Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice sheets

Published on January 7, 2026
Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea – an important dynamic for climate and sea-rise modelling – has been captured over a 10-year period by satellites from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

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