Ahead of the Sentinel-2B launch on Monday 6 March in Kourou, the European Commission’s director for space policy and Copernicus, Philippe Brunet, explained that the European Commission did not currently have a methodology that could enable it to determine the economic impact of the European terrestrial observation programme, with any precision.
The Copernicus programme is characterised by the huge quantities of terrestrial observation data that can be freely accessed. Since the beginning...