A deliverable of the Sentinels Rolling Archive, Operations Maintenance and Evolution contract, this document provides an annual look at the Sentinel Data Access Service operated by the Serco Gael consortium for ESA as part of the Copernicus programme.

This Annual Report presents the performance of the Copernicus Data Access System operated by ESA during 2022 and analyses the trends visible in the public uptake of Copernicus Sentinel data. This is the eighth such report released by the data access service provider, Serco Italia SpA.

This year ESA has decided to align the reporting year with the calendar year, in order to coincide better with the reporting needs of the European Commission. Whereas in previous years the annual report covered the period 1 December to 30 November, therefore, this year the reporting year runs from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

As a result, statistics for the month of December 2021 are not included in the figures for the year 2022. They are, however, included in all cumulative statistics, unless explicitly stated otherwise.