The procurement and processing of satellite data for the Netherlands Satellite Data Portal

In 2012 - the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) has initiated a project to provide any Dutch entity with selected satellite data of The Netherlands - free of charge. This Netherlands Satellite Data Portal (SatDP) has successfully filled the gap of free data until the launch of the first Sentinel satellites. With the launch of the Sentinel-1A mission in 2014 and Sentinel-2A in 2015 - the SatDP project entered a new phase. Higher resolution data - both radar data and optical data - were centrally purchased by the Dutch government and distributed complementary to the Sentinel data via the Netherlands Satellite Data Portal. This portal has developed into the platform in the Netherlands for access to high resolution satellite data in support of space applications. Data...