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• News - Infographics

  

  Explore sample data products from Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of over 50 satellite missions from commercial and public organisations worldwide.

• Data - Sample Data (Open)

  

  SkySat Sample Data

  Download free SkySat sample datasets to preview products available for this mission.

• News - General News

  

  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.

• News - Data Release news

  

  Sample data products from ESA’s Third Party Missions

  Samples of data products from a range of Third Party Missions are now available to download, offering a preview of what these missions provide.

• 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.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Earth Online Visuals

  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.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past

  Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Monitoring the health of wheat crops from space

  Very high resolution space data can be used to improve the detection of a plant disease that impacts a major global cereal crop.

• News - General News

  

  3D Earth Online Visuals application takes off

  A new app has just been launched, enabling you to explore ESA’s satellite missions in 3D and providing a new perspective on how satellite data contribute to our understanding of Earth systems, the climate, and their interactions.

• 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

  

  Commercial space data help to regreen grasslands in Africa

  Commercial satellite imagery made available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme is guiding an ambitious community-focused initiative to regrow natural grasslands in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• News - Spotlight on EO community

  

  An overview of the Biomass mission

  In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's upcoming Biomass mission.

• News - Spotlight on EO community

  

  Introducing the Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager

  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.

• News - General News

  

  International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.

• News - General News

  

  Pioneering science missions: Summarising ESA’s Earth Explorers

  Designed for research purposes, ESA's Earth Explorer missions are dedicated to monitoring parts of Earth’s system. Learn more about the Earth Explorers in this video.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data

  ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.

• News - Infographics

  

  An overview of ESA's Biomass Earth Explorer satellite

  Learn about ESA's upcoming Biomass mission, which is dedicated to gathering information about the global distribution of forest biomass, in our latest infographic.

• Document - Data Access Information

  

  ESA-archive-third-party-mission-collections.pdf

  Discover the ESA archive data collections offered for the Third Party Missions programme.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Studying forest biomass from space

  Forestry expert Maurizio Santoro, senior researcher at Gamma Remote Sensing and one of the leaders of ESA projects related to the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), explains how the use of various data.

• Event - Workshop

  

  11th International Workshop on PolInSAR and Biomass

  Organised by ESA, the workshop will be held at Espaces Vanel Toulouse, France on the 19 - 23 June 2023