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Spotlight on EO community

In a series of interviews, meet scientists who use ESA EO data in their research, experts in the community, and ESA teams who manage the missions.

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    7 May 2024

    Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: EUSI

    European Space Imaging (EUSI) is one of ESA’s suppliers of commercial Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for scientific research in Earth Observation (EO).

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    4 Apr 2024

    Meet the Earth Online Editorial & Graphics Services Team

    The Earth Online Editorial Service produces diverse publications, which facilitate ESA and TPM data discovery and exploitation, ensuring that the website maintains a returning and ever-growing user base.

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    9 Nov 2023

    Introducing the Earth Observation Principal Investigators Team

    Third Party Missions (TPMs) are Earth Observation (EO) missions that are owned or operated by other agencies. ESA has an agreement with these third parties to distribute data products from their missions to scientific users, or for services in pre-operational phases.

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    19 Oct 2023

    An overview of the EarthCARE mission

    In this video, meet Björn Frommknecht, Mission Manager of ESA's upcoming EarthCARE satellite.

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    12 Oct 2023

    Introducing the EarthCARE Mission Manager

    In this video, Björn Frommknecht describes his role as Mission Manager of EarthCARE, and what he enjoys most about his involvement with this upcoming Earth Explorer.

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    4 July 2023

    An overview of the SMOS mission

    In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission.

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    30 June 2023

    Meet the Quality Assurance for EO Team

    The Quality Assurance For Earth Observation (also known as QA4EO) Service began its operations on 1 November 2019, providing support to the Data Quality and Algorithms Management Office at ESRIN, within the Sensor Performance, Processing and Algorithm section.

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    27 June 2023

    An overview of the Biomass mission

    In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's upcoming Biomass mission.

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    20 June 2023

    Introducing the Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager

    In this video, Klaus Scipal describes his role as Mission Manager of Biomass and SMOS, and what he enjoys about his involvement with these dedicated science missions.

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    13 June 2023

    Meet one of ESA's first Africa Programme Research Fellows

    Research Fellow, Dr Gladys Mosomtai, from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), works on applying Earth observation data to better understand the spread of infectious disease in livestock, in Kenya.

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    19 Apr 2023

    An overview of the Aeolus mission

    In this overview video, ESA's mission manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes the successes and challenges of this amazing mission, whose impacts will live long beyond its lifetime in space.

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    29 Mar 2023

    Introducing the Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager

    In this video, Tommaso Parrinello - CryoSat Mission Manager - talks about ESA's ice mission and some of its achievements after more than 10 years of operations.

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    24 Mar 2023

    Introducing the Aeolus and CryoSat missions

    In this video, Tommaso Parrinello - Mission Manager of Aeolus and CryoSat - describes what is involved in managing the missions and the unique challenges offered by such innovative satellites.

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    17 Mar 2023

    Introducing Tommaso Parrinello

    In this short introduction, ESA's Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes his role in these two diverse missions.

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    6 Mar 2023

    Introducing the TPM Ground Segment Operational Team

    Third Party Missions (TPMs) are Earth Observation (EO) missions that are not owned or operated by ESA. The agency has an agreement with these third parties to distribute data products from their missions to scientific users, or for services in pre-operational phases.

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    9 Feb 2023

    Meet the EOHelp Team

    The Earth Observation Help Desk, or EOHelp, together with Copernicus services, is the main ESA contact point for Earth Observation user communities.

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    22 Sept 2022

    Meet a young researcher who studies the behaviour of volcanoes worldwide

    Researcher Camila Novoa Lizama, of the University of Leeds, recently analysed how the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery over the Puyehue Cordón-Caulle Volcanic Complex, in Chile, acquired by ALOS-1, Envisat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites, helped her team to better comprehend the temporal and spatial behaviour of ground displacements before, during and after the volcano’s last eruption.

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    11 May 2022

    Meet the Manager of the Earthnet TPM Programme

    Peggy Fischer is the Manager of the Earthnet TPM Programme and the Mission Manager of ESA Third Party Missions (TPMs).

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    22 Apr 2022

    Meet a young researcher who uses Aeolus data to measure atmospheric gravity waves

    Researcher Timothy Banyard, from the University of Bath, hopes to improve weather forecasting through the measurement of gravity waves (GWs). While GWs are difficult to measure due to their scale size and location, Tim recently demonstrated the Earth Explorer Aeolus' ability to observe GWs over the Southern Andes during the austral winter of 2021.

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    12 Apr 2022

    Interviewing Mirko Albani

    ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.