Copernicus Programme | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:03:58 1 History
00:05:12 1.1 Chronology
00:11:11 2 Earth Observation missions
00:11:21 2.1 Sentinel missions
00:15:19 2.2 Contributing missions
00:20:50 3 iIn-Situ/i Coordination
00:23:16 4 Services component
00:26:57 5 Interaction
00:27:07 5.1 Users
00:28:04 6 Other relevant initiatives
00:29:49 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed by the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States and EU Agencies. Copernicus Programme has been established by the Regulation (EU) No 377/2014 in 2014, building on the previous EU's Earth monitoring initiative GMES (est. by Regulation (EU) No 911/2010).
It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security.The objective is to use vast amount of global data from satellites and from ground-based, airborne and seaborne measurement systems to produce timely and quality information, services and knowledge, and to provide autonomous and independent access to information in the domains of environment and security on a global level in order to help service providers, public authorities and other international organizations improve the quality of life for the citizens of Europe. In other words, it pulls together all the information obtained by the Copernicus environmental satellites, air and ground stations and sensors to provide a comprehensive picture of the "health" of Earth. 
One of the crucial benefits of the Copernicus Programme is that the data and information produced in the framework of Copernicus are made available on a full, open and free-of-charge basis (subject to appropriate conditions and limitations) to all its users and public in general, thus allowing many new downstream services to be developed.
The value-adding services offered by Copernicus cover six main interacting themes: atmosphere, marine, land, climate, emergency and security.
Copernicus builds upon three components:

the space component (observation satellites and associated ground segment with missions observing land, atmospheric and oceanographic parameters) This comprises two types of satellite missions, ESA's five families of dedicated Sentinel (space missions) and missions from other space agencies, called Contributing Missions,
in-situ measurements (ground-based and airborne data gathering networks providing information on oceans, continental surface and atmosphere),
services developed and managed by Copernicus and offered to its users and public in general.Its cost during 1998 to 2020 are estimated at 6.7 billion euros with around €4.3bn spent in the period 2014 to 2020 and shared between the EU (66%) and ESA (33%) with benefits of the data to the EU economy estimated at roughly 30 billion euros through 2030. ESA as a main partner has performed much of the design and oversees and co-funds the development of Sentinel mission 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 with each sentinel mission consisting of at least 2 satellites and some like sentinel 1 consisting of 4 satellites. They will also provide the instruments for MTG and MetOp-SG weather satellites of EUMETSAT where ESA and EUMETSAT will also coordinate the delivery of data from upwards of 30 satellites that form the contributing satellite missions to Copernicus.