Editing Envisat (section)

== Mission ==
Envisat was launched as an [[Earth observation satellite]]. Its objective was to support the continuity of [[European Remote-Sensing Satellite]] missions, providing additional observations to improve environmental studies.

To accomplish the global and regional objectives of the mission, numerous scientific disciplines used the data acquired from the sensors on the satellite to study [[atmospheric chemistry]], [[ozone depletion]], [[biological oceanography]], ocean temperature and colour, [[wind waves]], [[hydrology]] ([[humidity]], [[flood]]s), agriculture and [[arboriculture]], natural hazards, [[digital elevation model]]ling (using [[interferometry]]), monitoring of maritime traffic, [[atmospheric dispersion modelling]] (pollution), [[cartography]] and [[snow]] and [[ice]].