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  • Showcasing ESA's HEDAVI Earth observation tool

    ESA's HEDAVI (HEritage DAta VIsualiation) is a platform that allows users to freely access over 40 years of ESA Earth observation Heritage, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.

  • Eruption of Stromboli Volcano, 2014

    View the 2014 eruption of Stromboli through the Landsat 8 satellite image.

  • Oroville Dam Crisis (California), 2017

    View the impact of early February 2017 storms on Oroville Dam through Landsat satellite images.

  • Zurich's Urban Evolution: A Satellite Perspective from 1985 to 2004

    View the urban transformation of Zurich over 19 years through Landsat 5 satellite images

  • Fires in Rome, Castel Fusano (Italy), 2000

    Explore a Landsat satellite image revealing the extent of burnt areas within the Castel Fusano pine-wood in 2000.

  • Aktau's Urban Evolution: A Satellite Perspective from 1988 to 2015

    Explore the evolution of Aktau, Kazakhstan, through satellite images captured by Landsat 5 and 8.

  • Adam's Bridge Evolution: A Satellite Perspective from 2006 to 2018

    Discover the evolution of Adam's Bridge, the land connection between India and Sri Lanka, through satellite images.

  • Karachi's Urban Evolution: A Satellite Perspective from 1989 to 2018

    Discover the evolution of Karachi over 29 years through satellite images captured by Landsat 5 and 8.

  • Red Sea: A Satellite Perspective from 1984 to 2004

    Explore Landsat 5 imagery showcasing the evolving landscapes along the coasts of Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia by the Red Sea.

  • Florence's Urban Evolution: A Satellite Perspective from 1987 to 2015

    Uncover Florence's evolution from 1987 to 2015 through Landsat 5 and 8 satellite images.

  • Saint Petersburg 25 Years in Satellite View

    Discover the evolution of Saint Petersburg over 25 years through satellite images captured by Landsat 5 and 8.

  • Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering

    ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.

  • Cloud-free collections key for land monitoring

    Satellite imagery is a crucially important tool for monitoring the land, but cloud cover can often block parts of Earth’s surface from view, limiting subsequent analyses.

  • Commercial and international data for fire monitoring

    As climate change sparks a surge in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, satellite data disseminated through ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are helping scientists to track and investigate these potentially damaging natural events.

  • ESA missions help to reveal worldwide lake water loss trend

    Climate change, human consumption and sedimentation are depleting more than half of the world’s biggest lakes of water, according to a ground-breaking analysis that drew on three decades of satellite data.

  • New Landsat RBV data collection opened to users

    ESA is pleased to announce that the Landsat RBV data collection has been opened to users.

  • Landsat RBV

    This dataset contains Landsat 3 Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) products, acquired by ESA by the Fucino ground station over its visibility mask. The data (673 scenes) are the result of the digitalization of the original 70 millimetre (mm) black and white film rolls. The RBV instrument was mounted on board the Landsat 1 to 3 satellites between 1972 and 1983, with 80 metre resolution. Three independent co-aligned television cameras, one for each spectral band (band 1: blue-green, band 2: yellow-red, band 3: NIR), constituted this instrument. The RBV system was redesigned for Landsat 3 to use two cameras operating in one broad spectral band (green to near-infrared; 0.505–0.750 µm), mounted side-by-side, with panchromatic spectral response and higher spatial resolution than on Landsat 1 and Landsat 2. Each of the cameras produced a swath of about 90 km (for a total swath of 180 km), with a spatial resolution of 40 m.

  • Landsat 7 ETM+ European and Mediterranean Countries Cloud Free Collection

    This dataset contains the cloud-free products from Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper collection acquired over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East; for each scene only one product is selected, with the minimal cloud coverage. The Landsat 7 ETM+ scenes typically cover 185 x 170 km. A standard full scene is nominally centred on the intersection between a Path and Row (the actual image centre can vary by up to 100 m). The data are system corrected.

  • Landsat 5 TM European and Mediterranean Countries Cloud Free Collection

    This dataset contains the cloud-free products from Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper collection acquired over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East; for each scene only one product is selected, with the minimal cloud coverage. The acquired Landsat TM scene covers approximately 183 x 172.8 km. A standard full scene is nominally centred on the intersection between a path and row (the actual image centre can vary by up to 100 m). The data are system corrected.

  • How satellite data help to shape society

    Data from ESA’s Earth observation archives are improving understanding of the interactions between human activities and the environment, helping to power green economic development and boosting prosperity in Europe and beyond.