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Lake Macleod, Australia: As seen by PROBA-1
30 July 2025
This PROBA-1 CHRIS image, captured on 10 March 2006, shows the northern part of Lake Macleod in Western Australia.
Meet the Quality Assurance for EO Team
12 Nov 2024
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.
Agriculture and Space: What Capabilities Can Satellites Bring?
23 Oct 2024
Satellites enable the digital capture of vast and diverse agricultural data, which are essential for modern farming. By providing a comprehensive view of Earth's surface, satellites contribute invaluable information on crop health, soil moisture, and vegetation.
A Satellite Perspective of Icebergs A-68 and B-46 in Antarctica, 2018
25 May 2024
See the transformations of Iceberg B-46 and Iceberg A-68 through Proba-V satellite images.
PROBA Imagery (Earthquake), December 2004
24 May 2024
See images acquired by the PROBA satellite in January 2005, depicting areas over Thailand, India, and Indonesia.
Meet one of ESA's first Africa Programme Research Fellows
13 June 2023
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.
PROBA-V data improve surface albedo products in Africa
8 May 2023
As ESA’s PROBA-V satellite marks its 10-year launch milestone, data tasked during the mission’s lifetime are still being used to assess changes in land cover.
New cross-calibration readies PROBA-1 data for climate research
20 Apr 2023
While PROBA-1 has already exceeded expectations by suppling over 21 years of Earth observation hyperspectral data, recent cross-calibration activities are aiming to ensure the data will robustly serve long time-series research, even when the satellite ends operations.
Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data
9 Dec 2022
ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.
A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections
22 July 2022
A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.
Space helps monitor Earth’s changing biosphere
21 July 2022
Earth’s biosphere is continually changing. Through its pioneering Earth observation missions, ESA is making critical contributions to monitor these changes and their impacts on Earth’s water and carbon cycles.
PROBA-1 - From technology demonstration to long-term Earth observation
28 June 2022
Learn about ESA's PROBA-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) mission in our new infographic.
Satellite data boost global understanding of land surface
2 Feb 2022
Understanding our changing land surface is essential in the study of climate change. Satellites are used to monitor changes to the material that covers Earth’s surface, so-called land cover, such as vegetation and water.
Ship trails in the Bay of Biscay observed using PROBA-V imagery
13 Dec 2021
Ship trails have been perceived as convincing evidence of aerosol-cloud interaction. Ship emissions have been proven to contribute by about 1.9% and 2.9% to the increase in the global total and fine-mode aerosol optical thickness (AOT) respectively over a five year period (Peters et al. 20212).
Long-live PROBA-V
10 Nov 2021
After eight years in space, the PROBA-V satellite ended its vegetation mission last 31 October, having gone well beyond expectations for global vegetation monitoring.
An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
8 Nov 2021
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
A long way for a little satellite
22 Oct 2021
The PROBA-1 satellite, a technology demonstrator later turned into an Earth observation mission – and just a cubic metre in volume – is reaching 20 years of continuity, making it a huge success.
ESA Third Party Missions timeline
23 Sept 2021
We've released a new timeline to illustrate the history of the ESA Third Party Missions.
1 km resolution aerosol optical thickness retrieved from PROBA-V
15 Mar 2021
The ESA SPAR@MEP project aims to deliver a long-term data record (LTDR) of aerosol optical properties and surface reflectance from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V observations.
The Earthnet Programme: 40 years of evolution and future challenges
2 July 2020
ESA's Earthnet Programme provided the initial means to access and exploit Earth Observation data.