The European Space Agency (ESA) Sodankylä Supersite contract was signed at the Living Planet Symposium 2025 on June 26 in Vienna. The established ESA-FMI Arctic-Boreal, Earth Science Calibration and Validation Supersite will be a flagship platform for developing new sensor technologies and new Earth Observation methodologies and applications for the high latitude regions of the planet.
Sodankylä Supersite, in the premises of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in Finnish Lapland, also provides reference observations for polar orbiting remote sensing satellites focusing on the ongoing and future missions of the European Space Agency and the Copernicus program of the European Union. FMI develops the Sodankylä facilities in co-operation with the Finnish private sector companies including Vaisala plc, Kelluu Ltd, Harp Ltd, Kuva Space Ltd, CGI Ltd and Huld Ltd.
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Principal Investigator, Prof. Hannakaisa Lindqvist, hannakaisa.lindqvist@fmi.fi
Co-PI, Dr. Anna Kontu, anna.kontu@fmi.fi
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