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Digital Earth Africa Sentinel-1 Radiometrically Terrain Corrected
DE Africa’s Sentinel-1 backscatter product is developed to be compliant with the CEOS Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD4L) specifications. The Sentinel-1 mission, composed of a constellation of two C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, are operated by European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the Copernicus Programme. The mission currently collects data every 12 days over Africa at a spatial resolution of approximately 20 m. Radar backscatter measures the amount of microwave radiation
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Licence: Access to Sentinel data is free, full and open for the broad Regional, National, European and International user community. View [Terms and Conditions](https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/documents/247904
Evidence quality: 27
Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
Evidence
- arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-sentinel-1, arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-sentinel-1-inventory, arn:aws:sns:af-south-1:543785577597:deafrica-sentinel-1-scene-topic
- https://registry.opendata.aws/deafrica-sentinel-1/
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