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Browse through mission documentation and reports, and learn more about European Space Agency Earth Observation projects and opportunities.

  • Document - General Reference

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    11 June 2021

    CEOS-Sustainable-Development-The-Space-Contribution-Paper.pdf

    This Fact Sheet examines the Committee on Earth Observation Satellite's (CEOS) activities in the field of sustainable development through the use of space technology.

  • Document - General Reference

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    11 June 2021

    Coastal-Altimetry-and-CoastAlt.pdf

    This flyer describes the ESA funded CoastAlt project, whose main objective was to contribute to the transition of pulse-limited coastal altimetry toward a mature, pre-operational phase.

  • Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

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    11 June 2021

    CEOS-Working-Group-Calibration-and-Validation.pdf

    This document describes the Committee on Earth Observation Satellite's involvement in Calibration and Validation activities for Earth Observation satellites.

  • Document - General Reference

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    1 Mar 2019

    Earth-Observation-and-Remote-Sensing-accompanying-materials.pdf

    This education document describes Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, and is intended for high school level students. The document is availably only in German.

  • Document - General Reference

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    14 Apr 2014

    The Living Planet - Observing the Earth - The Earth Observation programme

    This brochure provides an overview of ESA's Living Planet Strategy, an Earth Observation programme approved in 1999.

  • Document - General Reference

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    14 Apr 2014

    The Data User Element

    This brochure describes ESA's Data User Element (DUE) programme, which aims to bring together user communities and actors from research institutes, industrial companies and other specialised fields. This collaborative approach ensures the transfer of valid and high quality demonstration products into sustainable environments which meet the practical and operational needs of the user communities .

  • Document - General Reference

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    21 Mar 2014

    Satellites-for-the-Environment-and-Development.pdf

    This brochure describes the European Space Agency's contribution to the Environment and Development, through the use of satellites. It is written in French.

  • Document - General Reference

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    21 Mar 2014

    River-and-Lake-Project.pdf

    This flyer describes ESA's River and Lake project, which aims to provide the scientific community with easy-to-use, effective and accurate river and lake height measurements from the ERS-2, TOPEX/Poseidon, Envisat, Jason-1 and Jason-2 radar altimeters.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    31 Jan 2013

    Proceedings-of-Dragon-2-Final-Results-and-Dragon-3-kick-off-Symposium.pdf

    This document presents the proceedings from the Dragon 2 Final Results and Dragon 3 kick-off Symposium held 25-29 June 2012 in Beijing, P. R. China.

  • Document - General Reference

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    31 Aug 2012

    ESAs-magnetic-field-mission-swarm-facts-and-figures.pdf

    This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.151.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    31 July 2012

    First-Sentinel-2-Preparatory-Symposium.pdf

    Proceedings of the First Sentinel-2 Preparatory Symposium held on 23-27 April 2012 in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

  • Document - General Reference

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    30 Mar 2012

    ESA-SOLAS-&-EGU-Joint-Conference-Earth-Observation-for-Ocean-Atmosphere-Interactions-Science.pdf

    The aim of this document is to report to ESA ESRIN the results of the workshop entitled "Developing the EO supply chain with ESA missions" which was held on 8-9 April 1999, at ESA ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.

  • Document - General Reference

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    31 Dec 2011

    Eduspace-Earth-Observation-for-Students.pdf

    This flyer gives information on the e-learning platform for Earth Observation methods and applications targeted to students. See the related website for activities and initiatives.

  • Document - General Reference

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    31 Dec 2011

    ESAs-Eye-on-Earth.pdf

    This brochure describes ESA's Earth-observing activities carried out at ESRIN (in Frascati, Italy), the European centre of excellence for exploitation of Earth observation missions.

  • Document - General Reference

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    31 Dec 2010

    Forest-Carbon-Tracking-Taking-stock-of-our-forests.pdf

    This document describes the Forest Carbon Tracking (FCT) initiative of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The initiative aims to provide accurate data and robust tools for countries aiming to monitor and assess their stocks of forest carbon.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    31 Oct 2010

    Dragon-2-Programme-Mid-Term-Results-2008-2010.pdf

    Proceedings of the 2010 Dragon Symposium held from 17-21 May 2010 in Guilin City, P.R. China.

  • Document - General Reference

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    31 May 2010

    GMES-Space-Component-status-and-challenges.pdf

    This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.142.

  • Document - General Reference

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    1 Jan 2010

    Understanding climate change from space

    This document describes ESA's Climate Change Initiative, and how it is intended to contribute towards monitoring and understanding the Earth's climate.

  • Document - General Reference

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    30 Nov 2009

    New-possibilities-for-science-ESAs-operational-Sentinel-missions.pdf

    This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr. 140.

  • Document - General Reference

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    30 June 2008

    The-CEOS-Earth-Observation-Handbook-2008.pdf

    This report presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications, and a systematic overview of present and planned Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) agency Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments. It also explores society's increasing need for information on our planet. This edition has a particular focus on climate change.