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TOOLS & TOOLBOXES

Find the tools you need to visualise, analyse and process the European Space Agency's Earth observation data.
  • OADS Download

    12 June 2025

    The OADS download tool is a Python script for downloading EarthCARE data from ESA’s Online Access and Distribution System (OADS). It is designed to simplify automated data access by allowing users to quickly search and download data via the command line.

  • CARDINAL Campaign Tools (CCT) ATLID Simulator

    12 June 2025

    The CARDINAL Campaign Tools (CCT) Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID) simulator gitlab project, developed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), provides a collection of tools that can be used to simulate ATLID observations, based on ground- or aeroplane-based optical properties profile measurements.

  • ectools

    3 June 2025

    ectools is a collection of Python tools developed by Shannon Mason (ECMWF) with contributions from ESA EarthCARE Level 2 processor developers, for input/output, postprocessing, and publication-quality plotting and analysis for EarthCARE Level 1 and Level 2 products.

  • EarthCARE Imagery Portal

    28 May 2025

    The EarthCARE Imagery Portal, developed by McGill University, is a web-based platform to explore and visualize EarthCARE Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID) and Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) data.

  • MSI Simulator Tool

    27 May 2025

    The Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) Simulator Tool, developed by the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), performs forward simulations of MSI-like Level 1 radiances and brightness temperatures using, for example, ground- or airborne-based measurements as input.

  • EarthCARE Timeline Viewer

    14 Mar 2025

    The EarthCARE Timeline Viewer is a JavaScript application, developed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), running in your browser and can be used to quickly and easily browse the EarthCARE data products through time.

  • Exploring Earth

    7 Mar 2025

    Exploring Earth provides access to real-time satellite data, with advanced search functions and data visualisation tools.

  • CS2EO

    21 Mar 2024

    CS2EO is a data catalogue that allows users to easily and quickly combine and download airborne and spaceborne altimetry data from CryoSat-2, ICESat-2, CryoVEx, IceBridge and CryoTEMPO-EOLIS.

  • PROBA-V Mission Exploitation Platform (MEP)

    31 Jan 2024

    The MEP PROBA-V addresses a broad vegetation user community with the final aim to ease and increase the use of PROBA-V data by any user.

  • Earth Online Visuals

    18 Dec 2023

    The Earth Online Visuals app displays interactive 3D models of ESA’s Earth Explorers and the Envisat and GOCE Heritage satellites. The models detail the mission payloads and where the instruments are placed on the satellites.

  • Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

    21 Nov 2023

    The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem provides free instant access to a wide range of data and services from the Copernicus Sentinel missions.

  • FedEO

    21 Oct 2022

    FedEO is a data catalogue that provides a unique entry point to a number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, European and Canadian missions.

  • Aeolus VRE

    23 Mar 2022

    The Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is the latest extension to the VirES for Aeolus service, which offers more direct and in-depth data exploitation of the Aeolus mission. The VRE is a cloud service that provides a web-based development environment in the form of a JupyterLab workspace.

  • CryoSat app for Android

    21 June 2021

    Download the CryoSat application to discover what the mission is about, how it works and what the elements of the space and ground segment that makes this mission unique are.

  • CryoSat app for iPad

    21 June 2021

    Download the CryoSat application to discover what the mission is about, how it works and what the elements of the space and ground segment that makes this mission unique are.

  • CryoSat app for iPhone

    21 June 2021

    Download the CryoSat application to discover what the mission is about, how it works and what the elements of the space and ground segment that makes this mission unique are.

  • Heritage Missions app for iOS

    21 June 2021

    Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

  • Heritage Missions app for Android

    21 June 2021

    Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

  • SMOS Artificial Scene Library (ASL)

    25 May 2021

    The ASL function allows users to directly use the L1B product version 7 by mimicking the Gibbs-2 image reconstruction correction algorithm as it is implemented in the level 1 operational processor.

  • BioPAL

    6 May 2021

    The Biomass Product Algorithm Laboratory (BioPAL) is an open-source scientific computing project, supporting the development of ESA's Biomass mission algorithms coded in Python.