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Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: EUSI
7 May 2024
European Space Imaging (EUSI) is one of ESA’s suppliers of commercial Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for scientific research in Earth Observation (EO).
Meet the Earth Online Editorial & Graphics Services Team
4 Apr 2024
The Earth Online Editorial Service produces diverse publications, which facilitate ESA and TPM data discovery and exploitation, ensuring that the website maintains a returning and ever-growing user base.
Introducing the Earth Observation Principal Investigators Team
9 Nov 2023
Third Party Missions (TPMs) are Earth Observation (EO) missions that are owned or operated by other agencies. ESA has an agreement with these third parties to distribute data products from their missions to scientific users, or for services in pre-operational phases.
An overview of the EarthCARE mission
19 Oct 2023
In this video, meet Björn Frommknecht, Mission Manager of ESA's upcoming EarthCARE satellite.
Introducing the EarthCARE Mission Manager
12 Oct 2023
In this video, Björn Frommknecht describes his role as Mission Manager of EarthCARE, and what he enjoys most about his involvement with this upcoming Earth Explorer.
An overview of the SMOS mission
4 July 2023
In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission.
Meet the Quality Assurance for EO Team
30 June 2023
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.
An overview of the Biomass mission
27 June 2023
In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's upcoming Biomass mission.
Introducing the Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager
20 June 2023
In this video, Klaus Scipal describes his role as Mission Manager of Biomass and SMOS, and what he enjoys about his involvement with these dedicated science missions.
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.
An overview of the Aeolus mission
19 Apr 2023
In this overview video, ESA's mission manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes the successes and challenges of this amazing mission, whose impacts will live long beyond its lifetime in space.
Introducing the Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager
29 Mar 2023
In this video, Tommaso Parrinello - CryoSat Mission Manager - talks about ESA's ice mission and some of its achievements after more than 10 years of operations.
Introducing the Aeolus and CryoSat missions
24 Mar 2023
In this video, Tommaso Parrinello - Mission Manager of Aeolus and CryoSat - describes what is involved in managing the missions and the unique challenges offered by such innovative satellites.
Introducing Tommaso Parrinello
17 Mar 2023
In this short introduction, ESA's Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes his role in these two diverse missions.
Introducing the TPM Ground Segment Operational Team
6 Mar 2023
Third Party Missions (TPMs) are Earth Observation (EO) missions that are not owned or operated by ESA. The agency has an agreement with these third parties to distribute data products from their missions to scientific users, or for services in pre-operational phases.
Meet the EOHelp Team
9 Feb 2023
The Earth Observation Help Desk, or EOHelp, together with Copernicus services, is the main ESA contact point for Earth Observation user communities.
Meet a young researcher who studies the behaviour of volcanoes worldwide
22 Sept 2022
Researcher Camila Novoa Lizama, of the University of Leeds, recently analysed how the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery over the Puyehue Cordón-Caulle Volcanic Complex, in Chile, acquired by ALOS-1, Envisat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites, helped her team to better comprehend the temporal and spatial behaviour of ground displacements before, during and after the volcano’s last eruption.
Meet the Manager of the Earthnet TPM Programme
11 May 2022
Peggy Fischer is the Manager of the Earthnet TPM Programme and the Mission Manager of ESA Third Party Missions (TPMs).
Meet a young researcher who uses Aeolus data to measure atmospheric gravity waves
22 Apr 2022
Researcher Timothy Banyard, from the University of Bath, hopes to improve weather forecasting through the measurement of gravity waves (GWs). While GWs are difficult to measure due to their scale size and location, Tim recently demonstrated the Earth Explorer Aeolus' ability to observe GWs over the Southern Andes during the austral winter of 2021.
Interviewing Mirko Albani
12 Apr 2022
ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.