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FLEX/S3 Tandem Mission Performance Analysis and Requirements Consolidation Study

Thu, 12/09/2021 - 09:43
Start Date: 
2011
Programme: 
Discovery
End Date: 
2014
Programme Reference: 
64
Country: 
Spain
Contractor: 
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Description: 

While most Earth Observation missions based on passive optical methods are intended to measure the light “reflected” by the surface, FLEX uses a completely innovative approach based on the measurement of the light “emitted” as fluorescence by terrestrial vegetation. Such fluorescence emission by vegetation has never been measured from space, which makes FLEX a true Explorer mission providing a type of information never available before.

Application Domain: 
Generic Technologies
Keywords: 
Copernicus
Earth Orbit
Earth explorers
Earth observation
FLEX
Interdisciplinary
LEO
Sentinel satellites
Space applications
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