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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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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 - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New CryoSat-2 Quaternions Product Now Available
As of 24 June 2022, ESA has started releasing a new CryoSat-2 Quaternions Product. This product contains the attitude quaternions in the Geocentric Mean of 2000 Inertial Coordinate Frame for the CryoSat-2 mission.
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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 - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
New one-stop-shop for ESA and NASA altimetry data
cs2eo.org is a free, easy-to-use portal to explore, combine and download airborne and spaceborne altimetry data from CryoSat-2, ICESat-2, CryoVEx, IceBridge and CryoTEMPO-EOLIS.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
Updated CryoSat magnetometer data now available with new baseline 0201
An improved version of the CryoSat magnetic field data is now available on the Swarm Dissemination Server with new baseline 0201.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
Partial CryoSat LRM Ice Baseline E reprocessing completed
An issue on the LRM waveform scaled power introduced in Baseline D, affecting the computation of backscatter, has been resolved with the transfer to operation of the new Ice Baseline E processors on 20 September 2021.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
CryoSat Science Server FTP access resumed
Access to the CryoSat Science Server FTP interface is now restored after urgent maintenance.
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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
LRM Ice Baseline E reprocessed data released
An issue on the LRM waveform scaled power introduced at Baseline D, affecting the computation of backscatter, has been resolved
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Delay in the production of Cryo-TEMPO EOLIS operational data
An issue with the operational processing of Cryo-TEMPO EOLIS monthly data has been discovered.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New CryoSat-2 Thematic Products Now Available
As of January 2022, ESA has started releasing new CryoSat-2 Thematic Products, dedicated to five distinct areas: Sea Ice, Land Ice, Polar Oceans, Coastal Oceans and Inland Waters.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Retrieving Snow Depth Over Sea Ice Using Dual-Frequency Altimetric Measurements
A new study from the sea ice team of the Laboratory of Space Geophysical and Oceanographic Studies (LEGOS) in Toulouse has shown that dual-frequency SARAL and CryoSat-2 altimetric measurements can be used to retrieve consistent snow depth data over sea ice in both hemispheres.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CryoSat anomaly
Due to an on-going problem at platform level the Near Real Time (NRT) service for CryoSat data is suspended.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
COP26 fuels interest in satellite data
As COP26 stimulates action to reduce global warming, the essential role of satellite data in understanding and monitoring climate change is apparent.
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News - Success Stories
CryoTEMPO-EOLIS Products Now Available for Iceland, Svalbard, and the Canadian Arctic
Land-ice is declining globally, raising sea levels worldwide and impacting glacial risks and access to fresh-water in high-mountain glaciers regions. Land-ice monitoring via Earth Observation methods in general, and altimetry in particular, are essential for tracking the current status of ice volume change and its evolution as climate continues to evolve and mitigating actions are being pursued.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CryoSat NRT availability period reduced
CryoSat scientific users are informed that the persistence time of the Near Real Time (NRT) products on the Science Server will be reduced from 60 days to 42 days.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Unavailability of the CryoSat data dissemination and circulation systems
CryoSat scientific users are informed that on 11 November 2021 maintenance is planned on the access network to the CryoSat circulation and dissemination servers.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
CryoSat's Swath Processing Technique
For more than 30 years, satellite radar altimetry has been used to continuously monitor the state of the cryosphere and to investigate the impact of global warming on sea level rise. Owing to this, maps of ice sheet elevation and elevation change were derived.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
New Ice Baseline E and Near Real Time Processors
On 20 September 2021, the new CryoSat Ice Baseline-E processors have been installed into operations within the CryoSat Payload Data Segment (PDS).
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination - Maintenance on 17 August 2021
Due to a scheduled software patching campaign on 17 August, a series of data dissemination services will experience a short downtime.