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Improving air quality monitoring with inter-agency cooperation
16 May 2024
As urban area’s expand, our planet grapples with a relentless environmental challenge: air pollution. Remote sensing satellites play a critical role in monitoring air pollution, and a constellation of three geostationary ultraviolet-visible satellite instruments will soon be in orbit to revolutionise the way scientists observe air quality.
Showcasing Fundamental Data Records for Altimetry
14 May 2024
ESA has developed a comprehensive suite of Earth system data records as part of the Fundamental Data Records for Altimetry (FDR4ALT) project.
Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: EUSI
7 May 2024
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).
Meet the Earth Online Editorial & Graphics Services Team
4 Apr 2024
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.
Ten years of Swarm data help reveal processes in Earth’s core
26 Mar 2024
The tenth birthday of ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation has been a game changer for research into Earth’s magnetic field and core dynamics, as set out by an ESA-funded project.
Explore sample data products from Third Party Missions
19 Mar 2024
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of over 50 satellite missions from commercial and public organisations worldwide.
How scientists are unlocking the potential of SAOCOM
14 Mar 2024
A team of scientists has drawn on SAOCOM data to measure the heights of forests in Argentina, marking the first time that tree canopies have been mapped using the two-satellite constellation.
Showcasing success stories from ESA's Heritage Missions
12 Mar 2024
Find out how ESA's Heritage Space Programme data continue to help, even decades after they finished operations, in our latest infographic.
Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm
7 Mar 2024
In November 2023, Swarm celebrated an impressive ten years in orbit. In that time, ESA’s magnetic mission has honed in on all sorts of mysteries - from tussling magnetic blobs to animal migration.
Showcasing the NovaSAR-1 radar satellite
21 Feb 2024
Learn about the NovaSAR-1 mission in our new infographic.
Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications
7 Feb 2024
As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements in powering climate-related applications.
Space data support Earth’s ecosystems
30 Jan 2024
ESA’s Earth observation (EO) missions are making a critical contribution to monitoring transformations in our planet’s ecosystems, helping track changes in the vegetation, soil, and ocean that affect these systems.
Learn more about Envisat MERIS Full Resolution Level-1 data
29 Jan 2024
Learn more about the Envisat MERIS Level 1 products in our latest infographic.
How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past
7 Dec 2023
Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.
CryoSat land ice data track destabilisation of Antarctic glacier
5 Dec 2023
Even apparently stable glaciers in Antarctica are at risk of losing large quantities of ice due to warming seas. The warning comes after satellite data showed the Cadman glacier – previously stable for 50 years - retreated by 8 km between November 2018 and May 2021.
Discover Earth like never before: the HEDAVI tool
4 Dec 2023
The Heritage Data Visualisation tool, or HEDAVI, enables the analysis of global spatio-temporal dynamics of natural and artificial environments, covering over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.
CryoSat safe and sound
24 Nov 2023
A fuel leak aboard the CryoSat satellite threatened to bring the mission to an end in 2025 however operators at ESOC initiated a swap to a back-up system thus saving the satellite for years to come.
ESA promotes radio frequency monitoring as Spire becomes TPM
23 Nov 2023
The global company Spire, which specialises in using continuous global monitoring to track aircraft, ships and weather patterns using a large constellation of CubeSats, is now an ESA Third Party Mission.
Swarm set for continued success after 10 years in orbit
22 Nov 2023
ESA’s mission to unravel the mysteries of Earth’s magnetic field has just reached a decade of successful operations.
Focusing on the PlanetScope ESA archive
14 Nov 2023
Learn more about the PlanetScope ESA Archive in our latest infographic.