Scientific Exploitation of Sentinel-1 within ESA's SEOM programme element

ESA's Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions (SEOM) programme represents a pathfinder for science and innovation addressing the needs and requirements of the Earth system science community in terms of providing novel observations, new algorithms and products that will be a driver for new and innovative scientific discoveries. The current paper aims to provide a brief overview of the various SEOM activities relevant to the first Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission and to present the main achievements and discuss future opportunities for research.