The Copernicus program consists of around 30 Earth-observing satellites and, according to ESA, is "the most ambitious Earth observation program to date".
This ambitious Earth observation project will gather key data to inform climate studies, but also to help enforce European laws.
Europe is looking to roll out its ambitious Earth observation programme even though the long-term budget to support it has still not been agreed.
"We are using this flyby for new and ambitious targeting observations of the planet," said Noam R. Izenberg, a scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University who is responsible for one of Messenger's instruments.
Copernicus is arguably the most ambitious Earth-observation programme for general environmental monitoring ever conceived.
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) is the most ambitious operational Earth Observation programme to date and will provide global, timely and easily accessible information in application domains such as land, marine, atmosphere, emergency response, climate change and security.
Dr Bond is one of the lead authors of an ambitious attempt to assess observations and models of black carbon, and quantify their uncertainties, that should be published shortly.The UNEP report puts the average global cooling that could be achieved with black-carbon control measures at 0.3 watts per square metre, taking into account all the cloud effects and other complications.
"Freedom" sucks you in with its shrewd observations and the ambitious breadth.
Though I'll freely admit that not every episode works for me, the "Community" outings that combine astute emotional observations with giddily ambitious concepts and witty cultural references make the whole Greendale enterprise an ongoing delight.
Based on clinical observations, migraine patients were described as ambitious, perfectionist, rigid, obsessional, and very achievement oriented people [ 12, 13].
