixel field of view (FOV defined by 6 corners) acquired by SLSTR and no longer the center of the pixel. Following this modification, coastline is no longer discontinuous and is now defined as the interface between land and ocean areas but also as the interface between land and inland water pixels. Two additional parameters (count_water and count_water_orphan) have also been added in the flags_xx.nc file and are providing, for each coastline pixel, the number of FOV corners over water.
  

The land, ocean and inland waters classification are not impacted by this evolution. The tidal classification may be impacted over large discharges area: some pixels inside the tidal area may be missed by the tidal classification.

The new processing baseline will be deployed on 23 April 2024 for Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B.

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B Out-of-Plane Manoeuvre, SLSTR and SRAL products degradation is expected for sensing time from 28/03/2024T08:02:59 to 28/03/2024T08:39:00 UTC

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3A Moon calibration, data will be degraded on hereafter products:

Copernicus Sentinel-3A SLSTR: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 25/03/2024T16:44:17 to 25/03/2024T17:34:47
Copernicus Sentinel-3A OLCI: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 25/03/2024T17:28:34 to 25/03/2024T17:34:47
Copernicus Sentinel-3A SRAL: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 25/03/2024T16:45:17 to 25/03/2024T17:15:32