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This document is a Aeolus Data Innovation Science Cluster DISC verification report from the fourth reprocessing campaign for the FM-A laser. Period covering from September 2018 - June 2019.

This document is a summary of quality of Aeolus data products from 4th Reprocessing Campaign covering the period from 03 09 2018 to 16 06 2019 (first FM-A laser period)

The Aeolus collection of additional products comprises the Annotated Instrument Source Packages (AISP), orbits files and a variety of auxiliary files for calibration and configuration used in the Aeolus products processing chain. The Aeolus AISP data product (TLMX__VC1) is the raw data downlinked from satellite and is available as binary data block file (.DBL) with an additional header file (.HDR). The auxiliary files cover the instrument and satellite characterization data (AUX_CHAR), the harmonic and range-dependent bias correction data (AUX_HBE, AUX_RDB), the in-flight calibration data (AUX_RRC, AUX_MRC, AUX_RBC, AUX_DCMZ, AUX_ZWC…), and the algorithm configuration parameters and settings (AUX_PAR). Furthermore, information on the atmospheric state (e.g. pressure, temperature, humidity etc. from the ECMWF Numerical Weather Predication (NWP) model) (AUX_MET) and an atmospheric backscatter-to-extinction ratio climatology (AUX_CLM) are available. The Aeolus auxiliary files are provided in Earth Explorer Format (.EEF).

During the 12 years that ESA’s ice mission – CryoSat – has been monitoring Earth’s ice masses from space, simultaneous airborne measurements were made by ASIRAS.

Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.

A decade after Envisat beamed its final image to the planet, the pioneering ESA mission is continuing to foster improved understanding of Earth’s systems.

The second in the Coastal and Marine Applications of SAR Workshop series covered a range of topics on applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in coastal and marine environments.

This workshop provided a forum for presenting progress on the development of the GOCE mission's payload, ground segment and data products.

The "Advances in SAR Oceanography from Envisat and ERS missions" was a thematic workshop on SAR remote sensing techniques for oceanography.

The main theme for the virtual 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) was "Remote Sensing: Global Perspectives for Local Solutions". The event gathered those engaged in the fields of geoscience and remote sensing.

The European Space Agency and the Norwegian Space Centre jointly organised the fourth SAR oceanography workshop, 'SEASAR 2012', entitled 'Advances in SAR Oceanography'.

ESA conducted an airborne campaign to map sea surface salinity named "CoSMOS-OS" that took place in April 2006 over the Norway Sea off the coast of Stavenger.

The Campaign for Validating the Operation of SMOS (coSMOS) was designed to acquire SMOS-like data so that the algorithms were fine-tuned and properly validated before the launch of SMOS mission in 2007.

This ESA course was devoted to training the next generation of Earth Observation scientists to exploit data from ESA and Third Party Mission instruments for ocean science and application development.

The 2009 workshop focused on theory and methods in the fields of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry

The 2004 workshop was an opportunity to present and exchange experiences and knowledge from work on inter-comparing large scale optical sensors at different product levels.

The ESA Directorate for Observation of the Earth and its Environment held the 3rd ERS Symposium, in 1997, where many of the results from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions were presented and discussed by the scientific community.