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• News - General News

  

  ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?

  Fundamental Data Records (FDRs) are instrumental in advancing our understanding of Earth systems and for addressing societal challenges effectively. These long-term records contain uncertainty-quantified, calibrated and geo-located multi-instrument/multi-platform satellite sensor data spanning several decades to support climate-related applications.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  ESA data dissemination maintenance – 10 April 2024

  A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA’s ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination service on 10 April 2024.

• News - How to guides

  

  HEDAVI Discover: a step-by-step guide

  The Heritage Data Visualisation tool (HEDAVI) is a platform developed by the French Science Consulting for Earth Observation group, VisioTerra, which allows users to freely access over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.

• Document - Newsletter

  

  Earth Online Newsletter - 23 February 2024

  This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  Celebrating ESA’s first small satellite with science success

  Scientists and data users gathered at a special workshop to celebrate the end of PROBA-1’s CHRIS sensor and discuss the results of this overachieving mission.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  ESA Data Dissemination Maintenance - 8 February 2024

  A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination service on Thursday 8 February 2024.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Space data support Earth’s ecosystems

  ESA’s Earth observation (EO) missions are making a critical contribution to monitoring transformations in our planet’s ecosystems, helping track changes in the vegetation, soil, and ocean that affect these systems.

• News - Operational News

  

  Change of access to FTP-S for ERS and Envisat atmospheric and low-rate data

  As of 13 December 2023, access to a series of ERS and Envisat atmospheric and low rate data collections changed from simple FTP to FTP-S.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Discover Earth like never before: the HEDAVI tool

  The Heritage Data Visualisation tool, or HEDAVI, enables the analysis of global spatio-temporal dynamics of natural and artificial environments, covering over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  Workshop celebrates end of long-running PROBA-1 satellite

  In January, ESA will mark the end of its long-running CHRIS sensor onboard the PROBA-1 satellite in a special workshop.

• Event - Workshop

  

  PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop

  The PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop will take place from 18-19 January 2024 in Ghent, Belgium.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Tracking the world’s forests from space

  As human activities continue to threaten the planet’s forests, data delivered by satellites are boosting global efforts to conserve these crucial natural resources.

• News - Success Stories

  

  New cross-calibration readies PROBA-1 data for climate research

  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.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Envisat data show how volcanoes communicate with each other

  Using radar data from ESA’s Envisat mission, scientists have recently proven the elastic interaction between two Hawaiian volcanoes.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Remote sensing data underpin research on soil

  Environmental data disseminated by ESA’s Earth observation programmes provide knowledge about the stresses on Earth’s soils – aiding many applications such as crop management, drought and flood forecasting, and ecosystem protection.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Envisat delivers a decade of insights into ocean oil slicks

  More than ten years after it beamed its final image back to Earth, ESA’s Envisat satellite is still helping to investigate and address key societal and environmental challenges.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  How scientists use space data to help advance the energy transition

  Scientists are using remote sensing data disseminated by ESA to support the green transformation of world’s power generation infrastructure.

• Document - Product Document

  

  ATSR-Level-1B-ERn-AT-1-RBT-Product-Notices-Readme

  This Readme file contains the Product Notice (PN) information for the ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 Level 1B products:

• News - Operational News

  

  PROBA-1 - End of CHRIS acquisitions

  The CHRIS instrument onboard PROBA-1 successfully ended its operational phase in December 2022 and will no longer acquire images.

• News - How to guides

  

  Quick guide to Data Service Request submission

  Follow this quick guide to learn how to submit a Data Service Request, which is required when applying for level zero (A)SAR data from ESA's European Remote Sensing satellites (ERS) and the Envisat mission.