{"id":2756,"date":"2026-05-15T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:04:29","slug":"sentinel-2a-extended-until-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/sentinel-2a-extended-until-end-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel 2A extended until end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sentinel-2_pillars-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sentinel-2_pillars-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sentinel-2_pillars-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sentinel-2_pillars-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sentinel-2_pillars-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sentinel-2_pillars.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: ESA\u2013P. Carril \u00a9ESA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"46\" height=\"33\" src=\"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ISL.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Framlenging Sentinel-2A lei\u00f0ir til t\u00ed\u00f0ari athugana yfir \u00cdslandi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sentinel-2A-gervihn\u00f6tturinn, elsti gervihn\u00f6tturinn \u00ed Sentinel-2-stj\u00f6rnumerkinu, <a href=\"https:\/\/dataspace.copernicus.eu\/news\/2026-5-15-sentinel-2a-extension-campaign-prolonged-until-end-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mun halda \u00e1fram starfsemi til loka \u00e1rs 2026<\/a>. \u00deessi framlenging \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ir a\u00f0 Sentinel-2A mun starfa samhli\u00f0a Sentinel-2B og Sentinel-2C og mynda \u00feannig \u00feriggja gervihnatta kerfi \u00ed sta\u00f0 hins hef\u00f0bundna tveggja gervihnatta kerfis. Fyrir \u00cdsland \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ir \u00feetta fleiri t\u00e6kif\u00e6ri til athugana, <a href=\"https:\/\/sentinels.copernicus.eu\/copernicus\/sentinel-2\/acquisition-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">styttri endurkomut\u00edma<\/a> og auknar l\u00edkur \u00e1 a\u00f0 n\u00e1 sk\u00fdjalausum myndum til umhverfisv\u00f6ktunar, landflokkunar, j\u00f6klam\u00e6linga, strandv\u00f6ktunar og v\u00f6ktunar \u00e1 n\u00e1tt\u00faruv\u00e1. Framlengda verkefni\u00f0 gerir einnig m\u00f6gulegar s\u00e9rstakar a\u00f0ger\u00f0ir sem eru venjulega ekki hluti af Sentinel-2-\u00e1\u00e6tluninni, svo sem <a href=\"https:\/\/dataspace.copernicus.eu\/news\/2026-6-3-copernicus-sentinel-2-night-time-campaign-dataset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n\u00fdlegt gagnasafn \u00far n\u00e6turmyndat\u00f6kuherfer\u00f0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"46\" height=\"33\" src=\"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/EN.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sentinel-2A extension brings more frequent observations for Iceland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sentinel-2A satellite, the oldest satellite in the Sentinel-2 constellation, <a href=\"https:\/\/dataspace.copernicus.eu\/news\/2026-5-15-sentinel-2a-extension-campaign-prolonged-until-end-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will continue operating until the end of 2026<\/a>. This extension means that Sentinel-2A will work alongside Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-2C, creating a three-satellite constellation instead of the usual two. For Iceland, this brings more frequent observation opportunities, <a href=\"https:\/\/sentinels.copernicus.eu\/copernicus\/sentinel-2\/acquisition-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shorter revisit times<\/a> and a better chance of capturing cloud-free images for environmental monitoring, land cover mapping, glaciers, coasts and natural hazards. The extended campaign also enables special activities that are not normally part of the Sentinel-2 programme, such as the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dataspace.copernicus.eu\/news\/2026-6-3-copernicus-sentinel-2-night-time-campaign-dataset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">night-time acquisition campaign dataset<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Framlenging Sentinel-2A lei\u00f0ir til t\u00ed\u00f0ari athugana yfir \u00cdslandi Sentinel-2A-gervihn\u00f6tturinn, elsti gervihn\u00f6tturinn \u00ed Sentinel-2-stj\u00f6rnumerkinu, mun halda \u00e1fram starfsemi til loka \u00e1rs 2026. \u00deessi framlenging \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ir a\u00f0 Sentinel-2A mun starfa samhli\u00f0a Sentinel-2B og Sentinel-2C og mynda \u00feannig \u00feriggja gervihnatta kerfi \u00ed sta\u00f0 hins hef\u00f0bundna tveggja gervihnatta kerfis. Fyrir \u00cdsland \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ir \u00feetta fleiri t\u00e6kif\u00e6ri til athugana, styttri endurkomut\u00edma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,32,8,76],"tags":[13,14,77],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copernicus","category-iceland","category-news","category-sentinel","tag-copernicus","tag-iceland","tag-sentinel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}