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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
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News - Success Stories
Transforming space data into climate action
ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance – 20 June 2022
A planned software maintenance activity will affect some of ESA's data dissemination services on 20 June 2022.
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News - Events and Proceedings
News - Events and Proceedings
QA4SM Evolution in FRM4SM presented at sixth Soil Moisture Validation Workshop
The use and distribution of EO Soil Moisture (SM) data calls for rigorous, automated quality assessment procedures.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS reprocessed Sea Surface Wind Speed dataset is now available
The entire SMOS L1B archive has been reprocessed with the latest version of the Sea Surface Wind Speed processor V300 which was deployed into the SMOS wind near real time service in August 2021.
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News - Events and Proceedings
News - Events and Proceedings
Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium
Against the backdrop of the famed Rhine River, world-class scientists and Earth observation data-users are gathered this week in the historical city of Bonn, at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS).
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News - General News
News - General News
Interviewing Mirko Albani
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.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity product validation report is now available.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
10 years of Envisat data help to illuminate ocean processes
A decade after Envisat beamed its final image to the planet, the pioneering ESA mission is continuing to foster improved understanding of Earth’s systems.
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News - General News
News - General News
Introducing Mirko Albani
In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
How space data are transforming the global food system
European Earth observation activities are accelerating a data-driven transformation in the agriculture sector that is helping farmers adapt to the dual challenges of climate change and population increase.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance 08 February 2022
A software maintenance affecting the ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination service has been planned on Tuesday 08 February 2022, from 08:30 to 11:30 UTC.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
The reprocessed SMOS level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness products over the Arctic are now available from the ESA SMOS Dissemination Service.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
SMOS dissemination service maintenance on 10 January 2022
SMOS dissemination service maintenance on 10 January 2022
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News - General News
News - General News
Updated SMOS documentation available
Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance 20 December 2021
A software maintenance affecting the ERS and Envisat (A)SAR dissemination services has been planned on Monday 20 December 2021, from 08:30 to 10:30 UTC.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Ship trails in the Bay of Biscay observed using PROBA-V imagery
Ship trails have been perceived as convincing evidence of aerosol-cloud interaction. Ship emissions have been proven to contribute by about 1.9% and 2.9% to the increase in the global total and fine-mode aerosol optical thickness (AOT) respectively over a five year period (Peters et al. 20212).
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness Arctic winter season 2021/2022 data available
SMOS Sea Ice thickness level 3 and level 4 data products are now available for the Arctic winter season 2021/2022.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance – 22 - 24 November 2021
A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's data dissemination services from Monday 22 November to Wednesday 24 November 2021.