ESA, through the Third Party Missions (TPM) Programme, is pleased to announce that three new collections of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) data have been opened to the public. These virtual collections, offering comprehensive coverage of Europe and North Africa, are part of the ongoing efforts to enhance access to historical satellite imagery for research, environmental monitoring, and other geospatial applications.

The three collections, now available for access, span distinct periods of the Landsat-5 TM mission:

• Europe and North Africa Coverage 1984-1985
• Europe and North Africa Coverage 1986-1989
• Europe and North Africa Coverage 1995-1998

These collections are based on the parent Landsat-5 TM ESA Archive collection, which stores all the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper high-quality ortho-rectified L1T dataset acquired by ESA over the Fucino, Matera, Kiruna and Maspalomas visibility masks, as well as campaign data over Malindi, Bishkek, Chetumal, and Libreville. The added value of these collections is the upstream filtering that selected the complete coverage of the area with the best cloud-free images.

With the opening of these datasets, users now have enhanced access to satellite imagery that supports a wide range of applications, from agriculture and forestry management to urban planning and environmental protection.

Utilisation of this data is subject to the Terms and Conditions for ESA's Third Party Missions scheme