{"id":2600,"date":"2026-03-12T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/esas-hydrognss-on-track-to-scout-for-water\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:12:00","slug":"esas-hydrognss-on-track-to-scout-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/esas-hydrognss-on-track-to-scout-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/10\/hydrognss_scouting_for_water\/26912191-1-eng-GB\/HydroGNSS_Scouting_for_water_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"HydroGNSS: Scouting for water\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just three months after launch, the European Space Agency\u2019s twin HydroGNSS satellites are already proving their capabilities in orbit. By exploiting reflected signals from navigation satellites \u2013 the sophisticated technique they use to generate Delay Doppler Maps in order to \u2018scout\u2019 for water across Earth\u2019s surface \u2013 these compact satellites are beginning to reveal the scientific potential they were built to unlock, even while still in their commissioning phase.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three months after launch, the European Space Agency\u2019s twin HydroGNSS satellites are already proving their capabilities in orbit. By exploiting reflected signals from navigation satellites \u2013 the sophisticated technique they use to generate Delay Doppler Maps in order to \u2018scout\u2019 for water across Earth\u2019s surface \u2013 these compact satellites are beginning to reveal the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}