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How ESA uses space data to explore deep Earth
ESA missions help scientists understand how Earth's core, mantle, and crust impact the planet's changing environment.
How space data are transforming the global food system
Earth observation is enabling data-driven change in agriculture, helping farmers adapt to today's challenges.
Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones
ESA's Earth observation activities are helping scientists and the impact of climate change on ice loss.
SAOCOM reveals how rock glaciers creep across the landscape
30 Sept 2024
Scientists are using the impressive capabilities of the SAOCOM constellation to investigate how creeping masses of frozen debris move across mountainous periglacial landscapes.
ESA's data provider: how ICEYE contributes to Earth observation
26 Sept 2024
ICEYE delivers unparalleled persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth, faster and more accurately than ever before.
CryoSat used to investigate retreat of crucial Antarctic ice shelf
19 Sept 2024
Observations from ESA’s CryoSat mission have helped scientists to investigate the long-term evolution of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf in West Antarctica, delivering new insight into the complex mechanisms that are contributing to its continued retreat.
5 reasons to be excited about Cryo2ice
16 Sept 2024
We are living in a golden age of satellite altimetry. ESA’s CryoSat mission, with its unbroken 14-year (and counting) radar altimeter record of global ice and water, is right at the heart of it.
Showcasing ESA's HEDAVI Earth observation tool
27 Aug 2024
ESA's HEDAVI (HEritage DAta VIsualiation) is a platform that allows users to freely access over 40 years of ESA Earth observation Heritage, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.
Third Party Missions data contribute to success of ESA's Global Development Assistance
22 Aug 2024
ESA's GDA is the Global Development Assistance programme, implemented in partnership with International Financial Institutions, to mainstream Earth Observation (EO) technology in global development operations by responding directly to their operational requirements and needs of stakeholders in developing countries.
Showcasing success stories from ESA's CryoSat mission
8 Aug 2024
ESA's ice mission, CryoSat, was launched in 2010 and carried an advanced radar altimeter to measure Earth's cryosphere.
Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: Airbus
31 July 2024
Airbus' space technologies have a growing impact on people's daily life: from deep-space exploration and scientific missions, to today's most reliable secure telecommunications and Earth observation (EO) satellites.
How ESA's Third Party Missions support European commercialisation
23 July 2024
ESA's Third Party Missions programme consists of Earth observation satellites that are owned by commercial and public organisations around the world.
Showcasing Earth Explorer success stories from around the world
16 July 2024
The Earth Explorers programme consists of a series of satellites that share the common goal of advancing Earth science by helping answer principal scientific questions through observation of Earth’s key systems.
Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: GEOSAT
26 June 2024
GEOSAT is one of ESA’s suppliers of commercial Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for rapid-response disaster monitoring and mitigation.
Explaining the Terms and Conditions for ESA Third Party Missions data
14 June 2024
ESA's Third Party Missions (TPM) programme enables users, known as Principal Investigators (PIs), to access data delivered by more than 50 missions for use in research and development activities.
Heritage data provide insight into Alpine landslides
30 May 2024
Using radar data from ESA’s Envisat, ERS and Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites, scientists have shown how satellite radar interferometry can shed light on landslide processes in the Swiss Alps.
What is the Swarm Virtual Workspace for Earth Scientists (VirES)?
29 May 2024
Learn more about Swarm VirES in this infographic.
Beyond cloud nine: 10 reasons to be excited about EarthCARE
27 May 2024
With the launch of EarthCARE, ESA’s most complex Earth Explorer satellite yet, clouds, aerosols and radiation are about to become a whole lot clearer – at least scientifically.
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.